RESIDENTS are being urged to contact police and RSPCA if they see any activity in relation to dog thefts.
This comes after a stir online regarding incidents of alleged suspicious behaviour of people marking houses where dogs live with chalk as well as people supposedly falsely posing as RSPCA officers.
One Dalton resident who witnessed suspicious behaviour from two men on Devonshire Street, she said: "When I went out the man had run off but there was a big cross on her door.
"One man was scruffy and wasn’t young and had some curly hair and a bald patch. He was the person I saw at the back door when I went out."