WILLIAMSON COUNTY — Rick Alspach cracked open the door to his house Wednesday night after a long day on the job as a construction supervisor.
There was no chorus of barking from his 14 dogs. Only silence.
Alspach, 43, rushed to his kitchen. Cosette, a 4-pound Yorkshire terrier whom Alspach calls "Momma Dog," was gone. So were her four 3-week-old puppies.
Then he dashed to his sunroom, where he saw that a door leading outside had been kicked in, and the crates that held five other dogs — Oliver, 7, Annie, 5, Dodger, 4, Nicholas, 2, and Maggie, 1 — and four more puppies sat empty.
"It's like someone came and kidnapped my children from underneath me," Alspach said Thursday. "I'm devastated."
Williamson County sheriff's officials said they are investigating the incident.
Alspach and his wife, Carmen, who breed the dogs and sell the puppies, spent Thursday making fliers with the dogs' photos and asking neighbors if they had seen or heard anything. They called pet stores and asked if anyone had tried to sell the puppies.
The Alspaches had recently advertised to sell the puppies for as much as $2,000 each from their home near Hutto.
"I just wish whoever stole them would bring them back unharmed," Rich Alspach said.
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