A local woman recently filed an incident report with the Carson City Sheriff’s Office for grand larceny, indicating her dog was stolen from her by a man she had just started dating.
The reader says she met someone on a dating app who then allegedly stole her dog Dice a French bulldog. She says she has limited mobility and that Dice was her lifeline.
“This person seemed to adore Frenchies as much as I did,” she wrote about the moments they initially texted each other. “We matched, chatted for days and finally decided to meet at my place.”
The reader says her date “gushed” about how well behaved Dice was, and kept asking “probing questions” about her disability, her routine and how much Dice had cost, which looking back now she said were “red flags.”
Following that first encounter, she says that “after a long day at work I let him take my dog on a walk,” but that they never came back.
At one point, after she texted in a panic, he wrote that he would be back but then that didn’t happen, and the dog now remains missing.
“He’d used my vulnerability against me, exploiting my disability to steal the one creature that gave my life purpose,” she wrote. “I am hoping to get coverage to the community and help me to find my dog and get this guy locked up for stealing my puppy,” she concluded in a message trying to get help.
She has been posting about her ordeal on NextDoor and Carson City Facebook pages as well.
Our Town Reno reporting, June 2025