The people who live across the street from my mother in law had their little dog (a Yorkie) stolen from their front yard recently. We live in the same development.
The dog is only out when the man and his elderly father are out in the yard. The older man sits outside quite a bit in the driveway and the dog sits beside him otherwise stays in the front yard with them when they’re out there.
Thing is this happened a few years ago to these people and my mother in law saw them take the dog. She yelled at them that the dog lived there.
I know sociopaths live among us. Pretty brazen bastids stealing a dog from someone’s yard. Feel terrible for them and for the little dog. She would always bark and give us hell when we pulled into my mother in laws driveway. Very nice people. Sucks.