A RESCUE dog that went missing on a visit to a new family has been found safe and well after a week wandering the streets of Worcester.

Mac, the Staffordshire bull terrier cross, went missing from Kathryn Beardshall’s back garden in Foley Road, St John’s, on Saturday, October 26. 

But the delighted dog lover said he had been found. 

“We had numerous sightings of Mac during the week he was missing, but the problem was that every time I or his foster carers got to where he’d been seen he had moved on,” she said.

“He was too frightened to approach anyone and kept running off.”

Mac was found when some of Ms Beardshall’s neighbours knocked on her door on Saturday, saying they had seen him run down their road, down an alleyway and into Bromwich Road.

Your Worcester News reported last week of fears the two-year-old, from a long-term foster home in Stratford-upon-Avon, was hit by a car on the first night he was missing, but he was not found to have any injuries.

“He’s been missing for exactly a week,” Ms Beardshall said.

“He was tired and hungry and had lost some weight, but apart from needing painkillers and antibiotics for his scuffed paws, he was fit and well.”

Mac’s foster family picked him up after he was found to recover from his adventure, and they decided he would be rehomed with them permanently as they did not realise how much he meant to them, until he went missing.

Both Ms Beardshall and the family in Stratford thanked everyone for their help with sightings of Mac and said they were overwhelmed at the amount of support they had received.