Hot dogs
The social media post has become all too familiar: a picture of a dog, an appeal, a phone number, the details of the crime. The comments, too, are depressingly recognisable — promises to share, pictures of similar-looking dogs found online, condolences. The theft of gundogs has become part of the way of life for people involved in shooting.
Last month Shooting Times reported on the case of Emily Kretz and her boyfriend Francis Bere, a gamekeeper, whose springer bitch was stolen from a kennel in Somerset (News, 19 February). Emily called the theft “a punch to the heart”. Tust a few weeks earlier, gamekeeper Reece Ronald had all four of his working dogs taken from his kennels.
The fact that gundogs are stolen is
