Popular Food Blogger's Car Stolen With Beloved Dog Inside, Pleads For His Return
It's now been a harrowing 48 hours since a popular food blogger's car was stolen with his dog, Noodles, inside, and still no clues about the car thieves and dog nappers.
Taylor Hannon runs the incredibly popular Austin Eager blog in Austin, TX. On Friday, a distraught Hannon took to Instagram to share to his nearly 100,000 followers that his red Honda Civic was stolen with Noodles inside early Friday morning at around 4:40 a.m.
Hannon shared he was packing his car for a weekend getaway. He started the car to get the air conditioner going and then packed Noodles, an 8-year-old black terrier mix. Hannon says the car was parked a mere 15 feet from the front door of his apartment in South Austin. He went inside to retrieve Noodles' bed. When he returned to his car, Hannon says he saw two people jumping into his car and taking off with it and Noodles.
The perpetrators arrived via two Bird scooters, Hannon says. A friend of his, Marco Garcia, told Fox 7 that they've called Bird to get the riders' information, to no avail, likely due to privacy laws. Garcia says it might take law enforcement to ultimately retrieve the information from the scooter company.
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The Austin Police Department's Auto Theft Unit is now on the case, but so far the car and Noodles remain missing.
"Yeah, it's been pretty panic-inducing. I just have a lot of empathy for Noodles. He is pretty attached to me, and he likes a handful of people. He's not a mean dog, but he's shy and keeps to himself, and he just really loves being around me. So not being around is probably freaking him out a little bit," Hannon told Fox 7.
In the hours since the car and dog went missing, Hannon's harrowing story went viral.
"I'm scared," Hannon told Fox 7. He is an over-thinker of a dog and just seems to have like human eyes if anyone's ever met Noodles. It looks like he's thinking all the time and I just can't imagine what he is going through right now."
Fortunately, Noodles is chipped. If he ends up in a shelter, Hannon will be notified. For now, Hannon hopes the car thieves at least return his beloved dog.
"Feel free to have the car," he said. "I would like to have my dog back."