Kids empty piggy banks to offer £500 reward and plead: please help fin

Jack Russell Ronnie went missing two weeks ago after witnesses saw a “tall white man” putting the dog into a white hatchback and driving off. Morgan, 16, Ginny, 11, Molly, nine, William,

eight, Adam, six, Joe, five, Dotty, three, and two-year-old Charlie have pooled all their pennies. Mother Linde Cantrell and father Adam Shaw have scoured the internet, put up posters and

driven for miles in search of the stolen animal. The disappearance of the eightmonth-old white and tan pooch has hit little Charlie hardest. Linde, 31, said: “She belongs to all of them, but

she really became little Charlie’s dog, they spend all their time together. “They really were inseparable. I’ve never seen a dog love a child so much. “Ronnie follows her around everywhere,

she eats with her and even goes to bed with her. “This is heartbreaking, it’s like our lives have been put on hold since Ronnie disappeared.” Ronnie went missing from near the family’s

dairy farm in Endon, Staffordshire, on the afternoon of June 28. It soon became clear something sinister had happened. CCTV on the lane by the farm captured images of a white Citroen Picasso

that the family are now desperate to trace. Linde added: “We had £300 that we thought about putting up as a reward. But when the kids found out they wanted to help. “They took the money

from their piggy banks and said they wanted the money they would get for Christmas and their birthdays put into the pot. “We tried to say they didn’t have to but they wouldn’t take no for an

answer.”