Couple spend £10,000 on hunt for dog who went missing four years ago

A desperate family has spent more than £10,000 on finding their dog after she went missing four years ago.

Izzy, a fluffy blonde cockapoo, ran away from home in 2015 after being spooked by a workman setting off the alarm on February 16.

Since then Dawn Purvis, 46, and her husband Ian, 48, have paid for posters, leaflets and t-shirts with Izzy’s face on them, as well as pet psychologists and mediums.

They are now offering £3,000 to anyone who can provide information that will lead to Izzy’s safe return.

‘It has been a complete nightmare for the past four years,’ Dawn, a management accountant, from Radcliffe, Manchester, said.

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‘Izzy is a huge part of our family and not knowing where she is has been heartbreaking. She followed my husband everywhere and would even go to work with him as a general manager.

‘We’ve put posters and banners up everywhere, we’ve had leaflets and paid for mass emails to be sent. I have met with a pet psychologist to try and trace her footsteps.

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‘I’ve met with pet mediums across the UK to find out whether they believe she’s still alive.

PIC FROM Caters News - (PICTURED: Izzy ) - A desperate family has spent 10k in a bid to find a missing Cockapoo who vanished four years ago.From hiring pet psychologists to paying for missing dog banners and leaflets, Dawn Purvis, 46, and her family have tried it all to get their beloved pooch, Izzy, back. It has now been four years since Izzy, a fluffy blonde cockapoo, went missing but her family have refused to give up.SEE CATERS COPY
Izzy the cockapoo ran from home four years ago (Picture: Caters News Agency)
PIC FROM Caters News - (PICTURED: Dawn Purvis and her husband, Ian, from Radcliffe, Manchester, have spent 10,000 in a desperate bid to get their dog back. Izzy, a Cockapoo went missing back in 2014, hasnt been seen since running from her home.) - A desperate family has spent 10k in a bid to find a missing Cockapoo who vanished four years ago.From hiring pet psychologists to paying for missing dog banners and leaflets, Dawn Purvis, 46, and her family have tried it all to get their beloved pooch, Izzy, back. It has now been four years since Izzy, a fluffy blonde cockapoo, went missing but her family have refused to give up.SEE CATERS COPY
Dawn and Ian Purvis are desperate for Izzy to come home (Picture: Caters News Agency)

‘Ian and I have driven to dog shows wearing our “Find Izzy” t-shirts and have stayed overnight all over the country in a bid to try and track her down in case she had been sold to someone else.’

Mrs Purvis added that it was not the monetary value she cared about but ‘the emotional toll it has had on all of us as a family’.

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‘It doesn’t get any easier as time passes, we are in constant limbo and we’ve had numerous hoax calls over the years which have been devastating too,’ she said.

‘She’s still registered on DogLost UK four years on and we’re just praying for a miracle.’

Izzy ran away from home after a workman entered unexpectedly and set the alarm off.

PIC FROM Caters News - (PICTURED: Ian, 48, from Radcliffe, Manchester with Izzy ) - A desperate family has spent 10k in a bid to find a missing Cockapoo who vanished four years ago.From hiring pet psychologists to paying for missing dog banners and leaflets, Dawn Purvis, 46, and her family have tried it all to get their beloved pooch, Izzy, back. It has now been four years since Izzy, a fluffy blonde cockapoo, went missing but her family have refused to give up.SEE CATERS COPY
They are offering £3,000 to anyone who has information (Picture: Caters News Agency)

The more he tried to catch her the more she ran, leaving the family desperate for her to return.

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‘For anyone who thinks I shouldn’t still be looking for her, or even has her and doesn’t want to give her back, I would ask them to walk a day in my shoes,’ Mrs Purvis said.

