Originally from: mona parr
                        
Hi Coleen
The person you met is doing a dangerous job--lots of unsavoury characters out there
I wonder how she/he gets to know about these informal sales
Horses were targetted in Kilmarnock just before Appleby but owners dogs woke her--people were riding horses away bareback but turned when she called them--thieves legged it. Suspect some go abroad via Ireland even. The only ones to be returned this year have been dumped as they were freezemarked.
Didnt realise so many dogs go missing
Doesnt get a lot of publicity
Mona