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Women Steal 'Morkie' Puppy From Loveland Pet Store

LOVELAND, Colo. (CBS4) - Loveland police are asking the public to help identify two women who distracted a store employee and made off with a 4-month-old puppy earlier this month.

"These two people, they really plotted it out," store owner Mark Aine told CBS4 Friday. "They had it planned."

The pair entered the Town & Country Pet Center on South Cleveland Avenue on Nov. 18. As a red-haired woman distracted the employee on duty, a brown-haired woman snuck into the back of the store, opened a kennel, and stuffed the small dog inside her down coat, according to Aine.

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The two then left the store "in a big, sad hurry," he added.

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(credit: Town & Country Pet Center)

The puppy is a Morkie, or Yorkshire Terrier-Maltese mix, and retails for $1,288 at the Town & Country store.

"This one was still too tiny to jump up on a couch or jump down from a couch," Aine said.

 

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