Find my lost dogs and I will give you my car, pleads Frenchman

A man desperate to find his two lost dogs has offered an unusual reward for anyone who brings them back - his car, a Peugeot 107.

The dogs, two sisters named Tyna and Thaïs, are tricolour Brittany Spaniels with cut tails. They disappeared on January 7 and there has been no news of them since.

Owner Kevyne Deltour, 26, believes someone has them: “As there has been no news, I am sure someone has them. They might have been stolen, someone with no internet may have brought them in, anything is possible.”

He said that they are very friendly and approach people easily to receive affection.

Dogs disappeared through open gate

Mr Deltour, who lives in Saint-Hilaire-sur-Helpe (Nord), let the two dogs out to do their business at 8:30 on January 7. He realised that the gate was not closed but, at first, he was not too worried, as this had happened before and they would always find their way back home in around half an hour.

He realised that something was wrong when they did not show up later and started to search for them, going to all nearby places that might have them or might have seen them but there was no sign.

The next day, he contacted anyone who could potentially help: “I called dog shelters, police stations, all the nearby mairies, kennels, local communities, I called everyone I could.”

Getting the word out

Mr Deltour then had the idea of offering one of his cars, to encourage someone to come forward but also to get media attention.

The idea worked and he appeared on television to ask for any sightings of his dogs. However, he said that a lot of scammers have also contacted to try and con him out of the car.

The blue Peugeot 107 is worth around €3,400. “I do not care about the car, it is just money. It is the dogs that I care about,” he said.

His house has felt empty without Tyna and Thaïs: “They are always with us, always in the house. There is no way to describe our relationship, they are our part of the family.”

He got the dogs about a year and a half ago, when they were just two months old. He hunted regularly with the dogs as Brittany spaniels are hunting dogs.

Mr Deltour lives near the Belgian border. He thinks the dogs may have been taken there or even across the Channel to the UK, so he wants the word to get out as far as it possibly can: “If they were stolen, they could have been taken anywhere. I want the story to be spread.”

“The dogs were very sociable. They slept indoors and were always on the sofas. They were as friendly as they were affectionate,” he said.

If you see these two dogs, you can contact Mr Deltour at +33 6 34 50 90 74.

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