Video shows thieves stealing puppies after faking seizure at pet store
Thieves stole two bulldog puppies after allegedly faking a seizure at the Perfect Store in Centennial, Colorado.
- Fifteen pit bulls, including 12 puppies, were surrendered to Fairhaven Animal Control this weekend.
- The dogs are all healthy, but under stress.
- They’re being prepared for fostering and eventual adoption.
While stressed out from being removed from their home and staying in an animal shelter, some of the 15 pit bulls surrendered to Fairhaven Animal Control over the weekend are ready for foster care.
Animal Control Officer Terry Cripps said the owners and their dogs were living in a rental home in North Fairhaven, and that the owners and didn’t give much advanced warning that they were giving the dogs up.
The owners were loading a U-Haul in the middle of moving and brought the dogs outside before Animal Control arrived. They had called Animal Control at 9 a.m. that morning to pick them up because they had to be out of the house by noon, he said.
“They gave us three hours to get ready for 15 dogs, so it was really hectic,” he said.
Fortunately, he said, all the dogs were in good shape and Animal Control brought 13 kennels with them.
Not quite ready for adoption
The 12 puppies are almost 6 months old, and can’t be spayed or neutered or have rabies vaccines until then.
“I’m not going to let them go if they’re not spayed or neutered, because it will just repeat the same fiasco that we’re dealing with right now,” he said.
Three of the puppies are in foster care with shelter volunteers, and six are going to Forever Paws Animal Shelter in Fall River on Wednesday to be fostered.
All 12 puppies came from one litter. There was one adult male and two adult females in the rental home. They determined that the other female had at least one litter in the past and probably more.
Stressed out pit bulls
Only volunteers are allowed in the shelter currently as they settle into their new surroundings.
“The three adults are very stressed out right now, so we had to shut down our kennels to the public, especially the mother, who is extremely stressed out,” he said.
Dog trainer Eric Letendre will work with the puppies on Wednesday to evaluate them and put them on a training schedule so they can be adoptable.
He said the puppies are also trying to adjust to being taken from a home and placed in an animal shelter, and with new people around are getting stressed out even more.
Standard-Times staff writer Kathryn Gallerani can be reached at kgallerani@gannett.com. Follow her on X: @kgallreporter. Support local journalism by purchasing a digital or print subscription to The Standard-Times today.
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