A Bronx resident is desperately searching for his four beloved bulldogs after his trusted dog walker failed to return the pooches over the weekend.
Eusebio Baez, 35, was on his way home from a vacation in Vermont on Sunday when he received a phone call from his longtime dog walker, who said his dogs, Churro, Mocha, Rosie, and Banksy, were nowhere to be found.
“I was just like this has to be a joke … this is not possible,” Baez told The Post of the moment he was told his three French bulldogs and English bulldog were missing.
When he arrived home, the dog walker was outside his apartment, insisting the dogs had disappeared and offering to help find the four missing pooches — but Baez wasn’t buying the gesture.
Baez said doorbell camera footage showed the walker left his apartment near Post Road and Fieldston Terrace with the four dogs just before 5 p.m. on Saturday, but no footage captured their return.
He maintained that the dog walker would have been the only person to have they keys to his apartment, which he moved into only three weeks ago.
After Baez reported the incident to the police, cops interrogated the dog walker, who reportedly said he suffered from seizures that possibly altered his recollection, the heartbroken dog owner claimed.
Baez has since been frantically putting up flyers with images of Churro, Mocha, Rosie, and Banksy — two tan-haired French bulldogs, a black brindle French bulldog, and a white-haired English bulldog with brown spots.
“It doesn’t feel right being home without my dogs, so all I’ve been doing is being outside. I printed out about 400 posters. I’ve been like outside putting them everywhere, going to every pet store, every vet,” Baez said.
Baez felt frustrated that the police could not arrest the dog walker, despite evidence that he had never returned the beloved pups.
“He got interrogated by the police. There was evidence that he never returned my dogs. I don’t understand how is that a discussion?” Baez said.
“Someone, obviously, who you trust, had access to your dogs and never returned them.”
Police confirmed the four dogs — valued at $32,500 — were taken without permission by an unknown authority or person between Friday and Saturday, and that no arrests have been made.
An NYPD spokesperson told The Post that they couldn’t comment further on the interrogation and are hoping to continue gathering more information on what occurred.
“People make mistakes, you know, and as long as I get my dogs back, that’s all I care about,” Baez maintained.
“These are dogs that mean the world to me. My life, my schedule, my work revolves around me taking care of them,” he said. “I just want my dogs back at the end of the day.”
