Moor search after dog escapes Addingham kennels

A Yorkshire dog owner is searching moorland for her pet after it escaped from the kennels it was staying at while she was on holiday.

Becky Roberts took her lurcher-greyhound cross Betsy to Wharfedale Kennels and Cattery on Addingham Moorside, West Yorkshire, on Saturday (27 August).

Half an hour after dropping the dog off, at about 10:30am, she received a call saying Betsy had jumped over a fence and gone missing.

Roberts told the BBC: “She is fairly small and is distinctive in colour. She is brindle and her markings look like zebra print and she has a pink collar.

“She is very unlikely to come if called, she is more likely to run further. She’s a very nervous dog and very fast, and we have no idea which direction she will head in. She could cover a lot of ground very quickly.”

A spokeswoman for the kennels told the BBC that staff were helping in the search.