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A tiny chihuahua dog has been reunited with its distraught owner after a major hunt involving emergency services.
One-year-old Jasmine escaped from Charlotte Silver at the Club World indoor children's play area in Marine Terrace, Margate, on Monday.
After more than 36 hours on the run - including six hours apparently with two men - she was found.
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Philippa Jones of the Missing Dogs and Strays group led a Facebook appeal to help find the missing mutt and logged all the doggy sightings.
At 1pm on Monday the runaway pooch was spotted being carried by a bare-chested man walking up Fort Hill past the Turner Contemporary art gallery.
Philippa said: "She was seen by several people in the arms of a man in his 50s with no top on.
"We hoped he was taking her to the police station or PDSA but she was not handed in and there were no further sightings despite many people on foot, car and moped searching."
The dog was later seen with two men who apparently took her to a hotel in Ramsgate and then abandoned her in the King George Vl Memorial Park in Marine Drive where the chihuahua was chased by a Jack Russell towards the cliff edge.
Firefighters and coastguards carried out a search for both dogs using emergency lights at 9.30pm on Monday night.
They found the Jack Russell but the chihuahua remained missing.
The services called off their search around midnight but volunteers carried on until 2.30am.
Philippa wrote: "We cannot thank the emergency services enough for how thorough and caring they were on that cliff top."
Owner Charlotte returned to her home in Birchington at 7pm but was back at 4.30am on Tuesday morning to resume hunting for her pet.
Philippa posted later on Tuesday: "Good news! Jasmine the chihuahua, missing since running off in Margate on Monday, seen with two men in Marine Drive, ‘dumped’ in King George VI Memorial Park and then chased toward the cliff edge by another dog has been found and reunited with her happy owner."
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