Reward offered for safe return of dogs stolen from outside an Edinburgh Tesco

The owner of two Jack Russell terriers believed to have been stolen from outside an Edinburgh store has offered a reward for their safe return.
Saorsa and Indy have been missing since December 23 last year. Owner Dean Halliday is offering a reward for their safe return.Saorsa and Indy have been missing since December 23 last year. Owner Dean Halliday is offering a reward for their safe return.
Saorsa and Indy have been missing since December 23 last year. Owner Dean Halliday is offering a reward for their safe return.

Dean Halliday is offering up to £1000 to anyone who finds the dogs and gives them back to him, no questions asked.

The five year old dogs, named Saorsa and Indy, were last seen tied up outside the Tesco store in Nicolson Street in Newington on December 23 in the afternoon but have not been seen since.

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Mr Halliday said: “I took the dogs with me to Tesco and tied them up outside. Something happened in Tesco and so I just walked away and came home, I had actually forgotten I had taken the dogs with me. I had a few drinks and the next morning I realised the dogs were not in the house.

"As soon as I opened my eyes I just knew I had left them at the store. But when I went back the next morning the staff told me I had taken them away with me the previous day, but if I had done, I would have them! I have walked around Edinburgh ever since I got the dogs a few years ago and they don’t leave my hands.

"I don’t know what happened to them but the last I remember is that they were left tied up outside Tesco between 2 and 3pm.”

Since then Mr Halliday has posted various appeals on social media asking for people to keep a look out for the dogs and to contact him day or night if anyone has any information about them. He has also put up posters around Edinburgh appealing for information.

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He continued: “I have had them since a few weeks after they were born and they have never been away from me. They are sisters from a litter of six. The person who took them has no right to have held on to them.

"The reward will be paid to anyone who returns my dogs to me and there will be no questions asked. I have set up a crowd-funder for the reward and when it is all added up, it will be around £1000.”

Anyone who has seen Saorsa and Andy is being urged to contact Mr Halliday on 07476 935 360.

Mr Halliday’s dogs vanished during a spate of suspected dog thefts and attempted thefts across Lothian and elsewhere in Scotland as prices for pets soared during lockdown.

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Several high-value working dogs have been taken from estates and farms in Perthshire and the Highlands with one later found dumped in an industrial estate in the north of England.

And last week the Scottish SPCA revealed an impostor is feared to have been travelling the country posing as one of the charity’s inspectors – in a van with a fake logo on the side – attempting to remove animals from their owners.

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