Irondequoit, N.Y. (WHAM)— Police say a Hilton woman’s car with her three dogs inside was stolen over the weekend.
Since the alleged theft on Saturday, Andrea Catone has been worried about her dogs’ well-being, praying they’d be returned to her.
She parked behind the Animal Service League Shelter in Irondequoit, as she normally would.
“My absolute first thought was my heart sank because my dogs were in the car,” she said.
On Saturday evening, just after 7:30 p.m., Catone’s car was nearly packed and ready to go home for the night. As she made her last trip into the shelter, she came out to an empty lot, with no car, and no dogs.
Catone said “I was carrying them out one by one, and when I came back in to grab the last dog and was walking with the last dog, a man came from the front of my shelter, ran around to the back where my car was parked, jumped in and drove off.”
“He did dump the dogs out at a couple of different locations,” she continued. “We were able to find this guy pretty quickly within a couple of hours of searching. Layla has been the one who has been missing for a couple of days, and we just reunited with her just literally today. It’s heartless again. Taking personal property, money, is one thing. They are helpless animals. She has been outside in the cold and rain. She could have been killed. She could have been hit by a car.”
Catone’s husband found her car totaled. Police confirm the theft is an open investigation with no arrest yet.
Posts about the stolen dogs were shared on social media.
Andrea said she’s just lucky to have her animals back home.
“I know that everything else can be replaced, but I did not know what was going to happen with my dogs and where they were,” Catone said. “I feel like it’s a relief. I can move on and figure out the rest of this stuff because she’s home.”
Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call 911.
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