JERSEY CITY AND BEYOND — It was 2:30 a.m. on Easter Sunday when Jersey City resident Lisa Fadden tied her black Scottie dog outside of the Journal Square 7-11 to pick up milk. She kept her eye on the dog the whole time.
While she was about to buy her groceries, she saw a man untie her dog and start to walk away with him.
She dropped her groceries and gave chase. She was close, but the man got into a car with the dog and sped off on Sip Avenue.
“I almost had my hand on the handle of the car, but he sped right off,” she said Tuesday morning. “He was in a white Lexus with a sunroof.”
She also got the license plate.
When the police responded, she gave them the license plate number. She said that in the car, a report came in over radio that the car was a Jersey City car, and that it was “nearby.”
However, she said said the police would not elaborate, and have not given her any information since.
It’s now been two days.
She is desperate to find her dog and is offering a $500 reward, no questions asked. She just wants her little dog back.
She said, “Here’s the story. A year ago from Mother’s Day I was going to go see my mother. I heard a dog yelping. I looked out my window. I saw a little black dog yelping, pinned under a car. The car had hit him. Traffic was stopped in both directions.”
People were staring at the dog under the tire, not helping. Fadden put him in her house and nursed him for a few days. His snout and leg were injured. He had trouble opening his mouth, so she had to feed him with an eye dropper she got at the pharmacy.
“I nursed him back and he’s my kid,” she said on the phone, choking back tears. “I have a 38-year-old daughter. I’m a widow. This is my baby. I’ve had him for two years now.” She’s offering $500, no questions asked. “I don’t want to prosecute. I just want my dog back,” she said.
And she will also give rewards to those who give her information as to where the dog is.
She can be reached at (201) 222-0282 with any information, and the police are at (201) 547-5477.
Information can also be sent to Bethe Schwartz at schwartzbethe@yahoo.com.