The owners of an eight-month-old Boston terrier are asking the public for help after their neighbor’s surveillance camera caught someone stealing their puppy Friday night.
“I’m still sitting here in shock,” owner Ian Duffy said. “It’s devastating.”
“I was searching the streets looking for him for probably an hour or more,” said Duffy’s husband, Mike Kinnear.
After knocking on the door, Kinnear said one of their neighbors found surveillance footage of their dog, Blue, a Boston terrier with a black body, white face and spotted ears.
In the video, taken shortly before 6 p.m., a dark-colored car can be seen driving through several doors past their neighbor’s home on Homestead Road before abruptly stopping and reversing back toward the house. Then the driver window opens.
“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 their door, grabs the dog and puts them 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.
Since Blue’s disappearance, his brother Bo, also owned by Duffy and Kinnear, has felt his brother’s absence, the owners say.
“He’s not doing anything,” Duffy said. “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 11:00 p.m. At this time, police said they have no further information and the events are under investigation.
Duffy and Kinnear are appealing to the public for anyone who may have surveillance footage of the car seen in the video.
“If somebody has a dash cam around 6:00 p.m., 3:00 to 6:00 p.m., in and around Homestead Road and Lawrence Avenue,” Kinnear said. “We’re trying to get the license plate number.”
“We just want to get the word out,” his wife added. “You have to have some hope here.”
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