Smart Dog Alerts Pet Store Owners That He Has Been Taken by Strangers

The puppy somehow felt that this was his chance to seek help.

Animals have a special way of communicating, even if we humans can’t always understand their language.

This story is about a smart five-month-old Australian shepherd named Vango, who relied on his doggy instincts to rescue himself from dognappers.

The clever pup ended up in a store with the people who took him, and he cleverly signaled to the store owners that something was wrong.

Image source: Facebook/Josée Francoeur

The incident happened at an animal store in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.

Vango kept barking and trying to get the store owner’s attention.

Yves Jodoin, who works at the store and is a dog trainer at Au Royaume des Animaux, immediately sensed that something was wrong.

Knowing dogs and their behaviors, Yves recognized that Vango’s constant barking indicated he was feeling distressed.

Image source: Facebook/Josée Francoeur

At first, Yves thought Vango might be hungry and barking for a treat.

But even after giving Vango a cookie, the barking didn’t stop, and Yves started to wonder.

Yves shared with CBC Canada, “The dog was barking, the dog was poking and he really wanted my attention. I was giving the dog cookies, but the dog was still barking.”

Image source: Facebook/Josée Francoeur

Yves became even more suspicious when the couple who brought Vango into the store couldn’t answer simple questions about the dog.

They didn’t know his age, whether he had been spayed or neutered, his favorite food, or where he came from.

“They were evading the questions,” Yves recalled.

Image source: Facebook/Josée Francoeur

Another staff member, Lydia Blouin, also felt that something was not right.

She decided to look through local social media pages to see if there were any posts about lost pets.

It didn’t take them long to come across a picture of Vango, who had been reported as missing.

The dog had been seen at his home in Buckingham just a few hours before he appeared at the store.

All of a sudden, Yves recognized Vango – he had trained him when he was just a puppy!

“At that point I said, ‘Vango, come!’ And the dog was reacting, he was jumping,” Yves said. “All along he was barking and poking, trying to say, ‘Hello, I’m not the dog they say I am.’”

Image source: Facebook/Josée Francoeur

With this evidence before them, the couple admitted that Vango wasn’t their dog.

They explained that they had found him in the woods and wanted to keep him as a support animal because the woman couldn’t afford a dog and had health issues.

Yves convinced them to leave Vango at the store, and another employee contacted the real owner, Josée Francoeur.

They were the ones who reached out to the dog’s owner.

Image source: Facebook/Josée Francoeur

Josée was completely surprised by the news.

She was certain that Vango wouldn’t simply run away.

“Is it possible that someone took him? And I was thinking, ‘Who could do that? It’s impossible!” she said.

Receiving the call from Yves brought immense relief to Josée. “I can’t talk about it without crying,” she confessed.

“Imagine, If those people didn’t go to that pet store, I would have lost my dog forever.”

As soon as she heard the news, she quickly scheduled an appointment to have Vango microchipped, ensuring such incidents wouldn’t happen again in the future.

As for the people who took Vango, Josée reported the incident to the local police department by filing an official complaint.

“I don’t want to cause them problems. We don’t know why they did it. But at the same time, they took my baby,” she said.

“I want to discourage others from doing this.”

Thanks to Vango’s clever actions, he is now safely back with his loving owner.

What a smart and amazing dog!

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