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Time for celebration as Jessie heads for home

GSPCA staff were celebrating yesterday after Jessie the beagle was caught after a nine-week search.

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Manager Steve Byrne, pictured, said they were thrilled and Jessie's owners were 'overjoyed' at the news that the dog had been found.

The shelter got a call at about 5.30am yesterday, and volunteer wardens Matt HillSmith and Jen Bradshaw went to the trap at Port Soif, where they found the rescue dog which had broken loose from her home on 28 April.

A fence with a perimeter of approximately 120 metres had been put in place around it after the GSPCA re-evaluated the way it tried to catch Jessie, after a couple let her go when she was captured last month.

'We were really worried,' said Mr Byrne.

'It could take days, months, years to catch a dog.'

He said that eight-year-old Jessie may have associated the trap in a negative way from this, however she kept returning to the site for food which the GSPCA had left for her.

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