Daughter's 7-year-old dog returned after an accidental theft caused a fraudulent rescue, resulting in a roadside abandonment where the Yorkie’s true rescuer stepped in to finally bring the pup home

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Dec 19, 2025 2:00 PM EST

Much like dogs themselves, dog rescues come in all shapes and sizes. And this pawticular rescue certainly seems to match the doggo involved. Short, sweet, complicated, and confusing. For this rescue story is one that is multi-layered, beginning with the initial escape of the doggo from her home, a genuine accident that caused a misguided good Samaritan to think that they were helping by picking her up and taking the dog home with them. This was then followed by a similarly naive relinquishing of the found pupper to people who turned out to not be the dog's rightful pawrents and instead hoped to breed the purebred doggo.

But upon finding out that their plan was a bust, they dumped the doggo by the roadside, which is where our final and true rescuer stepped in after seeing the dog being ejected from a vehicle. Honestly, you cannot make this stuff up, but at least the poor pupper was not subjected to this madness for all too long, and within a matter of a few days, this whole harrowing debacle had passed. Making the moral of the story to put a tag on your dog's collar with your phone number. This could have all been so easily avoided.

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    "I literally saw this little dog get abandoned today."
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    I literally saw this little dog get abandoned today. I was much further down the road when I saw a van stop open the door and put something out on the road. It then
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    drove off. I assumed it was trash, which was bad enough but as I got closer I could see it was this little dog. I stopped my car opened the door
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    whistled and the dog came and jumped in. I got it checked for a microchip which it didn't have and of course there was no collar.
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    I've taken it home much to my two cats dismay. I have no idea if its a puppy or if this is its full size. Not sure if I am going to keep it or find it a good home.
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    At the moment she can't seem to focus on anything but the cats. She weighs all of six pounds and both
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  • Well, all we can say is that if this doggo who has been mysteriously thrown out of a car and left to the streets, is obsessed solely with the two cats that she has been placed beside in her rescue home, then things must be relatively ok. Considering the general conditions that this rescue happened under, it is rather mind-blowing that the doggo is not traumatized.

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    cats are pretty much double her size. Any guesses on breed mix or possible name suggestions?
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    UPDATE: for those who asked. She is doing ok. Getting ready to head to bed so will see how that goes. The longer I spend with her the more
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    obvious it is she has been someone's pampered pet. She is both house and leash trained but she refused any type of dog food. Only thing I could get here to
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    eat was some chicken. Both she and then cats are currently coexisting but everyone is sleeping. I was just back on the local
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    lost dogs site and while there are some responses no one claiming to be the owner. Mostly its just people telling me they want her if I
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  • Well, well, it sounds like this pampered pupper has hardly been moved by her grand journey about town. What kind of pup who has been through the madness she has seen is still picky enough to reject several different kinds of dog food and only accept pure chicken? That's some fancy feasting right there. 

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    don't. Would have been a piece of cake to re-home this dog. So the initial dump becomes even more questionable. I keep getting visions of a little old lady missing her companion.
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    Update: I believe I have found the owners. I am currently negotiating return. Will post full story once I know it.
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    Final update: I did find the owners. They were not the people who dumped the dog. The dog originally got out of their yard via a hole in the back fence. It
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    was provided by the new Beagle puppy the family has. She went missing in the early morning and was found by a neighbor. Who then
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    posted a picture of her in the town's chat page on Facebook. He unfortunately was too trusting and gave the dog to the first person that
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    claimed it. Which was not the owner. Meanwhile the owner posts pictures on the areas lost dogs page run by the County shelter.
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    This proceeds to cause an uproar across the towns Facebook pages. I think the people who took the dog either panicked or changed their mind when they found out
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    she was 7 years old and spayed so she couldn't be bred. Then they dumped her. I do not use Facebook and had contacted the shelter directly. They
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    contacted me this morning and put me in touch with owner. So the little girl was a 7 year old Yorkipoo named "Belle". The family have a 13 year old daughter and its really her dog. She
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    has had it since she was 6 and she was a crying mess last night. I suppose it was bad of me but I couldn't help but point out that if they had the dog chipped she would have
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    been home yesterday afternoon. I felt a lot of sympathy for the teenager having once lost a most beloved pet that was never found.
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    Anyway drama over kids ecstatic, Mom's relieved and Dad has some fencing work to do when he gets home from the deer lease. Oh, and my cats are celebrating. M
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