two words - chip implant - aka low jack for pets. You could get the location of your dog at any time and go get it.
If you have the telephone number that they called from, can’t you search for thee address ?
I’d board the dog locally in the future.
get the dog back asap... something is strange... u’d be crazy to wait a week.. try to use people search to find addresses
By any chance is your dog a healthy male worth a few bucks. I am wondering if they aren’t offering breeding services of your pooch.
Call the cops and tell them the sitter’s full name and address.
They can get their license plate number and watch for them.
Alternately, the phone company can track where the call came from by triangulating cell local towers.
If it were me, I’d consider it dog-napping and they’d be wise to just keep running with my dog and NEVER come home.
Sorry but there is no way these people are telling the truth. Call the police and brace yourself for upsetting news. Again, very sorry this is happening to you but this needs an officer to maintain the peace. I don’t believe these people ever left town.
IMHO all of this sounds plausible if the wife’s mother really is sick.
In that case, no offense but your dog will likely be way down on (their) priority list.
Could be they’re genuinely worried and supporting each other, and don’t want what they (may) see an the additional concern about the dog.
Or not. But that seems plausible, reading your original post. Perhaps they agreed to dog sit out of a sense of obligation to help.
Hard to say, from just the details posted... Might be they’re telling the truth.
Call the police. Give them the address of the dogsitter. They can go to the house. Check your phone records for the number they used to call you last time. Give that to the police. Let the police investigate. Dognapping is a crime in most states. Do it right away.
This is like listening to the Anthony trial.
Is the sitters name George or Cindy?
Besides the Police, also call your local News Stations. Sometimes they like investigating these type of human interest stories themselves. Good luck to you. I do know how you feel about leaving a dear companion behind.
I know you must feel terrible, but if they are dog lovers and their dogs go everywhere with them they will take good care of your dog. The mother is probably dying and they had to make a hard choice and took the dog with them. Your dog is in the company of their dogs and is probably enjoying himself as part of a pack. The man was probably short and rude to you because because of the situation they are in. I understand your dreadful situation. You are wondering where you dog is and how he is doing, but you will see him soon. Be comforted in that.
Have your daughter facebook or text her friend and try to find out where they are.
Call the cops,,,
Tell them you are going over to their house to collect collateral.
Brace for bad news about the little dog. These people are hiding something. The only thing that needs hiding is bad news.
$250 for a week, but I've been dealing with these people for 15 years and the facility is first class.
I can’t imagine what “bad” plans they might have.
What evil might anyone guess they’d be doing? Besides a stud fee scenario, pretty far out there, and anyway apparently the dog in question is a spayed female.
g_FL, I can’t think of a bad plan that they might have. So I don’t think they have a bad plan. I can’t explain their actions, but my assumption is they mean you no harm.
Get some sleep. Think of your dog as having an adventure right now.
Well, if you trusted them enough to babysit your baby then they may have made the best of it and done you right by taking the dog with them so it wouldn’t be left alone.
Stay in contact with them and I am sure it will work out fine.
I’d probably feel like you do but while reading this I’m thinking they probably still took your dog because it was an important, personal reason for you all to go to NJ and they probably didn’t want to let you down. Especially last minute. For whatever their reason is for wherever they went.
Should they have called and asked your permission? Yes. But they didn’t.
Try and contain yourself till Zoe comes home. You have to walk a fine line at this point or you, and your daughter, will lose them as people you trusted enough to take your dog.
My wife and I had two dogs for years. A lot of places we just didn’t go when they got older and a kennel was no longer an option. When they ended-up dying within a year of each other (13 and 14yo) we decided NO MORE DOGS!! Well, no more pets in general, so we could start doing things without worrying about who and where we would put our dogs if we wanted to go somewhere.
That was 5 years and 4 dogs ago. I guess someone was trying to tell me that having dogs around the house for 50 weeks a year is better for us than going somewhere without them for two :)
The important thing for you now is to be patient. Unfortunately, due to your agreeing to several of their ad-hoc alterations of plans, you've made yourself complicit and/or partially culpable.
Please tell us how the story plays out!
Regards,
In either case, try to be strong and reassuring for your child right now. Seeing you upset and scared will make them doubly so.
God bless!
Well, if something wrong is going on, delay is your enemy. Being told that their location was none of your business would have been the last straw for me. Call the police, charge them with theft, move immediately to retrieve your dog, etc. As I said, delay is your enemy.
You mention your daughter is Asperger’s. Is the sitter girl as well? Her father or both parents? The whole interaction sounds so lacking in empathy for people, blunt and inappropriate.
They have your dog, and changing that circumstance seems not to be within your control at present. Play nice as far as they’re concerned. Objective is to get her back. Quietly find out where they are. It sounds as if you’ve been lied to already. There’s no good reason for lying but plenty of bad ones.
Good luck and keep a lid on it until you get her back. Then, let loose with whatever. Bringing police into the matter rarely helps the immediate situation and almost always aggravates it, so if you can leave them out until you have the dog back I’d certainly do so.