Pit bull puppies stolen from Cape Girardeau breeder

A dog breeder who lives in southwest Cape Girardeau reported the theft of two pit bull terriers valued at $1,500 each.

The dogs were in a pen in his yard Monday evening when he left to visit a friend, said Kendrick Morris. The four-month-old puppies, a male and a female, were with a littermate and their mother when they were last seen, he said.

When he returned the next morning about 10 a.m. to prepare for work, the puppies were gone, he said.

Cape Girardeau police took a report, but will likely need someone to realizes the dogs are stolen to come forward to find them. "I am a dog owner, and I'm for anything that will help get these dogs back," said Sgt. Rick Schmidt of the Cape Girardeau Police Department.

The dogs have what is known as a "blue body," a term for pit bulls and other dogs that means they have grey fur. The female has a white stomach and paws, with a thin white stripe from her forehead to her nose. The male has a white stomach, white around the neck and paws and a thick white stripe from the forehead down to the nose and around the muzzle, Schmidt said, quoting both descriptions from the incident report.

The officer who took the report got the descriptions of both dogs exactly correct, Morris said. A dog breeder for 11 years, he said it won't be hard for him to recognize the missing puppies. "It would be about as easy as it would be to identify my mother," he said. "They are very distinctive."

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