Ill Oakdale man's anger as beloved dog is stolen

9:40am Thursday 21st June 2012 in Gwent news By Will Bain

A SERIOUSLY ill Valleys man said he his dog stolen while he was out having kidney dialysis.

Brian Robinson, 56, from Oakdale, was having treatment at the Cardiff North Renal Dialysis Unit in Pentwyn in the city, when he says his seven-year-old border collie, Jack, was taken.

Mr Robinson, who suffered a stroke 18-months-ago and has also been hospitalised with a heart murmur, left his home to go for the dialysis treatment he receives three times a week at about 1.15pm having bathed his dog.

But when he returned at around 7pm, Jack, who he received as a 49th birthday present, and his blankets and food bowls had gone.

The dog lives outside the house and has never run away before, leading Mr Robinson to believe he was stolen and has reported the matter to police.

A devastated Mr Robinson, said: "I knew something was up as soon as I got back because normally he is waiting for me, but he wasn't there."

Every Friday I get back from dialysis and then I take him over in the car to a caravan I bought with my friends, Kevin Hopkins and Byron Price, in Llanthony.

It's what I look forward to doing most," Mr Robinson said."The boys are always laughing at me because I let him sleep in the bunk in the caravan with me."

Whoever has taken his a sad and evil person but I don't care who has got him I just want my dog back, otherwise I've got nothing left to live for.

"I don't think I've got long left the way things are going and I just want to spend the rest of my life with my dog."

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