A pet owner experienced one of the most terrifying scenarios for anyone with a fur baby when a group of tourists attempted to steal her dog.
Taking to social media, influencer Montse Rivera recounted the incident with her cousin. She said they were hanging out in Cancún, Mexico, when the tourists ran away with her puppy.
"Two gringos almost stole my dog," she said. "We were chilling, and out of nowhere, they approached us and said, 'Wow, look at your dog!'"
Highlights
- A dog owner said two tourists attempted to flee with her puppy in Mexico.
- Montse Rivera denounced the incident on social media.
- After the tourists ran away with her dog, she began to scream and managed to rescue her pet.
Image credits: Donato Gamboa / Unsplash (Not the actual photo)
One of the tourists, a man, directly snatched the pet out of the owner's hands and started kissing it.
Then, another woman took it from the man's hands. "She said, 'Omg, it's adorable. Can I take it with me? And we were like, 'No, you can't.'"
However, the pair paid little attention to the owner's response and began running away with the pup.
The American tourists reportedly snatched the dog from its owner's hands and ran way
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"I started screaming like crazy, 'They're trying to steal my dog! They're trying to steal my dog!' And they were so fast."
While the women were telling the story, the adorable black-and-brown puppy rested safely on its owner's lap, which indicates that their screams deterred the dog thieves.
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Speaking with Bored Panda, Montse confirmed that the tourists involved were from the United States. The incident occurred at a pier in the Mexican vacation spot, just before the tourists boarded a boat for a tour.
"There were three people: two men and a woman. One of the men started talking to me. When I turned around, the woman had almost boarded the boat with my dog.
"When I realized what was happening, I started screaming and chasing them. They immediately ran in the opposite direction.
"Everyone turned to look because of the screams, and the tourists began to feel everyone staring at them."
If she hadn't acted quickly, the tourist might have sailed off with the puppy. "By that time, everyone on their tour was already on the boat, and they were about to leave."
The owner and her friend began screaming and eventually managed to deter the thieves
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Montse adopted Piti, her 1-year-old Pomeranian, when he was just six months old. "He's super special—not only to me but also to my family. We had never had a dog before; our previous pets were tortoises and a fish. We fell in love with him the moment we saw him, and that's why he's so special."
The video sparked a wave of reactions from horrified pet owners. "Thank God my dog bites as soon as you try to grab her," one of them wrote.
"And how did the story end? I want to know how they got the dog back," another said.
"It seems that it is time to impose sanctions on foreigners who break the law," commented somebody else.
"I don't blame them for trying to steal the dog," a separate user joked, while another added, "If it happened to me, I would teach him a little Mexican hospitality and kindness."
Somebody else said: "I hope they were arrested for robbery. It stopped being an attempted robbery when they ran away!"
In September, a pair of thieves from Escatepec, Mexico, returned a Yorkshire Terrier they had stolen after being harassed when the animal's owner exposed them on social media.
Montse adopted Piti, her merle Pomeranian, when he was six months old
The woman who stole Kuquis, the dog, appeared with him at his owner's home in the State of Mexico with the aim of returning him and demanding that the owner stop sharing photos of her face online, Milenio reported.
She had reportedly been harassed by neighbors who recognized her in the footage, which showed her and her partner taking the dog by lifting him and passing him through the bars of the house.
In Mexico City, the country's capital, dog theft has increased by 125% in the last 12 years, according to a study by Hellosafe. Dogs are often stolen to be resold or bred to produce more offspring, kidnapped for ransom, or used in illegal fights.
In December, Deputy Alberto Vanegas Arenas proposed a three-year prison sentence for pet theft in Mexico City (CDMX).