When Justine Marlowe’s beloved yorkshire terrier Alfie went missing she never gave up hope of finding him.

Searches and appeals proved fruitless so Justine set up a website to reunite lost pets with their owners.

Five years on www.alfieslostdogs.com is now the biggest missing dog site in the South East and is viewed around 4,000 times a day.

Justine, of St John’s Road, Faversham, has gone on the Trisha Goddard Show on a programme about people and their pets.

Justine, who is in remission from breast cancer, was joined on the show by her friend Chris Page from Rochester, with whom she runs the website.

Also on the show was a pet communicator who claims to converse with animals, a woman with 22 cats, an 8ft burmese python and Gin the dancing dog.

Alfie disappeared on a walk in 2004. Justine, 41, has consulted psychics and clairvoyants in her quest to find him and has even offered a £10,000 reward for his safe return.

She said: “I am convinced Alfie was taken and sold on and the person who has him now probably doesn’t even know he was stolen.

“I would love him back but most of all I just want to know he is happy.”

Her search for Alfie inspired her to help others in the same boat by setting up the website.

“I wanted to help other people whose dogs have gone missing. They feel they can relate with me because I have been looking for Alfie every day for nearly five years.”

Through the website local vets are contacted, posters printed and information about local kennels and dog wardens given to owners. There are also photos of every missing dog.

“The idea is to make stolen dogs too hot to handle,” added Justine.

Justine took one of her other yorkshire terriers, Louie, with on the show, which will be broadcast on Channel Five in April.