‘Shattered’: Railroaded by dog walker, NYC man pleads for help finding his bulldogs

A Bronx man says he left his four beloved French bulldogs with a dog walker he has known and trusted for years when he went to Vermont last weekend. He came home “to my life being shattered.”

Eusebio Baez says he got a call on Sunday from the dog walker. The walker reported that the dogs were no longer in the individual’s apartment and, pressed further, said that they were dropped off the prior afternoon, according to Baez’s recounting of the call.

Baez says he drove straight home to Riverdale and saw that the dogs’ leashes and harnesses were not inside his apartment. He called the police to file a report. Baez says he looked at Ring camera video with investigators that he says shows the dog walker in his hallway with the dogs on Saturday.

Baez says he never returned with the animals. The frustrated man says surveillance video shows the dog walker near the Van Cortlandt Park 1 train station on Saturday evening. He didn’t have the dogs with him.

And the story keeps changing. Baez showed News 4 alleged texts between him and the dog walker, where the latter mentions he might have had a seizure, and that he’s looking for the dogs.

The NYPD says the dog walker told police he didn’t remember if he returned the dogs to the apartment. The next steps in the investigation weren’t immediately clear.

“Things are not adding up, and my dogs are still missing at the end of the day,” Baez says.

He has posted flyers all over his neighborhood as he searches for the dogs, but believes they were sold.

Between those, checking with vets and shelters, and the power of social media, Baez has hope he’ll get them back.

“Just give ’em back,” Baez said. “I won’t ask any questions. If you paid for them, I’ll give you the money back, you know. I just want my dogs back.”