Police have said it was "totally normal" for Nicola Bulley's dog Willow to be off her harness, as she was when a dogwalker discovered the pet roaming unaccompanied.
Lancashire Police have updated the public about the ongoing search for the missing mum-of-two, who vanished while walking her dog 19 days ago.
Nicola disappeared while walking her springer spaniel Willow in the village of St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire, after she dropped her two daughters - aged six and nine - at school on January 27.
