Last week, a nightmare became reality when a family’s little puppy was stolen from their yard.
Now that Angel is back home, Marshalette Oosthuizen Wilmot and her four-year-old daughter Marshaley couldn’t be happier. Marshalette says she was so desperate to find her stolen puppy that she would’ve done anything.
She says that the day before Angel was taken, another lady asked her for a puppy. “I told her that we weren’t selling because this was the last litter our dog was going to have, as we were taking her to be spayed,” said Marshalette.
That night, they heard someone at the gate and when they went to look, there was a man in their yard. Just then, Marshalette’s father arrived home and the man left the property.
The next day, they were approached by the same lady who had asked for a puppy. The lady asked how come she couldn’t have one when a man had just taken one of the puppies with him and walked off. “I was so scared, I just wanted our puppy to come back home!”
That’s when she posted on the Ladysmith Gazette Facebook page, asking everyone to help her find her lost Angel. The Ladysmith Gazette editorial team started to gather information and try to help find the stolen puppy. In an unlikely turn of events, advertising representative Anitha Persad, who was totally unaware of the missing dog, received a phone call from her husband to say that there was a man selling a puppy near where he worked. It was “so cute and had a pink collar”. Anitha told her husband that they had enough dogs, but when she returned home, she found this little puppy in her home.
The next day, once back at work, Anitha discussed the dog with her work colleagues. It was then that the photo of Marshalette’s stolen dog finally popped up in the inbox on the Ladysmith Gazette’s email. Two and two were put together and we realised that it was the same dog.
Within minutes, Marshalette was informed that the Ladysmith Gazette had found her daughter’s dog.
Twenty minutes later, Marshalette and Angel were reunited. A chain of events so unlikely that anyone reading this will be forced to conclude that there is such a thing as divine intervention, or at least a higher purpose or a guardian angel for Angel?
“When we got Angel back, her heart was pounding! But she is okay now,” says Marshalette. Marshaley and Angel spend their days playing with each other and watching movies together. “They are best friends! They are always together and they even share sweets,” says Marshalette. Angel is a Spaniel cross Chow Chow who is two months old.
