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Missing dog Sylvia found drowned after Anglesey helicopter search | Missing dog Sylvia found drowned after Anglesey helicopter search |
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A missing dog whose owner hired a helicopter to look for her has been found drowned a few miles from where she disappeared on Anglesey. | A missing dog whose owner hired a helicopter to look for her has been found drowned a few miles from where she disappeared on Anglesey. |
Sylvia, a Japanese Shiba Inu, was discovered in the sea by a dog walker at the western entrance of the Menai Strait near Caernarfon on Saturday. | |
She had vanished on Newborough beach on the island's west coast a week ago. | She had vanished on Newborough beach on the island's west coast a week ago. |
Her owner Janice Bannister had spent £750 hiring a helicopter to search the area. | Her owner Janice Bannister had spent £750 hiring a helicopter to search the area. |
People from all over the UK joined her on Saturday to help look for Sylvia after her story attracted huge support, while a facebook campaign was started to help find her. | People from all over the UK joined her on Saturday to help look for Sylvia after her story attracted huge support, while a facebook campaign was started to help find her. |
"We were all out looking for her when the news came though that she had been found," said Mrs Bannister, of Telford, Shropshire. | |
"We were all devastated. The coastguards were out searching with us at the time but they went to the point where she was found - a very treacherous place - and they carried her back to me in a blanket. | |
"She's at home with us now and we're going to bury her." | |
Mrs Bannister said she had been comforted by the "thousands" of messages she had received on social media and now wants to raise money for the coastguards in the area. | |
She also hopes to have a memorial bench for Sylvia on Newborough beach, if she is given permission. | |
"I really want to put something back into the local community because they have been so good and without the coastguards I wouldn't have had any closure.," she added. | |
"We're determined to make sure she didn't die in vain." |
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