Our pal Stokemonster was on the scene:
Lower Mission/La Lengua neighbors, today I witnessed and chased after a guy who stole someone’s Yorkshire Terrier from in front of the Mcdonalds on 24th . I lost him on 26th & Mission but he was only out of my sight for less then 30 secs so, unless he had a getaway driver, I’m pretty sure he lives in the neighborhood. Keep an eye out for a white male, about 6 ft 180 lbs, shaved head (possibly wearing an oversized grey hoodie) with a Yorkie.
Stokes managed to track down the owner, so this is a pic of the actual dognapped pup. Keep your eyes peeled.
UPDATE: The pup is safe, according to this comment from its owner…
My dog is safe and home. I’m too overwhelmed and exhausted from such a horrible day. I will write back and tell the story later. Thank you to those who were concerned and looking out. I appreciate it sooo much.
what the fuck is wrong with people
Seriousleee…WTF is wrong with people? Don’t want your dog stolen, don’t leave it tied to a pole outside while you disappear for a while.
what’s wrong wit you? Blaming the dog owner for getting his dog stolen is pretty F’d. This person is devestated and did nothing wrong.
While it’s not right to leave a dog outside for an extended period, you have to leave him outside at least for a few minutes once in a while when dogs aren’t allowed in food service areas. The alternative is leaving your dog at home all the time which is a horrible and irresponsible way to own a dog.
Your suggestion really sums up to “Don’t want your dog stolen? don’t have a dog!” Sometimes you have no alternative but to trust people around you. I doubt when someone steals your bike or your car or whatever is important to you some day you’ll have the balls to blame yourself for the stupid decision you made to take it out in public.
Nice… you are so right!
+1
My dog is safe and home. I’m too overwhelmed and exhausted from such a horrible day. I will write back and tell the story later. Thank you to those who were concerned and looking out. I appreciate it sooo much.
Best news I’ve heard all day. I’m SO glad you got him back!
Immeasurably happy to hear Wilson’s home, Julie!
so, how did you get your dog back?
Here, here! Stupidity deserves stupidity. How would you feel being chained up on Mission St to a pole. Ignorant!
What sort of asshole steals a dog?
The descendants of people who stole humans and sold them into slavery, and their kin who bought said stolen “goods”.
The scum-bucket who stole the dog may even go so far as to remove the dog’s ID, and use the frightened dog to panhandle, or sell it to an unscrupulous buyer.
I hope this has the same happy ending as the dog that was stolen week before last.
Scum don’t give a shit.
The existence is assholes should preclude someone from tying their purebred dog to a sign. Stop enabling lazy people.
Sounds like White Guy Matt. He hangs around Blind Cat. That’s the only bar on 24th he’s allowed in to anymore.
what is with this site and victim blaming? so many bitchy entitled 20 somethings scoffing at the misfortune of others until it happens to them.
what is it with this city and naivete?!!?!
It is really odd that people’s first impulse is to blame the victim and not the thief.
I totally agree, but after moving here from Chicago and New York, I just don’t get where people’s heads are at some times. I’m not blaming anyone here, and of course hindsight is 20/20, but it seems to be a recurring trend on this here blog. Glad this dog, and prior dog were recovered, and that there’s a good comm blog able to try and help out.
The victim is handier than the thief.
This isn’t exactly blaming the victim. There are two things going on, some complete asshole pulled a sociopathic maneuver and grabbed someone else’s dog. However this is something that is 100% preventable by the person who is charged with taking care of said dog and this sort of prevention should be noted so other readers of this site will not leave their pride and joy tied outside of McD’s on Mission or anywhere else in the future.
Agreed — we should definitely work to overturn local ordinances that prevent people from taking their dogs inside particular types of establishments, thereby forcing them to leave their dogs outside.
I see… **saaarcaaasm**
Wooooooo… scary!
It is. The assumption that if someone acts appropriately they won’t be a victim of a crime is a poor one. No crime is 100% preventable. The criminal is also entirely responsible for the illegal actions. A dog can be stolen even when the owner can see the dog or even when the owner has possession of the dog. There is no way to completely prevent dog theft (aside from, as someone put it, not having a dog). Basically, the moral is don’t have a dog.
Nice try, troll. Now fuck off.
Hmmm. Kinda reminds me of “legitimate rape.” I wouldn’t be surprised if you supported that one too mushmouth.
Kyle: I know, it’s crazy and sad.
Unfortunately, “missing dog” posts where there is absolutely no follow-up about what happened, how/if the kidnapper was apprehended, etc. (see also http://www.missionmission.org/2012/08/28/dognapped/) make me much more reluctant to pass along the alerts via my own friends/listserv/blog, because I’m never sure whether it was in fact a real kidnapping or just a misunderstanding. If you’re going to post these items, you at least need to make some effort to update them with details of the resolution.
I prefer cats because they can feed and walk themselves.
…and, yet, they cannot remove the poop from their own cat-boxes! Cat Fancy that!
yeah they can – they just have others trained better and can’t be bothered
I have always had indoor/outdoor cats, no boxes.
Oh, you mean the kind of cats the rest of us call “road kill”.
over here it’s “coyote food”.
It had never even occurred to me that people would just randomly kidnap dogs tied up outside stores, etc. I had never heard of such a thing before the MM post a week or two back.
I have a rat terrier myself, and I can not imagine a scenario where I would leave her tied off to anything while I went inside a store. Not just dognappers are an issue, but any other dog going by that your dog has a disagreement with puts your dog at a complete disadvantage if they are tied up and the other dog isnt. Dogs count on you being the smart one in the relationship, if you can’t handle that, you shouldn’t have a dog.
thats what you get for being eating at McDonalds.
I deeply disagree with tying a dog of any size outside unattended, much less a tiny dog that cannot possibly defend itself. The dangers are obvious, both to the dog and also from some dogs. My guess is that the guardian of the Yorkie will never do that again and will advise others not to either. You wouldn’t tie your child outside would you?
still waiting to hear how you got your dog back
+1
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