BusterBoo
March 7th, 2007, 10:18 AM
This was in the Ottawa Sun today.....
Daniel Labrie and his family have been kept awake all week by a nightmare scenario -- that their stolen pet has been dealt the same cruel fate as a dog left to die in a stairwell last month.
"This isn't a stereo or TV that was stolen," Labrie says. "It feels like a kidnapping happened in our family."
Blade, a nine-month-old Staffordshire terrier, was untied from a double knot attached securely in front of a Shell gas station on Merivale Rd. Sunday as Labrie was inside using the bank machine.
A witness saw a man pull Blade into a Blueline taxi parked at the gas station. It was the last time the dog was seen.
Police on case
Police are hot on the trail of the dog-napper, who has traumatized the Labrie family. They have been spending sleepless nights worrying about their cherished pet.
Along with his wife, Wendy, and their sons Jessie, 16, and Ricky, 13, Labrie has been trying to collect as much information as possible about their poached pooch.
Labrie, 40, was walking Blade to the gas station, near Woodward Ave., around 3 p.m. and tied up the dog while he went inside for only a few minutes.
When he came out, Blade was gone.
"At first I thought he broke his leash, then I started screaming his name out," Labrie recalls.
A man at the pumps told Labrie about the cab, which police have tried to trace, but it's believed the fare changed cabs after visiting a liquor store at the Hampton Park Plaza.
Where Blade is now is a mystery.
Police are waiting to receive surveillance tape from the Shell station to identify the thief, who might be named Richard, going by the name he used to order the cab.
Blade, a pit bull-type dog, is light brown and white and he was wearing a muzzle.
The family got the dog about seven months ago after a house on Kirkwood Ave. caught fire and the original owner could no longer care for the pet.
Labrie usually takes Blade for a walk on the same route every day.
Wendy Labrie, 33, can't stop worrying that Blade has been left somewhere to die, like the Boxer-type dog that was found in the stairwell of a Gloucester St. highrise in February.
Blade's thief "just ripped our home apart," Wendy says.
"He must have not had anything he's ever loved taken away from him."
Anyone with information about the stolen dog is asked to call police at 613-236-1222, ext. 2266.
Daniel Labrie and his family have been kept awake all week by a nightmare scenario -- that their stolen pet has been dealt the same cruel fate as a dog left to die in a stairwell last month.
"This isn't a stereo or TV that was stolen," Labrie says. "It feels like a kidnapping happened in our family."
Blade, a nine-month-old Staffordshire terrier, was untied from a double knot attached securely in front of a Shell gas station on Merivale Rd. Sunday as Labrie was inside using the bank machine.
A witness saw a man pull Blade into a Blueline taxi parked at the gas station. It was the last time the dog was seen.
Police on case
Police are hot on the trail of the dog-napper, who has traumatized the Labrie family. They have been spending sleepless nights worrying about their cherished pet.
Along with his wife, Wendy, and their sons Jessie, 16, and Ricky, 13, Labrie has been trying to collect as much information as possible about their poached pooch.
Labrie, 40, was walking Blade to the gas station, near Woodward Ave., around 3 p.m. and tied up the dog while he went inside for only a few minutes.
When he came out, Blade was gone.
"At first I thought he broke his leash, then I started screaming his name out," Labrie recalls.
A man at the pumps told Labrie about the cab, which police have tried to trace, but it's believed the fare changed cabs after visiting a liquor store at the Hampton Park Plaza.
Where Blade is now is a mystery.
Police are waiting to receive surveillance tape from the Shell station to identify the thief, who might be named Richard, going by the name he used to order the cab.
Blade, a pit bull-type dog, is light brown and white and he was wearing a muzzle.
The family got the dog about seven months ago after a house on Kirkwood Ave. caught fire and the original owner could no longer care for the pet.
Labrie usually takes Blade for a walk on the same route every day.
Wendy Labrie, 33, can't stop worrying that Blade has been left somewhere to die, like the Boxer-type dog that was found in the stairwell of a Gloucester St. highrise in February.
Blade's thief "just ripped our home apart," Wendy says.
"He must have not had anything he's ever loved taken away from him."
Anyone with information about the stolen dog is asked to call police at 613-236-1222, ext. 2266.