The owners of an eight-month-old Boston terrier were reunited with their pup Saturday afternoon after it was allegedly stolen from their Toronto neighbor’s front yard last night.
“What a relief,” the dog’s owner Jan Duffy told CTV News Toronto Saturday afternoon.
After Duffy and her family members posted their missing puppy Blue on social media, a stranger responded that a dog had been found at a shelter.
When Duffy and her husband, Mike Kinnear, called the shelter, their description of Blue matched the puppy, and they rushed to get Blue, a Boston terrier with a black body, white face and spotted ears.
While Duffy said the shelter told them the person who left the dog said he found a stray and was trying to help, the owners thought otherwise.
“We are convinced that this is not a good Samaritan,” she said. “No dog from 6pm to today.”
Their suspicion was also based on their neighbor’s surveillance footage, which captured the incident with Blue.
In the video, taken just before 6pm on Friday, a dark car can be seen going through several doors past their neighbour’s house on Homestead Road before suddenly stopping and reversing towards the house. The driver is then seen opening his window.
“You could see him yelling out the window,” Kinnear said.
After a few minutes, the dog runs across the street to the car and the driver quickly opens his door, scoops the dog up and puts it in the passenger seat before closing the door and taking off.
“He usually never leaves the backyard,” Kinnear said. But in this case, the puppy wandered into their neighbor’s front yard four doors down.
“You know how puppies are, they’ll go to anybody,” Duffy said.
At the time of Blue’s disappearance, his brother Bo, also owned by Duffy and Kinnear, felt his brother’s absence, the owners said.
“He’s not doing anything,” Duffy said Saturday morning before Blue was found. “He knows his brother is missing.”
Toronto police confirmed they attended the scene of a stolen dog at Morningside and Lawrence avenues on Friday shortly before 11 p.m. At this time, police said the events are under investigation.
Meanwhile, Blue’s owners say they are grateful to be reunited this afternoon after the “devastating” and “shocking” events.
“I’m so grateful,” Duffy said.
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