They finally found a pic of the real Gizmo apparently. I dunno about you, but they don't look all that much similar in the jpg to me.
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http://www.yorkietalk.com/gallery/al...gigi_gizmo.jpg
Here at last: the real Gizmo.
It took more than a week, but owners of the 16-year-old Yorkshire terrier that reportedly was place-kicked to death have obtained photos of their 2-pound dog.
It turns out that Jessica McKenzie, 27, and her fiance Jelani Lewis, 29, did not have a photo of Gizmo, and it took a search by friends and relatives before digital images of Gizmo turned up.
The day after the dog's April 5 death at the Nashboro Village apartments, the couple provided a photo they thought was of Gizmo and it was broadcast internationally on TV and reprinted in newspapers, starting in The Tennessean.
Chad Daniel Crawford, 23, has been arrested in the kicking incident and charged with animal cruelty and felony vandalism. Crawford says he is innocent. He has remained free after posting $25,000 bail shortly after his arrest.
After a New Jersey man saw coverage of the dog's death in a Chinese-language newspaper he was reading on the subway, he contacted The Tennessean to say the photo was of his deceased Yorkie, GiGi.
''For the longest time, we believed it was a picture of Gizmo — and it does look like Gizmo,'' Lewis said yesterday.
''We have hundreds of different pictures of Yorkshire terriers,'' Lewis said. ''This isn't the first time we printed it out and thought it was Gizmo. We had this picture for quite some time.''
How did the mistake occur?
After the dog died, McKenzie went looking on the couple's computer for a digital photo.
She found a digital image that she and Lewis thought was Gizmo. They e-mailed the photo to The Tennessean, which used it in its April 7 edition, which broke the news of the dog's death.
Lewis said the mistake occurred because the couple has ''hundreds'' of Yorkshire terrier pictures on their computer, and the incorrect photo looked so much like Gizmo that it fooled them.
After they were told of the mistake, the couple began searching for a photo and asked family and friends, who then provided to the couple the photo reprinted here.
This time, Lewis said, he is confident he's got the right dog.
Lewis and McKenzie said they are continuing to search through their belongings to find other digital photographs of Gizmo.
''We have literally called all of our friends to see if they had pictures of Gizmo,'' Lewis said. ''We can't even find the ones we have.''
A hearing for Crawford has been set for May.
http://www.tennessean.com/local/arch...nt_ID=49996305