A DEVASTATED family have felt the kindness of strangers after hundreds of animal-lovers joined a campaign to find their missing dog.

Beloved pet Izzy, a five and a half-year-old sandy-coloured cockerpoo, disappeared from the Barratt estate in Outwood Road, Radcliffe on February 16.

She ran out of the front door of new home of owners Ian and Dawn Purvis after builders let themselves into the property.

Izzy, who was wearing a pink collar, has been spotted in Outwood Road and Ringley Road and in the Sergeants Lane estate and Park Lane areas of Whitefield.

Mr and Mrs Purvis and their daughters Lauren, aged 14, and nine-year-old Eve, are desperate to bring their cherished pet back home.

A Facebook page set up to help find Izzy has had nearly 1,500 likes, posters have been put up across Radcliffe and thousands of leaflets have been given out.

Pet campaign group Harvey’s Army have supported the Purvis family’s appeal. Mr Purvis said: “Our two girls are devastated – we all are. I do not even want to touch on the worst case scenario that she won’t come back.”

Ian, who works for a membership activity company in Manchester, brought Izzy into the office every day. He added: “She is so loved and so needed, that is why it is so hard to comprehend why there have not been the sightings recently."

Anyone with information should call 07961 559230 or 07956034522. There is a reward for Izzy’s return. For more details: go to facebook.com/HelpfindIzzyWizz