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Mudd the cocker spaniel has been missing for two months despite painstaking searches. <br />
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A distraught dog owner has put up a huge £8,000 reward in a last desperate bid to be reunited with his beloved missing pet.<br />
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Mudd, a four and a half year old cocker spaniel, disappeared two months ago during a shoot at Stocks Reservoir in Slaidburn, Lancs.<br />
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The working dog ran over a bank to retrieve a bird and has not been seen since.<br />
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Owner Phil Gunning, 71, a retired police inspector, has gone to extraordinary lengths to find Mudd, carrying out a 'fingertip search' of the area. He has used hand-held thermal imagery equipment, which is typically for detecting foxes, and deployed drones to try to locate him.<br />
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Search parties totalling 30 people have covered 5,000 acres of moorland, with daily searches for the first week he was missing. Since then, Mr Gunning and the local gamekeeper have carried on scouring the area regularly, but their efforts have so far drawn a blank.

BNPS.co.uk (01202 558833)
Pic: PhilGunning/BNPS

Mudd the cocker spaniel has been missing for two months despite painstaking searches.

A distraught dog owner has put up a huge £8,000 reward in a last desperate bid to be reunited with his beloved missing pet.

Mudd, a four and a half year old cocker spaniel, disappeared two months ago during a shoot at Stocks Reservoir in Slaidburn, Lancs.

The working dog ran over a bank to retrieve a bird and has not been seen since.

Owner Phil Gunning, 71, a retired police inspector, has gone to extraordinary lengths to find Mudd, carrying out a 'fingertip search' of the area. He has used hand-held thermal imagery equipment, which is typically for detecting foxes, and deployed drones to try to locate him.

Search parties totalling 30 people have covered 5,000 acres of moorland, with daily searches for the first week he was missing. Since then, Mr Gunning and the local gamekeeper have carried on scouring the area regularly, but their efforts have so far drawn a blank.