dognapper dye pitbull but dog identified by microchip
Idiot dognappers dye Coco the brown pit bull BLACK in bid to throw authorities off the scent... but get caught after dog’s microchip alerts owners
Coco disappeared from her Southern California home on Thanksgiving
A month later, she was found by animal control officers, but was a completely different color from her usual reddish brown
Officials say the black dye was an attempt to deceive the people looking for Coco
Coco, a reddish-brown pit bull with white markings, went missing from her Southern California home on Thanksgiving.
Nearly a month later, she was found and reunited with her owners — but she was a different color.
Riverside County animal services officials made the match when they scanned a stray, black dog for an implanted microchip and found she was listed as an 8-month-old reddish-brown pit bull adopted in October from a San Jacinto shelter.
'She actually recognized me when I went in there to verify it was her,' owner Heather Lowery told NBC Los Angeles.
'She shakes her whole body as if she were Pluto basically, and she did it again today. She jumped right on (me) and took pictures with me.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2882577/Missing-reddish-brown-pit-bull-Coco-returned-home-month-stolen-black-thief-dyed-pooch-deceive-owners-looking-her.html#ixzz3MZMgTAxz
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