Two French bulldogs who were missing for a month were reunited with their owner Sunday after receiving an anonymous call, the Manhattan Beach man said Sunday.
The dogs' owner, Matt Girardi, said he received an anonymous call Sunday at 5 a.m. The mysterious caller told Girardi that his beloved missing pooches were at a fire station in Hawthorne.
The pair of French bulldogs — a brother and sister — went missing on April 13 around 8 a.m. from his Manhattan Beach yard near 35th Street and Laurel Avenue. After plastering the neighborhood with missing posters, Girardi spoke with witnesses and obtained security video that proved his purebred pups were stolen.
He filed a report with the Manhattan Beach Police Department, but detectives had no luck tracking down the dognapper.
After receiving the strange call on Sunday, Girardi called the fire station and was told that his dogs Pablo and Sophie were dropped off overnight.
He picked up the two pups from a nearby animal shelter Sunday afternoon and the three spent the Mother's Day holiday relaxing together as a family.
Girardi said that once the dogs arrived home they received a hot bath and "they've been asleep ever since."
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Anyone with information about the theft is asked to call the Manhattan Beach police at 310-802-5140.
