Dog thefts are up 49 percent!!!
 

AOL.com Video - Dog Thefts Up 49 Percent

The American Kennel Club says that dog thefts are up 49 percent from 2008, Yorkies and Pomeranians being on top of the list.
Yikes!!

Yes, really scary.
What scares me more is when i go to the store
and walk through the parking lot and see
tiny yorkies, chihuahuas, etc .. Left in cars alone...
Of course i don't like to see that with any dog but
the tiny ones are more at risk...

I especially don't have a yorkie magnet on my car because I'm afraid that if im in my driveway someone will know there are yorkies inside my house!!:(

I don't take them out as often as I used to. I get too nervous that someone will steal them from me. I mean I go to petco with them once in a while but that's it.

That is so scary. We have shut off our doggie door because I don't want them running in and out espically if we are not there. Dh put a doggie door going into our garage from the laundry room and we put papers down for them to potty on and I just feel safer that way. Between the thiefs and the hawks its scary to let them out without staying right with them.

I'm the same way. I want that bumper sticker that says "My Yorkie is smarter than your honor student":p but no way. I'm too paranoid. I hate calling Princess by her name out in public as well, though that's pretty impossible.

Oh my! That is scary!

Scary. When I was visiting my parents they were shopping inside a store and I was sitting outside with Buster as he was not allowed in. I was sitting on a bench to the side when a group of late teens / early twenty's drove by. They stopped the car and a few got out and came over to me an started asking questions about Buster but mostly asking how much I paid for him and commenting on how much Yorkies cost all while glancing back and forth to the car which was sitting there idling. I was really spooked because it was not that is a cute dog kind of conversation, so I told them I did not pay much for him because he had a lot of health issues. I quickly said OH there is my brother and got up and put Buster in his carrier and ran into the store. Security stopped me inside the store but I told them I was afraid my purse was going to get snatched so they let me stay at the entrance until my parents were done. The group got back into the car and drove away. Maybe it was nothing but it was really scary at the time.

I have a Boxer sign on my door, and 2 boxers and a german shorthaired pointer in my house to boot. I dare someone to come in and try and steal my Mags and Jazzie, they won't be going out the door if they come in, cause all three of my big dogs know how to let themselves out of their kennels:D

That is extremely scary.
I first of all will never ever leave my pup alone in the car.
Its bad enough when I walk down the street and random people approach me saying " Oh those are expensive dogs" and repeats it like two times. :/ YES the world all knows yorkies are expensive, whats the point on asking me and approaching me and my pup?

Ah scary! Everybody please be careful!!

That is scary! I dont take mine anywhere when out like Petsmart or places unless my Husband is with me. Im a small women with a small dog so Im an easy target, but Im also careful about when I go to a mall by myself even. The only time I go is in the Morning. Too many women getting their purses taken at the mall. You cant be too careful these days

Yes dog thefts are very bad here too, especially small dogs, I have always kept mine close to me, I think it is getting worse with the economy and all.

We have a big fenced in back yard but it backs up to a walking trail. Ginger makes such a fuss at everyone that goes by so now I don't let her out there by herself. I'm afraid someone will grab her! It's shame that it has to be like that.

If we take the furbutts with us one of us always stays in the car, if we cant take them in with us...I am ALWAYS fearful of someone taking them...I would go out of my MIND if someone took one of my furbabies! A few years back a doctor at an area hospital brought her yorkie with her...she left her in the car IN a parking garage...ran into the hospital for a bit and when she came out her yorkie was gone! ...I would love to have little yorkie signs in my gardens but will not in fear someone would break in and take them. we do have an alarm...but, by the time the police got here they would be long gone...

Oh my! This is awful. I knew things were bad, but this is way worse than that... :eek: :confused::(:mad:

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!!

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

:eek: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!

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.

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