It was a moment of mad recklessness. I took one look around me, picked up my former neighbours cat, slipped him under a blanket on the back seat of my car and drove off.
It is every dog owner s nightmare - the sickening realisation a beloved pet has been snatched away by crooks - and the heartbreaking phenomenon seems to be getting worse.
Baby Moon was cruelly snatched from a field at Miller s Ark farm in Hampshire, on Monday - and now a £10,000 reward is being offered for its safe return