The two-pound canine could also be vulnerable to hypoglycemia and will die, in keeping with Bianca Rose Larsen.
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Two folks had been caught on surveillance video shoplifting a pet from a pet retailer in Centennial.
Bianca Rose Larsen manages Excellent Pets on College Boulevard. She stated a younger girl and younger man took a toy feminine Pomeranian that weighs solely about 2 kilos when she when she momentarily left the room.
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“As quickly as I am going to the again proper there, they make a run for it,” Larsen stated, whereas exhibiting surveillance video of the incident.
Larsen stated the toy Pomeranian taken Thursday price $3,200.
“I am actually involved in regards to the canine,” Larsen stated. “Shoplifting a pet is a lot totally different than stealing a giant TV or sweet or one thing like that.”
She stated the theft does not hassle her as a lot as a possible well being downside.
“These little teacup and toy breeds are vulnerable to hypoglycemia which is low blood sugar,” Larsen defined. “So, if that pet goes too lengthy with out consuming, which could possibly be a matter of some hours, its blood sugar may drop too low, much like somebody who’s diabetic and so they can die from it, simply.”
Pet thefts are nothing new, Larsen stated. All through the pandemic, she stated they’re taking place extra typically.
“All through COVID we have truly gotten extra puppies stolen than the complete seven prior years that we’ve got been right here,” Larsen stated.
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She needs folks to take a look at the pictures of the thieves captured on surveillance video with hopes of getting the stolen canine again.
“What I’m hoping for greater than something is the protected return of the pet in good well being,” Larsen stated.
Perfects Pets is providing a $500 reward on this case. Anybody who could know one thing in regards to the crime ought to contact the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Workplace.
“It is terrifying,” Larsen stated. “It’s extremely regarding and I simply actually hope the pet is okay.”
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