Off to the doghouse they go!
A pair of thieves made off with two English bulldog puppies at a Colorado pet store after one of them created a distraction by faking a seizure in a wild caught-on-video heist.
Security footage from inside the store, Perfect Pets in Centennial, shows the dog nappers lingering near the cash register. One of them, a white man wearing a pom-pom hat, conversed with the cashier before his partner flopped onto the floor, laying starfish-style on his back.
The puppies in the store immediately started barking at the thief sprawled out on the floor. The other people in the store approached in confusion and tried to check to see what was happening as the suspect lay seemingly immobile.
The other thief ventured down one of the corridors, keeping an eye on his partner and the onlookers attending to the fake seizure. He approached and bent over his partner for a moment before heading back towards one of the puppy display cases, according to the video.
Toward the back of the store, he ripped the cover off one of the cases and scooped two English bulldog puppies into his arms, the footage shows.
“Hey, what’re you doing? Hey, no, stop!” One of the staff members shouted at him in the clip.
The two other employees in the store rushed at the thief alongside the shouting staff member. The thief toppled over one of them, dragging them both to the ground as he lost his grip on the puppies.
Both dogs flew across the room, landing hard on the floor with one even colliding with a card display rack, according to the video.
The thief recovered and quickly nabbed both pups again before sprinting out the door with the dogs, leaving his prone partner in the dust. He fled in a gold Cadillac Escalade, according to the employees.
“I could not even believe just the way that the guy treated these dogs. They were like pieces of meat. He just ripped them out of there. They’re screaming. They’re crying. Both of my girls made a very valiant effort to stop him. I’m really proud of them,” Bianca Rose Larsen, the manager of Perfect Pets, told Denver7.
The seizure faker was arrested at the store on Friday, but police are still looking for the other suspect.
The store is offering its “biggest reward yet” of $4,000 for the safe return of both puppies and the remaining suspect’s arrest.
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