Lost dog Tyree has been reunited with her owners after an amazing 25-mile journey from Colchester to Danbury.

The 11-year-old working Labrador had been out chasing rabbits on farmland at Copford, near Marks Tey, when she became lost in woodland and disorientated.

Tyree apparently decided to try to find her way back to owners Max and Charlotte Bond's farmhouse at Bentley, near Colchester -- but headed in the opposite direction.

She was found lying exhausted and bedraggled in a field at Danbury the next morning, by villager Bob Robarts.

Mr Robarts, 59, said: "There was no identity collar so I took her to a vet, who gave her a clean bill of health.

"She was very lovable and gentle and my mother took her in."

He tried in vain to trace Tyree's owners by placing advertisements in shop windows and contacting dog wardens and the police.

Then, last Friday morning -- 17 days after he had found Tyree -- her owners called to ask if he had found their lost Labrador.

They had been contacted by Ann Oliver, of Danbury, who had seen one of Bob's posters in a shop window after reading a "missing" advertisement placed in a local newspaper by the Bonds.

Dog's home: Lost Labrador Tyree is pictured with Mrs Charlotte Bond, her son, Oscar, and Bob Robarts.

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