A TREASURED family pet was reunited with her owners after they feared she had been taken and sold on Facebook.

Seven-year-old black labrador Pudding disappeared from the garden of Wendy Smith's mother at North Road, Croesyceiliog, on Monday, March 14.

Mrs Smith, 46, husband Bob and children George, 19 and Olivia, 14, searched the area, talking to dog walkers on the canal and in other places where they took Pudding around New Inn and Pontypool.

They printed hundreds of flyers and asked for help on Facebook and Twitter, with people from all over Gwent sending messages saying they were looking for her.

However, the search took an unsavoury twist when the family saw Pudding for sale on Facebook for £50.

Mrs Smith said: "We initially thought she just wandered off, but maybe she was in the wrong place at the wrong time and enticed away to sell."

Luckily, though, whoever had Pudding handed her in to Cwmbran Police Station earlier this week and she is back home at Gloucester Close, Llanyravon.

Mrs Smith thanked everyone who helped in the search, adding: "If she could talk, I bet she could write a best-seller about where she's been."