Twiglet the dachshund back home after theft video shared

A canine stolen from its location has been returned aft a video of Wednesday's theft was wide publicised.

Twiglet, a dachshund, was snatched by a thief who smashed a patio doorway astatine a location successful Essex.

Police released footage of the canine struggling to get distant from the thief, who was believed to person sold her on.

Owner Jo Vindis said it was their "worst nightmare" erstwhile she was stolen but they were "elated" to beryllium reunited with Twiglet connected Thursday.

"Without the video we astir apt would ne'er person seen her again".

"Well, we bash emotion our dogs, don't we? I deliberation it conscionable resonated with everyone with a dog, oregon adjacent without, conscionable however idiosyncratic from your household - conscionable snatched retired of your location - it's conscionable horrible," she said.

The break-in happened astatine the owner's location successful the hamlet of Catmere End adjacent Saffron Walden astatine astir 15:00 BST.

"Our neighbours were circular the location wrong a fewer minutes of the alarm going off, but he'd already taken her astatine that point," said Ms Vindis.

"It looks arsenic though that's what helium was after. Nothing other was taken."

Posting connected a lost-and-found dogs Facebook group, the owners wrote: "We can't convey everyone capable for each of the posts and reposts and sound that has meant that she astir apt did go 'too blistery to handle'.

"We are blown distant by however astonishing radical person been and privation to convey you each so, truthful much."

Ms Vindis told BBC Essex that aft the theft the mates had been "trying to enactment affirmative and hopeful", but she said successful the backmost of her caput she did not deliberation they would get Twiglet back.

The 16-month-old favored was returned aft "a tip-off that came acknowledgment to each of the coverage".

"Someone contacted america and said they thought the canine they had bought was Twiglet, and that's benignant of arsenic overmuch arsenic we know, but the investigations are ongoing truthful we're hopeful that the idiosyncratic who took her volition beryllium caught," she said.

She said the mates felt "elation" astatine getting their canine back, but besides "disbelief that it happened astatine each - evidently we haven't fto her retired of our sight".

"Twiglet seems her mean self, but she was rather shaken past nighttime - she doesn't look excessively traumatised by it all," she added.

Essex Police said inquiries remained ongoing and nary arrests had been made astatine this stage.

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