Florida Labrador Retriever Cody Stolen From Disabled Vietnam Veteran
How sad! If you know anything please help this furbaby get back to his family.
Thanks to NBC2 News Online for this article.
Dog-napper steals puppy from sick veteran
Last updated on: 6/20/2007 6:32:17 PM by Meaghan Smith
CHARLOTTE COUNTY: A Vietnam veteran battling cancer watched as someone stole his puppy from his front yard - and because of his condition he couldn’t stop the dog-napper.
Donald Selby got his Labrador puppy, Cody, a few months ago to keep him company and protect his daughter after he dies.“They said I wouldn’t live long,” said Donald Selby, the dog’s owner.
Recently, he was in the front yard of his Port Charlotte home with Cody so the puppy do its business and he noticed a suspicious car parked nearby.
Selby says as Cody sniffed around the bushes a man just came up a grabbed the puppy.
“I saw the guy’s back. I just saw him running towards the car carrying Cody,” said Selby.
He says he tried to stop the dog-napper the only way he could.
“I yelled, but I can’t run because of my surgery,” said Selby.
However, it was too late. The car sped off with Cody inside, leaving Selby shocked and saddened.
“He’s family. It’s like losing a child. I didn’t think they’d take a dog right out of your yard,” said Selby.
The veteran is asking for your help to get his puppy back. He has posted an ad in the newspaper. If you have any information about this crime or the location of Cody, you are asked to call the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office.
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what a crappy thing for someone to do! how could anyone steal a dog?!
I am so very sorry for your loss.
I don’t have an answer as to why people do the dispicable things they do.
But
I might be able to help– If I may suggest–.
It is a possible solution to fill that family void and help a chocolate lab at the same time.
My name is Toni and I live in Sebastian, Fl. (Treasure Coast)
I found this ad on Craigslist .Com (Florida) UNDER FREE Catagory inTreasure Coast listings. It saddens me to think people can so carelessly treat animals -this Lab with little compasion by advertising him in this manner.
It makes me wonder whether these people even tried to find the actual owner of this lost dog. Even when you find an animal you do not list it under free when looking for an owner.
Please read below and if interested contact them immediately.
Before the dog is taken to the pound………
Thank You
An Animal Love
Toni
Labrador Purbred lab
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Reply to: sale- 364196285@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-07-01, 1:24PM EDT
purebred lab pickup asap Chocolate lab about 4 years old. AWESOME with kids. They can pull his tail and his temperment won’t change. Not neutered and has been bred previously .
we found the dog on the street a month ago and are just trying to find something asap so we don’t have to send it to the pound.
Christopher