About 11:30 a.m. Monday, Isaiah Ramos and Charlee Johnston were walking their 18-month-old French bulldog, Meech, around their downtown Los Angeles apartment complex.
“He called 911 right away,” Johnston said. “He was very calm and just focused on the goal, like, ‘Let’s get this figured out,’” she said. “But I was just in shock. I could not even process it.”After the dog was taken by men in an SUV, detectives tracked the rental car to a man in Philadelphia, and the dog’s owner flew out to get him.
The couple posted about the incident in several social media forums, sharing the images of the dog thieves’ car that Ramos had taken. On Tuesday, Johnston received a call from a woman in response to the postings who said she saw the gray Frenchie wandering around. The couple, hopeful but cautious, contacted police before meeting the woman at a veterinarian’s office to confirm the dog’s identity through a microchip.The dog was shaken, exhausted and “not acting like himself,” but he was unharmed, the couple said.