Pet theft: what can you do to stop it?

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With over 30,000 pets stolen in the last decade, we’re asking people around Cardiff for their thoughts on the crime, and what they think should be done about it.

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00:00Nobody want to try and touch my dogs. I've got three dogs in my house.

00:03I'm a dog lover, so, yeah, people should be punished for it.

00:06Same as cruelty. There's too much of it.

00:09People should adopt it and don't shop.

00:11For one, I don't really know what kind of person you have to be

00:13to steal someone's pet. It's a bit... Well, it's awful, really.

00:16Um, I don't know if there's any laws that they could enforce with that.

00:20It's a bit of a tricky one. Not really my expertise,

00:23but I suppose just, like, chipping animals, like they do anyways,

00:27and keeping hollers on them.

00:28Cos it's like, it's people, it's like gangs going round,

00:33and have you heard about where they're putting crosses?

00:38And they're putting them crosses on houses,

00:40or they're putting them up on fences, walls and stuff like that.

00:44Letting their buddies know that there's a dog there.

00:48And that's, yeah, they're stealing them to breed them.

00:51I can't see me. It's terrible, it is. It's shocking, really.

00:56People go out stealing dogs, and they just take them, like.

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