Dog thefts are up 49 percent!!!

[Dazzlingdoodles]

This scares me so much! In fact yesterday my son came home from school and for the first time I forgot to kennel Roscoe before they came home(he gets ecited and runs out the door to try to go to the bus stop to greet all the kids!) Anyways he got out and I was frantic I took off after him but he went under a gate and I couldn't get him quick enough. Needless to say after many tears and two hours of our whole family looking and knocking on doors and calling animal control to see if anyone called it in a cop showed up. One neighbor had found our dog and called the poilce because she couldn't reach my cell(it was at home while I was running around) and she said he was freaking out and it scared her so she wanted the cop to bring him back home

I went over there and got him though and he was scared out of his mind! He was hinding under her couch and crying so loudly until he heard my voice. It took me an hr or so to calm him down! I was just crying and thanked her so much for returning him home! I was so scared he was going to be stolen or ran over. Every worst thought was going through my mind. I mean I was truly hysterical.

Thank goodness there are still some good people out there though and it was a true lessoned learned that with these little guys you can't take any chances and always have to be on your gaurd. He has never done something like actually run off though.

[mzwenc]

Originally Posted by Dazzlingdoodles

This scares me so much! In fact yesterday my son came home from school and for the first time I forgot to kennel Roscoe before they came home(he gets ecited and runs out the door to try to go to the bus stop to greet all the kids!) Anyways he got out and I was frantic I took off after him but he went under a gate and I couldn't get him quick enough. Needless to say after many tears and two hours of our whole family looking and knocking on doors and calling animal control to see if anyone called it in a cop showed up. One neighbor had found our dog and called the poilce because she couldn't reach my cell(it was at home while I was running around) and she said he was freaking out and it scared her so she wanted the cop to bring him back home

I went over there and got him though and he was scared out of his mind! He was hinding under her couch and crying so loudly until he heard my voice. It took me an hr or so to calm him down! I was just crying and thanked her so much for returning him home! I was so scared he was going to be stolen or ran over. Every worst thought was going through my mind. I mean I was truly hysterical.

Thank goodness there are still some good people out there though and it was a true lessoned learned that with these little guys you can't take any chances and always have to be on your gaurd. He has never done something like actually run off though.

I'm glad your furbaby was returned and is safe at home. The same thing happened to my friend but her furbaby was never returned sadly We must be really careful with them

[Beabble]

Originally Posted by jmdt

I think I'm gunna get a sign that says beware of my Pit Bull and another that says beware of another BIG dog.

I was just on Costco and this woman comes to the return counter with a small doggie stroller with 3 shih tsu looking dogs in there. I mean they were kind of big and they were squished in there. Anyway she wanted to bring them in and the guy said no but he told her she could leave them by the entrance door with the guy who checks your membership card. So she pulls the stroller around there and leaves them withe the kid. I just couldn't believe it!!

Oh my!! No way would I do that. If I can't take my furbutts in with me, then I'm not going in, plain and simple. Speaking of my big furbutts and them getting out of their kennels, I woke up this AM to Gracie (one of my boxers) strutting her stuff through the house, lol. Sometime this AM, she decided she wanted out and well, she gracefully let herself out of the kennel, lol. I'm just glad she didn't decide to get in the fridge, she knows how to open that to, lol!

[Yorkiedaze]

The very reason I treat my girls like they are human babies! Never outside without me, never left in a car unattended, and I don't even walk them or take them on bike rides unless my husband is with me and I have my pepper spray. It's terrible to have to live in fear that your little dog may get napped.

[JakesMom]

Thanks so much for the info but it is scary news. Oh My! I take my baby everywhere with me but you never know