‘We feared our five stolen dogs would be dead’

A couple from Solihull have been reunited with their dogs which were feared lost forever when their car and trailer was stolen.

Tina Kazmi’s partner Andy was out with their five dogs delivering hay when his Land Rover was taken in Wythall, Worcestershire, at about 14:20 GMT on Sunday.

Three of the Jack Russells, which had been in the trailer, were found traumatised on Sunday night in the middle of the road, slowing down traffic.

A fourth was discovered by a vet, before the last dog Tink, a German shepherd finally turned up on Monday evening, as well as the car.

Ms Kazmi told the BBC the couple had been most worried about Tink as she was the youngest and was never out of her owners’ sight.

“We were besides ourselves, worrying about where she is and what they’ve done with her or what people’s intentions are,” she said.

“She goes everywhere with my partner, if she’s not in the car she’ll be out with him in the tractor.”

After their disappearance on Sunday afternoon, she said one dog was found “shook up and quiet distressed” by a vet in Wythall.

The other three Jack Russells were abandoned in the middle of the road in Aspley Heath, Solihull, too scared to move.

“It was coincidental a friend had overheard a woman talking about some dogs which wouldn’t move out of the road, he went right over and managed to move them and get them back to us,” Ms Kazmi said.

She described the dogs being “quieter, reserved and very tired” since coming back home.