Stop What You Are Doing Toronto, Some Fucker Just Stole 16 Dogs

The three dogs pictured above were among those stolen Friday morning outside a Toronto condo. Photos via Twitter

Update: The dogs, and van, have been found. Yay!

A white Ford panel van containing up to 16 dogs was stolen Friday morning outside a condo in the Fort York area of Toronto, CP24 reports. The vehicle, Ontario licence plate AM34 530, belongs to Soulmutts Toronto Ltd., a pet daycare company. It was stolen at 215 Fort York Blvd. near Bathurst Street while one of the company’s workers was picking up another dog.

Police have yet to track down the vehicle, but have released the following description of the alleged dognapper: a six-foot-tall white male. Obviously.

The pet daycare worker claims that the van was locked while they were collecting the another client’s dog in the condo. They had left the vehicle running with the air conditioning on for the puppers, and had taken a second car key inside with them. They were planning on taking the dogs to a local park for a walk at the time the vehicle was stolen.

Several of the missing dogs’ owners have posted on social media about the incident:

Alison Fordero, who owns Soulmutts Toronto Ltd., told CP24 that investigators informed her there has been a recent string of auto thefts in the Bathurst Street and Lake Shore Boulevard area where the van full of pups was stolen from.

“Please don’t turn off the AC,” Fordero said in an interview with CP24, pleading with the thief. “I don’t care about the van, I just want the dogs back.”

On November 15, another dognapping occurred in Toronto when four men on bicycles in North York stole a Shih Tzu from its owner at knifepoint.

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