Moo's money making scheme--steal a dog

Mom allegedly tells girls to steal dog

March 29, 2007

ANTIOCH, Calif. --A woman who allegedly instructed her two young daughters to steal a neighbor's dog was arrested on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and grand theft.

Nora Vasquez' arrest Wednesday came a week after her daughters, ages 7 and 9, told their elementary school principal they snatched the missing mutt on their mother's orders.

A witness to the daylight dog-napping earlier this month told investigators that he saw two girls jump out of an SUV and grab the pooch from a neighbor's porch while a woman shouted at them to hurry.

"We wonder why our children wind up the way they do," said Antioch Police Lt. Pat Welch. "It's unbelievable someone would take a 7- and 9-year-old and encourage them to do that and think it's appropriate behavior."

Vasquez, 35, acknowledged she told the girls to get the dog, a 1-year-old Chihuahua-Pekinese mix named Guppi, but told investigators she thought the pet was in danger from another dog nearby, according to Welch.

Vazquez was released on $20,000 bail, Welch said. The Associated Press could not find a listed telephone number for her.

The sisters first came under suspicion in Guppi's disappearance when a school librarian noticed one of them reacting strangely to a sign the dog's owners posted offering a reward for its return. The pair was summoned into the principal's office, where they confessed, according to Welch.

Nice. What a fine example of banner pahrunting skills. Why am I not surprised? I'm glad the girls ratted their trashy ho-bag moo out. I hope they realize what moo told them to do was WRONG and should never do it in the future.

Sometimes kids that have good sense all on their own and are being raised by a whack-o actually grow up to be contributing members of society because they see what their life should NOT be. Let's hope this is the case here.

By the way, Guppi was the name of the American twin's stuffed dog in that movie, "The Parent Trap." Very cute.

Well, I guess I could add forced petty crime to the extremely short list of things kids are actually good for...

While I have to question if it was one of those cases where people steal a neighbor's pet because they're tired of watching it be abused...I doubt it.

What's the BS the mum spouted, though? If you think the dog is in immediate danger, you remove it and then RETURN IT as soon as it's safe, and you let the neighbor know what happened. Did she really think that attempt would hold water??

But don't we all know PMYABP? Three letters: FTS.

Okay...I'm the slow one...
What does PMYAPB mean?

I think it means Pahrunting Makes You A Better Person.