The owners of a stolen baby donkey have released a video showing the emotional moment Moon was reunited with her family after she was found in Buckinghamshire.
The happy news come weeks after the two-month-old foal Moon was snatched from a field at Miller’s Ark in Hook on May 15.
Search for baby Moon went viral on social media with donations and eyewitness sightings coming in.
The police were eventually led to an address on Whitehouse Lan in Wooburn Moor, where the donkey was found on Wednesday May 31.
Elizabeth Miller, the owner of Miller’s Ark, posted a touching video to share the “amazing” news of Moon’s return, showing the foal in seemingly good spirits.
Watch the video from Miller’s Ark below.
Elizabeth thanked the “amazing people” who had supported and shared the story to help find Moon, saying it was because of them Moon was brought home to her mum Astra.
“A huge thank you to all streams of the media who spread the story further, Thames Valley Police for their quick response and Surrey and Hampshire Police for their work behind the scenes,” Elizabeth added.
READ MORE: Baby Moon: Police arrest two people in connection with donkey's theft
Two people have now been arrested, the police confirmed.
TVP’s Rural Crime Taskforce posted on social media, saying officers from Hampshire Constabulary’s rural crime team travelled to the Beaconsfield area on June 1 to “complete an arrest attempt with the TVP Rural Crime Taskforce for suspects involved with the theft of baby Moon.”
They said: “One adult and one juvenile were arrested by our colleagues from Hampshire on suspicion of the theft of the donkey.
“Officers from the Rural Crime Taskforce located a stolen roller during the post-arrest search, this has been seized and the adult male was further arrested on suspicion of that theft. Mobile phones have been seized as part of the investigation.”
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