The dog is man’s best friend, as they say, and those who do have dogs know this is nothing but the truth.
A dog is more than a pet, it’s a friend, almost a family member. It keeps you company when you are lonely, it knows how to cheer you up when you’re down, and it’s certainly the best cuddler out there.
Now, could you imagine getting your dog stolen? It would be a nightmare, wouldn’t it?
Unfortunately, Massachusetts man Greg Siesczkiewicz got his beloved pointer stolen out of his car a few days ago. He was devastated and for many hours he didn’t know if he would ever see his best friend again.
Local police posted on Facebook about the dognapping accompanying the text with security camera photos, in hopes that someone would locate the man and stolen dog soon.
Indeed, a few hours later, both the dognapper and the dog itself were located by a reporter around the same spot from where the pointer had been stolen.
Juliana Mazza of WHDH-TV was on the street reporting about this very story, when she spotted the man walking the dog in question around the area.
Immediately, she remembered where she had seen the man before: he was most probably the one she had seen in the security cameras. And the dog looked exactly like the pointer named Titus that the local police were looking for.
Mazza knew she had to act quickly if she wanted to help the dog’s owner get his pet back.
So, she asked if she could pet the dog, actually aiming for his name tag.
“The first thing I did was I asked if I could pet the dog, because I wanted to get down to the nametag to be able to confirm that the name matched the name of the missing dog,” Massa said.
What followed was a mini questioning of the suspicious man on Mazza’s part. As it is obvious in the video, the man is perplexed and his answers don’t really make sense.
“You didn’t think to call the number on the tag?” Mazza asks the man.
“I did, but then I tried using the phone and the phone was broken,” he responds.
Mazza knew something was wrong when the man told her he was supposed to walk a dog but he somehow got confused and took a different dog.
Things got even more suspicious when she asked him why he hadn’t called the phone number on the name tag after 24 hours, but he didn’t give any convincing answer.
Eventually, Mazza did what she knew was right. She called the police.
“Hey dispatcher, this is Juliana over at 7 News. I actually have the dog Titus and the man who said it was an accident that he took the dog,” Mazza said.
Minutes later, officers arrived at the scene and arrested the man, who was accused of larceny and breaking into a motor vehicle.
29-year-old Kyle Gariepy was taken into custody, while Titus was reunited with his owner.
Siesczkiewicz was more than happy to be able to hug his dog again.
“I’m thrilled to have Titus back. I think he’s glad to have me back,” he said.
Watch how things unfolded in the video below.
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