You really have to be careful when you leave your dog (Video)

While shopping, the young woman tied her little dog outside the store. When she came out, no more traces of her dog. The Nassau County Police Department released video footage from a security camera on Woodfield Road in Lakeview showing a man walking up to a dog that was tied up by its leash outside a store, picking up the dog, and walking back to his parked SUV, and putting the dog in the back seat. 

The male dognapper was spotted approaching the Pomeranian mix outside the store on Woodfield Road in Lakeview. The pooch, which was tied up outside by its leash, barked briefly as the suspect walked towards it, the surveillance footage showed. He quickly reached down and grabbed the dog before calmly walking away with it tucked under his arm.

The scene was filmed by the store’s surveillance camera

The suspect was then filmed stashing the dog in the back seat of his black BMW SUV parked just feet away from the store. Cops were alerted to the theft after the owner came out of the store and realized his dog had vanished. It wasn’t immediately clear how long the dog owner was in the store. Investigators described the suspect as approximately 5 feet 9, wearing beige pants, a beige sweater, a puffy beige vest and a Yankees baseball cap with a long black braid. Watch the video, you really have to be careful when you leave your dog, even if it’s only for a few minutes!