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How safe is that doggy in the garden?

ONE morning last May, gamekeeper Jon Gaunt of Brightling Park in East Sussex found his kennels had been broken into and three of his spaniels stolen. ‘The ordeal I’ve been through—that I’m still going through—is horrendous. It’s agony,’ he states. Mr Gaunt has since got one dog back and is desperately searching for another still missing; he believes the third was rescued during a police raid and is doing everything he can to get her home. ‘It’s a

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