Sick troll targets household claiming lacking canine is alive and being abused

A distraught household has been focused by a sick troll who claimed their lacking dog was alive and being abused.

Seven-month-old Dachshund Milo was out with a canine walker at round 11am on December 8 and ran away after listening to a loud “gunshot” noise close to Woodland woods East Lothian, Scotland. The canine has been lacking since.

Owners Nikki and Ciaran, who reside with their two youngsters in Pencaitland, are determined to seek out Milo and hope he’ll return home quickly. The household mentioned they’ve acquired assist from locals as they proceed looking for their canine, however this week they mentioned a prankster known as them making claims about their lacking pet, which compounded their sense of loss.

Nikki mentioned her youngsters are those struggling essentially the most since Milo – that she described as “, pleasant puppy who adored his household” disappeared. She informed Edinburgh Live: “Milo was out walking with the canine walker at Woodhall picnic web site in Ormiston when he heard gunshots and ran off, he is not been seen since.

“We are completely heartbroken as are our kids who’re aged six and eight. We get up most days with hope we’ll get a cellphone name or message to say somebody had our boy and if somebody has took him we might love for him to be returned and no questions requested. We simply need him home.

“Milo was 5 months old when he went lacking. He will now be coming as much as seven months old. He was such , pleasant puppy who adored his household a lot. He liked the children to bits.”

On Wednesday, Nikki and Ciaran had been left “dissatisfied and upset” after they acquired a prank name saying that Milo had been noticed. After a back-and-forth of messages, Ciaran quickly realised that the person who had contacted them was mendacity about their sighting.

He wrote on social media: “Does anybody recognise this quantity? Sounded like a teenage lady. They phoned me to say that that they had noticed Milo in Ormiston. Unfortunately, my spouse and I aren’t within the nation or else I’d have simply went alongside immediately.

“Before I phoned a member of the family to ask them to go alongside, I requested if they may perhaps get a photograph of him. Clearly judging by the images they despatched, their supposed ‘sighting’ was one in every of our lacking canine posters.

“While it’s disappointing and upsetting getting a prank name to inform us our canine has been noticed after almost seven weeks of being lacking, what’s extra disgusting is after I pulled the person up in regards to the photograph I used to be informed to f*** off and that my canine has most likely been r****.

“I’m not fussed for understanding the title of the person accountable however wish to assume that if anybody recognises this quantity as their kid’s then they may deal with this with them.”

The East Lothian household are determined to be reunited with their canine. Nikki mentioned: “Milo has a particular bald patch on his proper hand facet the place his whiskers are and has a white line of hair down his chest.”