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Originally Posted by doodandy  I went through this very thing last Jan..... My Oliver slipped out the front door while I was unloading groceries... I noticed he was gone almost immediately and he has never been returned.....
I posted adds in paper went to the pound contacted all the vets to notify me if a " New Patient " came in.... Craigs list, Reward posters.... went door to door and poof he disappeared in no more than 10 minutes..... I live in a very nice new neighborhood.... and have never had any problems at all....
I spoke with all the children I could find..... NOTHING>>>> " My gut tells me some young guys were visiting my neighbors and were standing out in the driveway getting ready to leave and I think they took him...... I still can hardly talk about it.... I have a new little boy " Samson " I got 1 week later ( I had planned on getting a 2nd one soon anyway... "
The reason I said all of this I put out the door to door circulars and signs and poster about 3 milles out.....
After about 1 week when I would see one of them missing I would replace with a new one..... and then started getting the phone calls....
they woul;d say we have your dog.... ,,,, or they saw a dead dog on the side of the road..... then someone wanted my address and said they would bring me my dog.... I told them I would meet them in a Church Parking lot and of course they never showed up..... It always sounded like a different person that would call....
I don't think I would post your address..... I only put my cel phone number on the flyers.... Just be very cautious....... there are alot of bad people out there than know how desperate you are....
PLEASE be careful....
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doodandy,
I'm so sorry you were put through that. In earlier posts on this thread you will see that I did put down my address and home phone. I normally would have never put down my address but I was desperate.
Thankfully nobody played any cruel pranks on me, but it did allow people to check back with me on whether or not Rocky was found. Rocky was found by a very nice lady and then returned back to me.
Think it's very important to involve the neighborhood adults and kids. People love to talk and word of mouth works in your favor. Also post pics/flyers at all the local groomers. There usually are not too many Yorkies in town....Good to keep even the groomers aware your Yorkie is missing and what it looks like. My thoughts were that I would not make it easy for someone to take over ownership of my Yorkie.