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Dawn Maw (42) is offering the six-figure sum to anyone with information that leads her to four-year-old dog Angel.
The German short-haired pointer was taken from a car park near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, while Mrs Maw was walking her and her three other dogs last month.
As she helped one of them into her car the driver of a white transit van grabbed Angel and threw her into the back of a vehicle before speeding off.
Mrs Maw called the police but so far officers have been unable to locate the culprit.
The mother of one has spent £3 000 distributing 15 000 posters, and 35 000 business cards, in her home town and has even hired a pet detective agency to find Angel, costing another £500.
With the help of her friends she has created a Facebook page, which convinced thousands of supporters to donate £3 000 to find the dog, who has won five champion titles at shows.
She has even created a video montage of pictures of Angel, set it to the song Angels, by Robbie Williams, and posted in to Youtube in the hope of finding her.
Mrs Maw has now taken out an extra £7 000 on the mortgage of her three-bedroomed detached house to increase the reward to £10 000.
It is the largest known reward ever offered for a missing pet, with the previous highest thought to have been £5 000.
Mrs Maw has now re-printed the posters with the lucrative reward on. Mrs Maw, who works as an investigator for the Department for Work and Pensions, said she had no qualms about stumping up the five-figure sum.
Mrs Maw, from Crawthorne, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, said: “Initially I was offering £3 000 which was made up of contributions by the sheer generosity of my Facebook friends.
“As a result I had a few calls from people claiming to know where Angel was but nothing came from them.
“So I decided to increase the fee because I am desperate to get my dog back and I thought the best and quickest way to do this was to remortgage the house to make the reward fee £10 000.
“My husband, Dominic, wasn’t happy about doing it at first but he’s accepting it more now because getting Angel back is the only way life is going to return to normal in our house.
“It means we have extended our mortgage from 15 years to 20 years.
“The £10 000 reward has only been public for a couple of days but I’m really hoping people will see the figure on offer and be encouraged to keep a lookout for Angel.
“The reward will be for her safe return or for information that leads directly to her. It will be paid in cash and I have no issues with that. I am simply determined to find her.
“I just want Angel back.
“I have already spent at least £3 000 myself on advertising and posters right across the UK to find her.”
Mrs Maw bought Angel for £700 when she was a puppy and is one of only two show and working champions of her breed in the country, which could be why she was targeted.
She has been microchipped and spayed and, unusually, still has a full-length tail which has not been docked.
Mrs Maw said: “I have no idea why she was taken because she can’t breed, so I expect someone knew she was a champion and thought ‘I want that dog’.
“I worry that whoever has taken her might have now docked her to make less noticeable, but we have blood samples from her relatives so we can prove it is her by DNA.
“Since she was taken I haven’t stopped looking for her. I contacted the police straight away and made a Facebook page and then contacted the pet detective. — Daily Mail.
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