By Bill Lindelof
blindelof@sacbee.com
Three puppies advertised on www.sacbee.com were scooped up from Eileen Mackin's property and she wants them back.
Mackin, a Citrus Heights resident, said three young men came to her home Wednesday about 7:30 p.m. after one of them first telephoned about the puppies listed on The Bee's site (an earlier version of this story said the puppies were advertised for sale on Craigslist. However, Mackin called The Bee in the afternoon to say she had misunderstood a relative who had placed the ad for her).
Mackin had four eight-week-old Shitzu puppies left from a litter of six. The purebred puppies, Mackin said, were worth about $600 each.
Two puppies from the litter had already been sold. Four were left when the theft of the three tri-colored Shitzus - two boys, one girl - occurred. (In photo below, the stolen puppies and the black puppy and two of the brown and white puppies).
The three dog thieves each grabbed one puppy when her daughter-in-law showed the puppies on the front porch of the home in the 700 block of Highland Avenue.
The dognappers then got into their car, which they had backed into the Mackin driveway, and sped away.
"They swooped up the puppies," she said. "Then they sped out the driveway. The tracks are still there."
Mackin, who was not present at the time of the theft, said she has reported the theft to the Citrus Heights police department.
She requested that anyone who can help return the puppies to call police at (916) 727-5500.
Police are investigating the theft of the puppies.
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