A dog owner who offered a €2,000 reward to find her missing pooch has been left heartbroken as she believes the pet was shot dead by a farmer.
Mariana Caran Rossi, 28, launched a campaign in March to find her beloved Collie after the three-year-old went missing last December in Co Westmeath.
The Brazilian, who came to Ireland in 2020 to study business at Trinity College in Dublin, placed posters of Apollo around Westmeath and Dublin.