Thank goodness: All is well in the world again now that the still-unnamed 10 week-old Yorkshire Terrier Puppy stolen from a Marine Park pet store has been returned. The puppy's owner, David Dietz, had been increasingly concerned that the pair of 15-year olds who stole the little furball weren't keeping up with the strict regiment of vitamins and four daily feedings.
Although the teenagers were caught trying to rob an actual person on Flatbush Avenue two weeks ago, the previous theft of the $1,400 dog from Dietz's store, Puppy Paradise, counts as grand larceny. In the end, it took the help of an unidentified woman who seemed to have the dog, but didn't want to be implicated in the theft.
The woman called the pet store and told the police to look for a note "tacked to a tree at the corner of E. 87th and Farragut Road" in nearby Canarsie, which led the police on a "wild goose chase," back towards Puppy Paradise to the nearby Floridian Diner, where the little beast was chilling in a box on top of a vending machine.
Dietz is certainly happy to have the puppy back: not just because he considers it like one of his own "adopted children," but also because the $1,400 would cover a full month's electricity bill for his struggling store.
