VIDEO: Man steals puppy from yard, owner takes action
The Ajudia family of Stoffberg Avenue made a shocking discovery on Saturday afternoon, after they realised that their dog had gone missing.
Teresa Ajudia (also known as Teresa Mclaughlin) immediately checked the CCTV footage and was horrified when she saw how a man stole their three-month-old cross-Rottweiler, who goes by the name of Angel, through the palisade fence.
The footage clearly shows the man approaching the fence with a bag in his hand.
He kneels down and lures the three dogs on the premises to the fence.
After a while he grabs Angel, pulls him through the fence and places the puppy in the bag.
The man then walks away.
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After seeing the footage an outraged Teresa took to social media in an effort to trace the man and the family pet.
She received a call from a person who gave her a tip-off on who to phone. After she had tried many times, a person answered on the other end and told her where to go.
On Sunday morning Teresa arrived at the address, with a security company, and saw the man who had taken Angel from her yard at a house.
She confronted him, but he didn’t say much, saw a chance to run away and grabbed it.
A woman, one of the many people who were at the house, then brought a collar to Teresa and asked her if it was her dog’s collar.
“I looked at the collar and immediately recognised it,” Teresa said.
”She then showed me to a room and opened the door just a little bit. I couldn’t see clearly what was going on inside that room, but Angel wasn’t the only dog there.”
“After I called his name and hoped he would respond, I felt his soft fur against my hand and immediately took him from that dark room.”
“I don’t know what’s going on there or what they’re doing to these dogs, but they all seemed like family pets that didn’t belong there.”
Teresa took Angel to a veterinarian, who said Angel had picked up cat flu and is going through a lot of stress at the moment.
“My family and I are so happy to have found Angel, but I want to warn other people about what happened, because this is definitely not the first time,” Teresa said.
This incident was brought to the attention of the Brakpan SAPS.
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