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Woman seeking dog she said was sold online
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
All Ashley Perrine can do now is wait.
Someone took her pit bull puppy Monday, and she believes it was sold shortly after.
She made a police report, and a detective has been assigned to her case to try and get her dog Latte back. She got Latte about two weeks ago from her landlord.
“I’m really just playing the waiting game,” Perrine said Wednesday.
Perrine said about 12:15 p.m. Monday she put Latte and her other dog out at her home on Parkview Avenue. She said her boyfriend went out to get the dogs a few moments later, but Latte was gone.
Perrine then canvassed her street and streets around her home but found no sign of the dog.
She said she then went to a site on Facebook to ask for help in locating Latte. There, she said she saw a picture of Latte posted by a woman who was trying to sell the dog for $200.
Perrine said she tried to get in touch with the woman and exchanged messages with her until the woman told Perrine the dog was gone.
Perrine called police and the Mahoning County Dog Warden’s Office, and said she later found out Latte was sold.
Jason Cooke, an animal-rights activist who is helping Perrine, said Wednesday he met with police on her behalf and a detective has been assigned to her case.
Cooke said the case is troubling.
“Not only was the dog taken but within an hour, the dog was on social media and within two hours, the dog was gone,” Cooke said.
Cooke recommended that people get their dogs licensed and microchipped to make it easier to get them back if they are taken.
Cooke said on social media Perrine’s post about Latte being taken has been shared about 8,000 times. He said he hopes the pressure would make whoever has Latte to give her back to Perrine.