Diamond's Story
This is a sad story and a story that makes me angry. I'm angry because there are thieves
that steal our loved pets and angry because the Dallas law enforcement authorities
give these thieves a free pass. It's sad because my dear Canine friend Diamond and
his son Cosmo are gone and I know who took them but my hands are legally tied.
They can steal, take hostage, but I can do nothing except go to Dallas City Council
and try to get a law passed, which I have been doing for the past two years.
What happened to my dogs could happen to your pets. Here is Diamond’s story:
Father, Diamond, mother, Dusty, and son, Cosmo were in the front yard. I live and
work in a warehouse near downtown Dallas. The photograph above is them playing
in my front yard. Cosmo was on a long tether playing with his mom, Dusty. Diamond
was just sitting on the grass. I went in to
ansewer the phone and when I came out the mom and son were gone, the tether was cut and Diamond was visibly upset.
What I'm pretty sure happened was that Pablo took Cosmo, because he was tied
up and could not get away and his mom follow them to the car and was also caught
and she and her son where taken away. They both had two tags each on them with
my phone number and address on them. They also both had ID chips in them.
I gave the person (Pablo) that took them three days to call me to return my Huskies
or time to take them to a vet or shelter to be check out for a chip. After three days I
new that they had been stolen and I made a police report stating that my dogs had
been stolen. My dogs were taken on a Thursday 10-25-07, I made the police report
on Saturday 10-27-07. The next Tuesday 10-30-07 the Garland shelter called me
saying that a man, Eddie, had brought Dusty in saying that Pablo had given him the
dog and that he was checking for a microchip. She had her same collar on but the
tags she had on were gone. They scan her and found the ID chip that I had put in
her, and called me. I pick up Dusty and got Eddie's phone number. I called Eddie
and found out that Pablo had given Dusty to him on Sunday and that Pablo still had
Cosmo when he had pick up Dusty. I asked Eddie to call Pablo to see if he still had
Cosmo. Eddie called me back in two hours on that Tuesday and said that Pablo
had told him that he had given Cosmo away. I found out from a witness that Pablo
still had Cosmo until Friday. I call the police, right away with the case number and
told them where Cosmo, that was reported stolen, was. They called Eddie and got
Pablo address the next day. Gave the information to Detective Strodtman of the
Dallas Police Department and he did nothing for two days and then went home for
a long weekend while my dog Cosmo was on a very short chain and barely being
fed by Pablo. My witness said that she was trying to feed the dogs and get Pablo
to take Cosmo to a vet and check for a microchip, she new that Cosmo was stolen,
but Pablo would not. It took Strodtman until the next Monday 11-5-07 to go out to
Pablo's house to rescue my dog Cosmo, by that time Pablo had already moved him
to a friend’s house. Pablo told Strodtman that he had my AKC Huskies and gave
away my dogs, which is a crime, Ordinance 7-4.5, and Strodtman let him go,
close the case so no one else could do anything on the case and call Pablo a
good samaritan for taking my dogs and not returning back to the owner, me. Cosmo was gone, never to be seen again. The police told me there was nothing
they could do but that I could sue him. I did and won. Pablo owes me $20,000.00,
and I dout if I will ever see a penny of it.
Thanks,