[ SHOWGSD-L ] PRTs Recovery

  • From: "Ginger Cleary" <cleary1414@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Showgsd-L@Freelists. Org" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 22:27:56 -0400


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

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