Today I received a phone call from a man that said he believed he saw a woman at Walmart on Sunday trying to sell Zeke. I asked him why he was sure and he told me he was there with his kids and they spent a while petting and holding the dog. He told me she was a blonde woman and she was trying to sell him for $400.00. Today while he was searching the paper for job prospects he came across Zekes add. He claims it is the same exact dog. I immediately called the case officer and left a message, once again he did not answer. I called my husband and he called the Walmart manager, Marcus. He initially told him he would review the tape from Sunday to see if there was a picture of the woman with "the dog." I jumped in my car and headed for Tracy. My first stops in Tracy were the two addresses I have been able to obtain thus far. The first house my son knocked on the door to see if he could hear a dog bark... but nothing. The second a man was outside gardening. I drove around the neighborhood with a silent dog whistle and yelling his name. Nothing. I headed for Walmart still optimistic because this man was willing to help...I thought maybe my luck was changing. I arrived there and had to wait more that thirty minutes for Marcus, the manager, to come out and meet with me. His words were definitely not what I wanted to hear. He told me the stores procedures for solicitors is to ask them to leave, if they refuse then they call the police and file a report against them. So I was told that I needed to wait until he could speak with the other managers on duty that day to see if any reports were filed against any solicitors. If not than he could not help me. I asked about the security tape he told my husband he would look at and his response was "do you know how long that would take?" He told me that the police could request them if they wanted to but that he could do no more for me. So once again stuck. |