Fans are predicting the imminent return of Emmerdale's beloved dog, Piper. The pup vanished from the Dales a few months ago after Tom King (James Chase) hatched a cruel plan to convince his wife Belle Dingle (Eden Taylor-Draper) that she had died.
As viewers will remember, Tom had been mistreating Belle for months. In disturbing scenes, he struck her dog Piper with his car.
Tom later pretended that he had found the pup on the side of the road. He then "did whatever he could" to save Piper, but delivered the devastating news to Belle that the dog was dead.
However, this was not 'true', and Piper is actually alive. After a memorial for the dog, Tom was seen visiting a house outside the village and handed over a living Piper to a couple, reports Leeds Live.
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