Missing chihuahua dog Diego’s owners have promised a reward worth $1,000 to any person who brings their pet back safely. Diego was left behind in a pickup truck that someone stole from the parking space of a hotel in Huntington Beach earlier this year.
The owner of the vehicle and Diego, Scott Hern, stated that the truck was only parked there for a while with the dog sitting in it. Hern had just helped his family members check into the hotel as he saw the pickup truck going away from the parking space at around 4:00 pm on December 12, 2021. For your information, it is a Chevy Silverado truck with a customized lightbar.
Hern stated that he ran a long distance and yelled at the driver that his dog was in the vehicle. He only wanted the truck operator to let the dog out so that he could pick it up. He has barely slept after the incident. The docker also stated that his house has been way too quiet as it does not have the dog in the family chair to greet him following a long workday.
He took a break from work to put fliers in Costa Mesa, San Clemente, Buena Park, Westminster, Huntington Beach, Long Beach, and Laguna Beach. His family will offer $1,000 to a person who brings the dog back home or to a facility that accommodates lost or homeless animals.
A teary-eyed Hern requested the person to feed Diego and take it to that facility as well as reveal that they have found the animal. Hern stated that his family sought the help of social media users and has got support in an uncontrolled way. Some people have delivered photographs of recently discovered brown chihuahua dogs that resemble Diego, but those were not the dog’s pictures.
Hern stated that people could identify Diego as it has excessively long nails and is not above 20 centimeters tall. He also stated that it does a happy dance and often stands on its legs as anyone says its name. Hern also described Diego as a skittish dog with eyes resembling the eyes of a doe that experiences heart murmurs.
In 2017, Hern’s relatives took the dog in after its earlier owners were no longer able to look after it. The dog became the best friend of Hern over time, and he stated that he could not avoid feeling partially at fault for its seemingly inadvertent abduction.
Hern usually does not leave Diego behind in the vehicle, but he did so this time around perhaps because it was only for some minutes. Now, he wonders whether something could have been done about it if he got back 60 seconds earlier.