HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — The Harris County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after two women were caught on camera burrowing underneath a fence and then luring a family’s Great Pyrenees puppy with food.
Oso had only been a part of the family for a week, his 18-year-old owner said, when he vanished from the family’s backyard on Debbie Lane in north Harris County the night of April 19. It happened just hours before the teen’s birthday.
“It was just really hard to want to celebrate anything right after that,” he told Eyewitness News.
Video shows the women scoping out the family’s backyard around 8 p.m. from the apartment complex next door.
They return an hour later and start digging under the fence.
One woman then reaches under the newly created opening, holding what the sheriff’s office said was food.
“She reaches under, and you see him wandering closer, and, like, they lured him. He was a puppy,” said the dog owner.
The motion-activated camera doesn’t capture the exact moment the puppy is taken. But his owner said it doesn’t take a genius to figure out what happened.
“They broke up a family, they, you know, dug a hole, went to these lengths to steal our family dog,” he said.
Anyone with information that leads to Oso’s return can contact Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.
The owner said he wouldn’t press charges if the pup is safely returned.
“I just want that piece of our family back,” he said.
This story comes from our news partner ABC13 Houston.