Make dog theft a criminal offence with custodial sentence and hefty fines.

Every day we read about another dog stolen, the heartbreak that families & individuals are going through. The hours spent distrubuting leafts, posters for just some hint of where their pet maybe. In one area alone, I have hears of 3 cockers missing within a matter of days of each other. Coincidence? At a dog walking area: reports of people walking with a lead and no dog, on one occasion, a young lad confronted the "walker" because it was his dog that had was now on the empty lead.