Inky & Bossy, French Bulldogs

I found this story on a French Bulldog Meetup page; apparently the author and the person named Pavla are volunteers with a French Bulldog rescue group in Miami. The man who either found the dog, or if the dog was stolen, recieved the stolen dog, had written to the local french bulldog rescue group's main email number when he had a question. As the author points out in the first paragraph and the last, there were a lot of elements that needed to come together for this one to have a happy ending. Enjoy the story.



MIAMI FRENCHIES HELPS RESCUE 2 STOLEN DOGS
Tatiana
Posted Apr 11, 2008

Miami Beach, FL   It's just too incredible to be true, but 2 STOLEN French Bulldogs that were reported on Miami's Craig's List several weeks ago are back at home, safe and sound, and happily reunited with their family - and it's all thanks to Pavla Gibson and the wonderful marvels of modern-day cell-phones, emails and search engines...

The victims of a home invasion returned to find that they'd been robbed of personal effects and that their 2 Frenchies were gone... I'd found their ad on Craig's List several weeks ago and stayed in touch with the dog owner via email and on the phone, on and off, trying to encourage her not to give up hope of finding her precious pets...

Talking to Pavla the other evening, she confided that she'd received the oddest email from a man saying: "My family and I have a female French Bulldog. She is heated up. Can you help us? Try to reply back when you can." Amused, at first, Pavla jokingly responded by asking: "What do you mean heated up?", to which the man then wrote: "She is currently having her period, we need a male dog so that she can have puppies. thanks" The man then called Miami Frenchie's number and Pavla asked polite questions about the age of the dog and her provenance, and whether she'd been shown in conformation, whereby the man then claimed that he'd been "given" the dog for free and Pavla quickly realized that there was something awfully suspicious and sordid about the entire discussion as she quickly tried to explain that French Bulldogs required costly pre-natal examinations and C-sections, ending the conversation and calling me up to share the laugh...

We were giggling hysterically about the man writing "heated up" when it occurred to both of us that no one gets a Frenchie for free and this man was genuinely clueless about the care and well-being of these very special dogs... And then I reminded Pavla about the two stolen Frenchies on our local message board...

Pavla had managed to save the man's phone number on her mobile phone and she sent me copies of his emails where the (idiotic) man had signed his name... [And it's here that we have to pause for a second and nominate this man for a Darwin Award]. When I googled the telephone number - which coincidentally had exactly the same first three digits of the dog-owner's number - also displaying the address only a few blocks away from her home...

Pavla and I put two and two together and surmised that either the people had found the dog wandering around the neighborhood, or that the thieves had either given or sold the dogs to this man, so I called the lady and passed her all the information that Pavla and I had managed to gather...

And to make a long story short, the lady called the police this afternoon and armed with a copy of the emails this man had sent to Miami Frenchies, along with the phone number that matched the address that we'd Googled, the officer knocked on the door and was greeted by two barking Frenchies... The dog owner was then contacted by the kind officer and told that her pooches were both at the office of a veterinarian and that they were both perfectly fine.

We're all ecstatic as you can imagine... We're especially thrilled that Inky and Bossy are back home with their real family... And to put an end to this public bulletin, we thank the world wide web, Craig's List, Pavla Gibson's mobile phone and email, Google and the Miami-Dade Police Department while reminding all owners of pets to either micro-chip or tattoo your dog, keep current photos on hand, spay or neuter them responsibly, and please follow all the steps listed at FBRN'S MISSING DOG LINK to ensure the retrieval of your lost, missing or stolen dog.

Source: http://frenchbulldog.meetup.com/boards/thread/4515660