A Los Angeles County couple is pleading for their French Bulldog’s safe return after she was stolen from them at gunpoint while on a late-night walk.
Mario and Maria Felix were walking two of their French Bulldogs near their Montebello home around 10 p.m. Sunday night when a man approached Mario at the corner of Victoria and Wilcox avenues while he was several feet away from his wife.
The suspect then pointed a gun at him and demanded his Rolex watch, cash and his 2-year-old French Bulldog, Jennifer, Mario said.
Despite Mario begging him to keep the dog, the thief ripped Jennifer’s leash out of Mario’s possession and fled.
Video surveillance footage from a nearby building obtained by the couple shows the alleged thief exiting a sedan, and moments later, running back towards the car with what appears to be a leash with a dog on it behind him.
According to Mario, the stolen Rolex is the least important thing on his mind.
“They stole my property, [but] I don’t care about that,” he told KTLA 5’s Kimberly Cheng. “All I care about is Jennifer.”
“We don’t have kids together, so [our dogs] are our babies,” Mario added. “[They are] all we have.”
Jennifer is a spotted brown French Bulldog that weighs approximately 25 pounds. The couple has filed a police report.
Anyone with information regarding the theft or Jennifer’s whereabouts is urged to contact the Montebello Police Department.