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Yorkshire family baffled by dog napping
A family have been left baffled and upset by the theft of their much-loved Yorkshire terrier by a motorist who bundled him into a car outside their remote home on the North York Moors.
Paul and Alison Wilson said the woman apparently complained she had nearly run over seven-year-old Wookie on a country road in Farndale.
Mr and Mrs Wilson said the driver was abusive to the 14-year-old son of the local estate owner as he was about to put the dog in a kennel.
The angry woman approached him and then left with Wookie in her car.
Hairdresser Mrs Wilson, 29, told the Gazette & Herald paper how she and her gamekeeper husband had not been at home at the time and the woman approached the teenager who was painting a fence.
She said he was so stunned he did not get a registration number, but he did see an Alsatian in the car.
She said the incident has been particularly hard on her two children, Ross, 11, and two-year-old Katie, who have been crying themselves to sleep.
She told the paper: "We are convinced it isn't anyone local who has taken Wookie because so many people know him.
"We do try to keep him in the garden area but he has been known to go down to the Feversham Arms which is about a mile away. He is so friendly - a lovely little character."
Mrs Wilson said the woman involved was about 20 to 30 with blonde hair, and was driving a small red car.
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