A 16-year-old girl jumped off Waterloo Bridge eight months after a mental health service for young people closed her case, an inquest heard, Rebekah Legg-Mead had suffered bullying and had to be home schooled when she tragically died. Her inquest heard although she was referred to mental health services by her GP she was never asked about if she had suicidal thoughts and eight months before she died her case was closed. But a coroner could not rule the death a suicide because although she had left a note saying she ?couldn?t take it anymore? she screamed for help once she was in the water. A man making his way home jumped into the Thames in a vain bid to save her in the early hours of July 10, 2016. West London Coroner?s Court heard her GP had referred her a year before her death to the Tavistock and Portman Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in north London. Her family?s lawyer applied to have an Article 2 inquest - meaning social services and CAMHS could be investigated for wrong-doing at the hearing. But Assistant Coroner Catherine Wood denied this request, saying: ?Rebekah was undoubtedly vulnerable, but the risk to her life could not have been foreseen.? A statement was read from Rebekah?s mother that detailed her going down the wrong path after ?constant bullying?. Sarah Legg-Mead said her daughter had been a ?caring and loving? person had plenty of friends before going to Parliament Hill Secondary School in Highgate, north London. Mrs Legg-Mead said: ?This was not my first choice but a good friend of Rebekah?s was going there. ?Unfortunately shortly after her friend left the school because her mother died. After that Rebekah was constantly complaining of bullying. ?The school was not very helpful with my complaints. It got so bad that I eventually took her out of school and home schooled her. ?Unfortunately the bullies followed her out of school. ?She started hanging around with unsavoury characters, she said it was better to be friends with them than being their victim.? The relationship between Rebekah and her mother then began to deteriorate and Mrs Legg-Mead said: ?She started sneaking out and had mood swings.? It was decided Rebekah would move to Brighton to live with her dad and Mrs Legg-Mead: ?I just wanted to put distance between her and those people. ?But she kept coming back to London to see them.? Rebekah was referred to CAMS by her GP in July 2015 and was assessed in the meeting as ?aggressive? and had been both the victim and perpetrator of assaults against and by her peers. It was revealed the therapist assigned to Rebekah was leaving the job soon and she was only seen by CAMHS once. Dr Rob Senior, a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist and medical director of CAMHS, conducted an investigation following her death. He said, although not placing any blame with CAMHS, that in future a therapist who was leaving his job soon would never again be allocated to someone as vulnerable as Rebekah. Giving evidence at the inquest Dr Senior said : ?I accept that she was someone with substantial vulnerabilities and perhaps should have been seen by someone else. ?CAMHS services are stretched in resources and sometimes patients are handed over to other people. ?For the record I don?t think that could be seen as contributory to her death but in terms of our practice, it was not ideal.? But he added: ?We had no reason to believe that at the time when we saw her she was an imminent and immediate danger to herself. ?It was a good assessment but it was incomplete. ?I would speculate that other things most certainly happened between when she was seen by us and when she died.? He said following the investigation into Rebekah?s death, ?more robust? training for people in risk assessment had been put in place. Dr Senior said: ?There were questions that were not asked. An opportunity was missed, I regret that it happened like that. ?Whether it would have made a difference to the outcome if she was asked about suicidality, it?s impossible to know.? A post mortem report concluded, although it was impossible to rule out drowning, Rebekah died from ?immersion and head injury? she sustained after the fall. The inquest heard that two men who were coming from a nightclub nearby heard Rebekah screaming for help at about 5am. She was in the water shouting ?help me, help me, I can?t swim?. Dawson Correia Lima said: ?I heard a girl screaming loudly ?someone help me ?.I saw her and she was struggling to keep her head above water. ?I jumped into the water and swam about 20 metres.? But Mr Lima was unable to find her and pulled himself onto a boat. 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‘I know it doesn’t compare to losing a child but Izzy was our baby and we love her so much. I really hope that if anyone has any information about her that they get in touch.

‘She’d be nine years old now and not a day that passes gets any easier without her.’

A spokesperson from DogLost UK said ‘We want to encourage anyone who knows what happened to Izzy or may have acquired Izzy, not knowing she was was a missing member of this family, to please get in touch with DogLost directly on 0844 800 3220.

‘Izzy is microchipped and spayed.’