Help Find Scooter.

Scooter is a one year old Pug, living in Dallas with his humans Rob and Kim Velevis.

On Christmas Eve, he went out the doggie door, and slipped under the fence and disappeared.

The family scoured the neighborhood, put up fliers, checked with local shelters. They couldn't find Scooter.

A week and a half later, they received an anonymous letter postmarked Tulsa Ok. If was from a woman who found Scooter crossing the street to the dog park. Excerpts from the letter follow:

“I am writing to tell you that your little dog has a good and safe home.”

“I saw your little dog crossing the a street in to a park that is by a school. He came up right up to me, and I took him and gave him to my daughter on Christmas."

The woman, who confesses in the letter that she is a recovering alcoholic, wrote "I lost custody because of problems I had with alcohol, and I have lost everything else. I have been sober for 6 months, and I am trying to turn myself around, but I have lost everything. My little girl wanted a pug dog like your little dog (very much!)"

She enclosed $20 in the envelope.

Story on CBS News

Scooter

we talked about this a few days ago - very sad

http://www.ourdogsonline.com/ubbthreads....true#Post153936

Oops. Sorry. I just wanted to make sure the word gets out there. I feel so powerless up here in WI and would be devastated if that was my dog.

I suppose it could be worse - the pug could be held for ramsome and not being cared for. The dognapper had no right to keep it as there are millions of dogs in shelters that need homes. She just saw it as a cheap way to get a dog for her daughter.

What would have happened if the Pug was not so nice

You would think that with all the publicity that this story received, the dog would have been turned over by now. Surely that little girl who received the pug has a teacher or a friend's mom that knows the story and would report it!

Yeah really.. I hope the owners get their dog back.

Has anyone heard more about this case? I google it every now and again and can't find anything. I can't imagine 1) that these people gave up or 2) that the dog hasn't been spotted.

I haven't heard about it since. Its really insane.