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01-31-2012, 11:01 AM | #1 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: California
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| 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!! |
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01-31-2012, 11:33 AM | #2 |
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| 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... |
01-31-2012, 12:32 PM | #3 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Long Island, NY USA
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| 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.
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01-31-2012, 01:08 PM | #4 |
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| 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. |
01-31-2012, 01:11 PM | #5 | |
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01-31-2012, 06:41 PM | #7 |
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| 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.
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01-31-2012, 11:17 PM | #8 | |
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01-31-2012, 11:53 PM | #9 |
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| 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!! |
02-01-2012, 03:33 AM | #10 | |
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02-01-2012, 05:02 AM | #11 |
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| 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.
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02-01-2012, 05:27 AM | #12 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Wilmington, NC
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| 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.
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02-01-2012, 08:20 AM | #13 |
My furkids Donating Member | 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...
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02-01-2012, 09:40 AM | #14 |
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| Oh my! This is awful. I knew things were bad, but this is way worse than that...
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02-01-2012, 10:15 AM | #15 | |
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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!!
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