Stolen dog, Ted, reunited with Hollywood family ahead of holidays
A family has been reunited with their dog days after they say a pair of thieves broke into their SUV and made off with their Yorkshire Terrier named Ted.
On Sunday, Ted was returned to his family who say someone had dropped him off at an animal shelter the night prior by an unidentified woman. Ted spent six days away from his family after being snatched from their SUV last Tuesday.
Security video captured the moments when Ted had been taken from the locked SUV near Sunset Boulevard and Formosa Avenue. The family had stepped away from the car briefly to grab takeout at Bossa Nova Brazilian Cuisine in Hollywood when someone broke the passenger side window of their car and took off with Ted.
After the theft, the family filed a police report, and offered a reward for the safe return of Ted, who is microchipped.
Now reunited with their beloved pup, the Millspaugh family is calling the event nothing short of a holiday miracle.
"My nightmare would be showing up and it's not Ted, or it's a different dog," said Sid Millspaugh. "In this type of situation, how much can you hope that it has a happy ending like this? Tonight it had a happy ending."
They say that Ted seems both happy and healthy now that he's home.