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She didn't steal the Belgian Malinois in Escondido. She rescued It.
A STORY WITH A SAD ENDING FOR ALL THE CHARACTERS The dog owner loses his prized dog that he trained to be a champion. A woman is imprisoned for a selfless act to rescue what she believed an abused dog. A jury is forced to convict the woman for failing to contact animal protection authorities who could have determined whether abuse existed, rescued Elvis if necessary and any other abused dogs that may have been on site, and possibly put an end to further abuse by the dog trainer if so warranted. A dog trainer is victimized by a woman who couldn't handle rejection and victimized by public scrutiny of his business in the court and media. Elvis, the pedigreed Belgian Malinois from the Czech Republic, is nowhere to be found. Le Fin— October 28, 2011 9:15 p.m.
She didn't steal the Belgian Malinois in Escondido. She rescued It.
The plot thickens . . . Beautiful curvaceous blonde Russian woman, recently divorced and almost homeless, about to share a home with the French dog trainer she's fallen in love with only to be rejected by him in the most offensive manner. A man too cowardly to stand up for himself has his new girlfriend meet the tormented woman at the door to shoo her on her way. Hurt and rejected, fueled by rage, she kidnaps Elvis in revenge. And lands herself in jail. Who's the victim? The dog, the woman, the owner or the trainer? Is Elvis anywhere in the house?— October 28, 2011 3:21 p.m.
She didn't steal the Belgian Malinois in Escondido. She rescued It.
This is a sad story filled with enough drama for the makings of a TV movie. A man's dog, Elvis, is gone. A dog that he had gone to great lengths and expense to get. A dog that he searched for relentlessly by involving detectives, posing as a jewelry buyer and calling Vukov over 300 times, and driving day and night to find. Only to come so close to being reunited with Elvis and to find that he had been stolen again from Vukov's gated back yard by possibly another animal lover or the dog trainer. A compassionate woman who can't bear to leave behind the broken down dog pleading her to rescue him from the dirt hole that he has dug to find refuge from the hot Escondido sun where he licks the bloody wounds inflicted by the sadistic trainer's beatings to make him submissive. A woman, barely able to provide a home for herself and two teenage daughters, who chooses to add an extra burden to her life to kidnap and nurture a starved, feces ridden dog covered with flies and maggots from his hellhole. A court of law that must decide the reasonableness of a person in taking their custody an abused dog that belonged to someone else to protect it. A jury so taken by emotion they take a day to deliberate the issue. And last, the dog trainer who aggrandizes himself with elite professional credentials of European accomplishments that no one questions.... A trainer that parlays what would have been a simple $1,500.00 dog training job into an annual revenue of probably $40,000.00 or more by training three dogs (Elvis and the two he sold Afgani for $8,500.00) and upselling his training and coaching services that could take a couple of years and easily be $3,000.00 per month. The trainer's cost - a wire and hook to contain the dog, a girlfriend that feeds the dog one dish of dry food at night, and a little of his time to continue duping the dog owner that he'll win the title if he keeps buying more dogs and training. America, what a country.... Where's the animal rights people when a dog needs them?— October 28, 2011 2:19 p.m.