A French bulldog belonging to Madielyn Magdales of Nanaimo went missing from a parking lot in Kamloops on May 2.
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May 11, 2023 - 6:00 PM
A Nanaimo woman whose dog went missing from her parked car in Kamloops is asking the public for help and offering a $2,000 reward to get it returned.
Madielyn Magdales believes her French bulldog was stolen from her car around noon in the parking lot of Canada’s Best Value Inn and Suites on Columbia Avenue on May 2.
“I’m worried sick, my dogs are my children,” she said. “I miss Luna so bad and not knowing where she is and how she’s doing is so painful.”
Magdales was travelling with friends from Nanaimo to Grande Prairie to look at a farm property when one of the cars kept stalling so they decided to stay in Kamloops for a night. The next day they decided to keep travelling and were getting ready to go. The dog was sitting in the car with a window rolled down while she was inside packing up.
“My other drivers saw a large group of adults and families in the parking lot and some looking at the dog but they didn’t know she was taken,” she said. “When I checked she was gone.”
She said she asked the motel staff for surveillance footage but they didn’t have a camera where she was parked.
“I phoned the police and they referred me to Kamloops Animal Control, so I phoned them and the SPCA and asked them to keep a lookout for her,” she said. “I stayed another night, looking for her.”
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The dog is a small one-year-old chocolate brindle French bulldog named Luna which has a distinguishing white mark on her chest. She doesn’t have a tattoo or microchip. Magdales said the dog is “super friendly.”
“I have someone in Kamloops looking for her and a friend from Nanaimo is going there,” she said. “Media posts are being shared to the lower mainland in just in case. I'm asking everyone to please spread the word, I need her found."
Last year the Canadian Kennel club rated French Bulldogs as the fifth most popular dog breed in the country.
Magdales is asking anyone with information on the dog’s whereabouts to contact her on Facebook here or send her an email.
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