Heartbreak turns to joy as girl, seven, is reunited with stolen dog after tearful Facebook plea
A seven-year-old girl devastated at the theft of her young dog was delighted today after he was returned following a heartbreaking video-appeal to get him back.
Ellie-May Walton, from Bloxwich, could not hold back the tears as she filmed a desperate plea for thieves to return her 16-month-old Pomeranian Simba.
The Busill Jones Primary School pupil said on the video, which has been shared thousands of times, said: "I can't sleep without him, I want him back in his spot where he sits with me, sleeps with me."
But today, her family revealed via Facebook that Simba had been found, and released a new video showing a delighted Ellie-May.
She said: "To the people that stole Simba: 'Back at ya, because we've got him back home'."
Her family are convinced the young ginger-coloured dog was stolen yards away from their home on Central Drive on the Dudley Fields Estate in broad daylight last Friday afternoon between 3pm and 6pm.
Dad Phillip Walton, 26, said he and his wife Jessica, who is pregnant, and their three children Ellie-May, aged seven, Phillip, aged nine and Jacob, aged three, were all left shattered when Simba ran out of the front of their home for a matter of seconds but never returned.
He has been out on the streets looking for him ever since but has now been told by a neighbour that a man in a van picked the dog up and took him away.
Speaking before Simba's return, Mr Walton said: "We are all just devastated. I haven't slept properly or eaten properly since, because I have just been out searching for him every day."
