Stolen from Maui
On 11/16/2010, I received an email from Stephanie Sheveland; she and her family bought the male from our "A" litter. Atticus had
joined them and their female Rottweiler, Koda, in their beautiful Kaanapali area home. Stephanie told me:
Hi,
It's with a heavy heart I write you this email. Both Koda and Atticus were STOLEN from our yard a few months ago. It's been absolutely DEVASTATING to our family. I'm not sure my heart has ever been this broken. I know they were stolen because we had heard rumors of weird local ice heads hanging out behind our house in the Pineapple fields and weilding guns on their dirt bikes and telling people they could no longer walk back there. I know they took them. Obviously the cops were informed, but with no leads, it's been one dead end after another on this huge island.
My kids cry for them it seems on a daily basis. I'm wondering if I did the wrong thing by raising nice dogs. I wish Atticus would have ripped the throats out of whomever took him, but I didn't raise him to be a mean dog, so I suppose he just went with someone. They both had their choke chains on, and I knew right away when I got home someone took them. I saw shoeprints AND the dog prints leading from my fence quite a ways on the road behind our house.
Heartbroken. Not giving up though. I know whoever took them will try to breed them for money. Koda was due for a heat three weeks ago, which means if she got pregnant, there will be puppies born in not too long.
Please pray for their safe return for us. Please be on the lookout for "Pure Bred" Rotties with no papers and with mom and dad on site. There aren't many on this island, and I KNOW what my dogs look like. Atticus was only 15 months old and GIANT, at 115 lbs of pure male muscle ready to challenge ANYONE.
I know you have been thru horrible things with your dogs in the past, so you are probably the only ones on the planet that understand my pain. I feel as though my children have been taken from me, kidnapped....
It's with a heavy heart I write you this email. Both Koda and Atticus were STOLEN from our yard a few months ago. It's been absolutely DEVASTATING to our family. I'm not sure my heart has ever been this broken. I know they were stolen because we had heard rumors of weird local ice heads hanging out behind our house in the Pineapple fields and weilding guns on their dirt bikes and telling people they could no longer walk back there. I know they took them. Obviously the cops were informed, but with no leads, it's been one dead end after another on this huge island.
My kids cry for them it seems on a daily basis. I'm wondering if I did the wrong thing by raising nice dogs. I wish Atticus would have ripped the throats out of whomever took him, but I didn't raise him to be a mean dog, so I suppose he just went with someone. They both had their choke chains on, and I knew right away when I got home someone took them. I saw shoeprints AND the dog prints leading from my fence quite a ways on the road behind our house.
Heartbroken. Not giving up though. I know whoever took them will try to breed them for money. Koda was due for a heat three weeks ago, which means if she got pregnant, there will be puppies born in not too long.
Please pray for their safe return for us. Please be on the lookout for "Pure Bred" Rotties with no papers and with mom and dad on site. There aren't many on this island, and I KNOW what my dogs look like. Atticus was only 15 months old and GIANT, at 115 lbs of pure male muscle ready to challenge ANYONE.
I know you have been thru horrible things with your dogs in the past, so you are probably the only ones on the planet that understand my pain. I feel as though my children have been taken from me, kidnapped....
Anybody on Maui that might see Atticus and Koda, please contact Stephanie at stephanie4maui@hotmail.com
or me or law enforcement. Dog theft seems to be epidemic in Hawaii and we should all be on guard.