Ginger Cleary He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. ~Thomas Paine My Ebay site <http://members.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=ginny2003> Rome, GA http://www.rihadin.com/ This is the account of the recovery of the PRTs, written by the owner, Liz McKinney. This has been the craziest day I can remember in my entire life. I am grateful to God to have my boys back home. I'm grateful for all of your prayers. I am grateful to have a wonderful group of supportive friends who have gone all out to help us recover Tyke and Desi. I am grateful to the unnamed man in Charlotte who, for whatever reason, phoned Beverly's mother. I have to talk to the police in Charlotte-Mecklenburg county tomorrow, but here are a few details. My name and telephone number is on ALL of my crates clearly marked in LARGE letters with a sharpie. There was also a air bill with Beverly's name, address and phone number still attached to the crate and that is where this man got Bev's contact information. So I imagine 2 names and telephone numbers were confusing at best. It was a stroke of luck that Bonnie Edison called Bev to tell her about Tyke's theft and that is when Bev's mother told Bonnie about a strange call from a man that lives in Charlotte who wanted to talk with Beverly about a Jack Russell Terrier. I think he left the message on her answering machine and said he would call back, which he did. The man who called Beverly and got Bev's mother did give his first name, address and what I thought was probably a cell phone number because it didn't come up on their caller ID. I phoned him and the description matched my boys. He said he had paid for the dogs and wanted the money back he had paid and that was all he wanted. He said the dogs were in their crates safely at his house. I called Susan who had been in contact with the police and Fox Charlotte television station. And Suzy is correct that I rarely turn a television on. Once a week is about it for me. I just am not a TV watcher at all and never have been. At any rate I gave Susan the man's first name, his address and telephone number. We thought it was probably a cell phone number and it was. I told her if she didn't hear from us by 9 PM to call the police because we were either dead or in big trouble. This area was, according to the police, the worst part of Charlotte to go into, and we had been told not to go near that area. The female police woman said she doesn't go in alone EVER. Nevertheless, when one is confronted with getting a living creature that you love back your choices are to risk sending the police in and never seeing your dog again or risking your own safety. I decided I couldn't risk Tyke's and Desi's lives. Stupid perhaps but it did work out. And since Susan, Bonnie and Bev's mom knew the address we were going to and the telephone number it would have been dumber for anyone to hurt us. When we drove up the man was standing outside of his house obviously waiting for us and pacing. He didn't want us to go inside (hey, that worked since we weren't going to anyway) but he brought out the larger crate with Desi, our 9 month old puppy in it. He then told us that one of his friends had the "other dog" and was going to bring him right over. He said that he had too many dogs and he needed to move one of them temporarily out. He phoned his friend who said he would be there in 10 minutes. Thirty minutes later no dog. This man called his friend several times and by this point it was 8:45 PM, just 15 minutes before Susan was going to call the police and send them in. I can't even imagine the worry that Susan was going through wondering if we were dead or alive because we should have been able to get the boys and be out of there by 7 PM. Finally, I told them man that I needed to call "a friend" because if I didn't by 9 PM she was going to phone the police to come find us. The man walked back into his house and made a phone call to his friend. I imagine he was saying something like "Get that dog back NOW because the cops are going to be screaming in here in 15 minutes". I literally had to beg Susan not to call the police and told her to give us a bit more time because the man was supposed to be driving up any minute. It was another 15 minutes and Lynn and I were getting REAL nervous by now, but the man assured us that Tyke would be delivered. The friend finally did arrive with my sweet Tyke in his crate. Seems his daughter wanted to and planned on keeping Tyke as her pet. He was sporting a brand new flea collar and obviously had been well fed. Tyke is a chow hound and boy was he full. The friend and his daughter did not get out of their SUV but Lynn grabbed the crate as soon as it was lifted out of their vehicle, I counted out the cash required to get my dogs back and called Susan from his phone. This time I made the call to Susan on his house line on a portable phone. Here is another point where miracles happen. We aren't in the habbit of having hundreds and hundreds of dollars on us. Lynn had, for some unknown reason, cashed a large paycheck and had the cash. Lynn NEVER has cash on her. She just doesn't, but today she had a boat load of cash and so I had the cash readily available. I don't know who is guilty and who isn't. I don't believe this man who made the call to Bev's mom was involved in breaking into my truck and stealing the 2 boys because we had a cell phone number and his address (or at least someone's address). This man has small children and his 2 year old son was riding his bike calling him "Daddy". I do believe he knows who did but honestly, at this point I just don't care because I have my boys back safe and sound. Whether this was a planned scam I don't know. His house was less than a mile from the Motel 6. I can tell you when someone has your animals you will do whatever you believe you need to do to keep them safe, not at risk and get them back alive and unharmed. Perhaps tomorrow I'll be thinking more clearly, but right now Lynn and I are both exhausted, head pounding from crying and grateful beyond any words I can come up with to have my boys back. I believe we came really close to not getting Tyke back at all. I also wonder if one of these terriers had been a female instead of 2 males if we would have seen them again. Jessica Eggleston Bygodde Beagles Saratoga Springs, NY ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2006. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. 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