Woman remortgages house to offer £10,000 reward for lost dog Mrs Maw has even hired a Pet Detective agency to find Angel, costing another 500 pounds. And she created a Facebook page, which led to thousands of supporters to donate 3,000 pounds towards a reward to find Angel, who has won five champion titles at dog shows. Mrs Maw has now taken out an extra £7,000 on the mortgage of her three-bed detached house to increase the reward to £10,000. It is the largest known reward ever offered for a missing pet, with the previous highest thought to have been 5,000 pounds. Mrs Maw, a married mother-of-one, has now re-printed the posters with the lucrative reward on. Mrs Maw, who works as an investigator for the Department for Work and Pensions, said she had no qualms about stumping up the five figure sum. Mrs Maw, from Crawthorne, near Barnsley, South Yorks, said: "Initially I was offering £3,000 which was made up of contributions by the sheer generosity of my Facebook friends. As a result I had a few calls from people claiming to know where Angel was but nothing came from them. So I decided to increase the fee because I am desperate to get my dog back and I thought the best and quickest way to do this was to remortgage the house to make the reward fee £10,000. My husband, Dominic, wasn't happy about doing it at first but he's accepting it more now because getting Angel back is the only way life is going to return to normal in our house. It means we have extended our mortgage from 15 years to 20 years. The £10,000 reward has only been public for a couple of days but I'm really hoping people will see the figure on offer and be encouraged to keep a look out for Angel. The reward will be for her safe return or for information that leads directly to her, it will be paid in cash and I have no issues with that, I am simply determined to find her. I just want Angel back. I have already spent at least £3,000 myself on advertising and posters right across the UK to find her. Mrs Maw bought Angel for £700 when she was a puppy and is one of only two show and working champions of her breed in the country, which could be why she was targeted. She has been microchipped and spayed and, unusually, still has a full-length tail which has not been docked. Mrs Maw said: "I have no idea why she was taken because she can't breed, so I expect someone knew she was a champion and thought 'I want that dog'. I worry that whoever has taken her might have now docked her to make less noticeable, but we have blood samples from her relatives so we can prove it is her by DNA. Since she was taken I haven't stopped looking for her. I contacted the police straight away and made a Facebook page and then contacted the pet detective. We have put out around 15,000 posters, distributed about 35,000 business cards, and have adverts on the packages of dog products that are sent in the post to people. Colin Butcher, of the Surrey-based The Pet Detectives agency which Mrs Maw has hired, said he has never heard of such a large reward. He said: "The most recent client to offer a big sum was last July and that was 5,000 pounds, which was the greatest award we have seen. We use a system to find animals involving investigating subjects and gathering evidence or eliminating them, and we are investigating two lines of enquiry in relation to this dog. A spokeswoman from South Yorkshire police said: "At around 7.20am on December 6, it is reported that the woman owner was placing her dogs into the rear of her vehicle. A German short-haired pointer was believed to be in the nearby scrubland a few metres from her owner. It is believed that when the woman called to her dog there was no sign of her. As she did so, it is reported that a white Transit-style van left the area at great speed.