Cardiff and it’s Bay

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Image caption Working dogs, like cocker spaniels, are among the dogs most commonly stolen Only 3% of dog thefts in Wales since 2010 have resulted in someone being charged for the crime, according to figures from three Welsh police forces. More than 520 dogs were reported stolen but just 15 people were charged, the Freedom of Information data from the …

VIEW GALLERY Twelve cats have disappeared from Cardiff since the start of the year – but can you help find them? The UK Pet Register currently has a dozen felines from the city who have been missing since January 2015. The latest is Dobby, a black cat with a yellow collar. Dobby, a mixed breed, went missing on June 3 …

Losing a pet can be devastating for families. With the help of specialist websites like AnimalSearchUK more and more are being successfully reunited with their owners. But not all the animals that go missing are found straight away. Here are some still missing from Wales, and their owners are desperate for news of them. Maybe you’ve spotted one near you? …

Police sniffer dogs used in the search for Madeleine McCann and April Jones have joined the hunt for missing schoolgirl Alice Gross. The South Wales victim detection dogs are part of a huge team from more than 20 forces across the country trying to find the 14 year old, who has not been seen for more than a month. The …

A couple once accused of having “Dr Dolittle syndrome” have lost their appeals against conviction for flouting a lifetime ban on keeping animals. The RSPCA thought it had dealt with Glyndwr and Margaret Jones’ four-legged obsession in November 2002 when a court restricted them to a handful of cats, dogs and rabbits after they recovered 56 cats, 23 gerbils, 22 …

Esther Rantzen will be made a Dame in the New Year Honours List, according to reports. The television presenter and broadcaster is being rewarded for her years of charity work for the charity Childline, which she founded nearly three decades ago, when she was the host of magazine show ‘That’s Life!’ Childline, a free helpine for vulnerable children all over …

VIEW GALLERY   Britain’s first indoor dog-walking park has set tails wagging in our wettest city. More than 600 dog-lovers have joined the indoor centre to take their pampered pets for dry walks away from the wet and windy weather in Cardiff. The former steel warehouse has been turned into 20,000sq ft park in the Welsh capital where pet lovers …

  When dog-lover Shelley Redding’s beloved pooch Rocco was stolen, she came up with an ambitious plan to stop other owners going through the same heartbreak. The 37-year-old from Pontcanna was walking her Staffordshire bull terrier-cross on Llandaff Fields three months ago when he was stolen, after chasing a ball to the far end of the park. “I was sick …

VIEW GALLERY Arriving  at Cardiff Dogs’ Home you’ll be assailed by the sound of happy barking, plaintive barking and that special noise dogs make when they just want to say hello and have a bit of a banter. This is a place of contradictions. Like Christmas itself there is comfort and joy, but also sadness and loss. While lost dogs …