‘I literally saw this little dog get abandoned today.’: Yorkipoo thrown from van reunited with pawrents after fraudsters posing as family tricked original rescuers

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Oct 4, 2026 7:30 AM EDT

While dog dumpings happen in a wide variety of ways, they often follow a similar storyline. A dog is found confused and afraid after being left somewhere. The person who finds them takes pity on them and provides a temporary home and wellness checks. From there the dog is either rehomed or adopted. Nice and simple. But in this story, well, the twists and turns just keep coming.

To begin with, the dumping of this dog was actually witnessed by our rescuer. They saw it being thrown out of a van like trash, which is what they initially believed it to be. But when they saw it move they immediately sprung into action calling the doggo over to them, who came with little coxing. This already is a cut above the rest. Most dumping rescues take hours of careful work to convince a terrified pupper to come along and trust another hooman. But then comes the kicker, this dog was not only dumped. After a little digging around the rescuer came to find out that this pup actually had a home. A home that it had escaped from thanks to its young sibling gnawing a hole in their fence.

From there our pupper protagonist went on a wild and scary journey but all the while managing to hold on to hope that one day it would be reunited with its family and that the only way to do so was to trust in hoomans. And while that trust did not pay off initially, it certainly did in the end. 
 

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    "Drama over kids ecstatic, Mom's relieved and Dad has some fencing work to do"
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    White Yorkipoo sitting in passenger seat of car.

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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 drove off. I assumed
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    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 whistled and the dog came and
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    jumped in. I got it checked for a microchip which it didn't have and of course there was no collar. I've taken it home much to my two cats dismay. I have no
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    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. At the moment she can't seem to focus on anything but the cats.
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    She weighs all of six pounds and both cats are pretty much double her size. Any guesses on breed mix or possible name suggestions?
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  • Well jheez, this is just a bunch of madness this is. On the one hand you have this poor innocent doggo who has been ejected from a car like a literal piece of garbage. And on the other hand you have this incredibly benevolent hooman who did not hesitate for a second to take pity on the pup they witnessed being dumped right before their eyes. How are you meant to know whether to smile or cry? The mix of emotions is overwhelming, but the main thing is that this pupper is now in safe hands.
     

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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 obvious it is she has been someone's pampered pet. She
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    is both house and leash trained but she refused any type of dog food. Only thing I could get here to eat was some chicken. Both she and then cats are currently coexisting but everyone is
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    sleeping. I was just back on the local 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 don't. Would have
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    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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    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 was provided by the new Beagle puppy the family has.
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  • And this is where this story really gets interesting. This has gone from a case of a dumped doggo being cruelly thrown to the streets, to an escaped pup who was then stolen for their pedigree and then later dumped by said thieves for some unknown reason. Like, it is tough enough to think what your pup might be going through in the base case that they had gotten lost. But for it to be the case that they got lost and then dognapped?! It must have been such a relief to not have known that in addition. 
     

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    She went missing in the early morning and was found by a neighbor. Who then posted a picture of her in the town's chat page on Facebook. He unfortunately was too trusting and
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    gave the dog to the first person that 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 she was 7 years old
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    and spayed so she couldn't be bred. Then they dumped her. I do not use Facebook and had contacted the shelter directly. They contacted me this
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    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 been home yesterday afternoon.
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    I felt a lot of sympathy for the teenager having once lost a most beloved pet that was never found. Anyway drama over kids ecstatic, Mom's relieved and Dad has
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    some fencing work to do when he gets home from the deer lease. Oh, and my cats are celebrating. XD
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