Last year in Allston, I ran into my friends mom frantically looking for her dog (a small Yorkie). They were at a park and the last thing she saw was a women petting her dog. She didn’t think anything of it and answered a text. The next thing she knew the dog was gone. When I saw her she had been searching for an hour. I called vets, shelters and the local police station and left my info with them. 5 hours later a women called me saying she found the dog roaming the streets in Watertown and that she picked it up bc it looked lost. I drove her to pick up the dog in Newton and they basically asked her for money for the dogs return. She was so shaken up that she just paid the women, no questions asked but I found the whole thing suspicious.

1. The dog’s pretty clingy to her and never wonders far and 2. Why didn’t the women just call the number on the dog collar when she initially found it? There’s a lot of sketchy people who do sketchy things for unknown reasons.. mostly money

I mean how often do you hear about dog kidnappings in general? Its a highly local happening, so unless a celebrity is involved, it’s unlikely to make news