Losing Faith in Humanity

I'll keep this brief:

Yesterday, between the hours of 1pm and 3pm while my mom was shopping at Target, burglars entered the house I grew up at, rifled through my family's jewelery boxes, took rings and earrings, ipad and macbook, and then decided to take my mothers puppy.

That's right, the thieves took my mom's dog.  I don't have words, and our whole family is beside itself with grief.  How could someone be so brazen?  Why would they take her?  That's our pet!  Imprinted on us!  Who would do such a thing.

Franklin Township (Somerset, NJ) police are on the job.  Officers and detectives took descriptions of everything, and, yes, a description of the dog.  The RFID company that manages the microchip database has been put on alert that she's been stolen.  Any vet who scans her will immediately be

As a technophile, I armed the "lock" feature on both the laptop and ipad should someone attempt to access the internet with them.  Sure enough, at 7pm, the iPad triggered the alarm and locked up.  A map was e-mailed to my mom's account, and I was able to see the location as well using iCloud.com.  E-mail and map image were texted/sent to the detective on call, and they went to the location.  Because this was triggered by wifi access, a precise location is all but impossible, especially since it showed that the device was in a condominium complex...3 miles away from my parent's house, in New Brunswick. 

Officers went to the scene and observed.  TV teaches us that without a warrant and specific location information, it would be difficult to ascertain which condo was the one we would be interested in.  Instead, they noted the only wifi signal that was broadcasting, and took the license plate numbers of all parked cars so that they could confer with New Brunswick Police to see if there are any repeat offenders living there.

Then, at 10pm, the laptop alarm went off.  Sure enough, same location.  Again we contacted the detective on duty providing him with the alerts and maps he would need.  And, now we wait.  New Brunswick Police have been briefed, and have already done 'drive-bys.'  Our detective had reached out to some of the "gold for cash" shops in the area.  And, we're really just waiting to see who walks outside with our dog on our leash.

In the meantime, we are posting fliers at police departments in English and Spanish.  Local news TV has been contacted to report the story.  We took an ad out on NJ.com and in the Star Ledger with a picture of Pepper.  And we wait and pray that someone will be half as kind to Pepper as we were...seeing that she gets fed...and water...and treated well, until she can be returned to us.  If you have any connections in the New Brunswick greater area, please share our story.  Share our FaceBook post.  Help us bring it to light that, what we want more than anything else, is just the return of our dog...our family member.