12/29/06:  Help find stolen Pekinese from Massachusetts

A wheelchair-bound Hub grandma whose beloved pet pooch was stolen as she shopped for Christmas supper issued a heartsick plea to the dognapper yesterday:

“Bring my baby home!”

Billie Tyler, 58, discovered her 6-year-old Pekingese pup missing from outside the Shaw’s market on Huntington Avenue on Saturday evening, and has been bereft and bedridden since the cruel abduction.

“Please, please bring my baby home, I miss him so much,” Tyler implored the thief during an interview with the Herald. “He’s my best friend. He’s my only friend. I live alone so it’s just him and me.”

Tyler said she tied up 6-year-old Chin Chin at his usual place in the Shaw’s vestibule on Huntington “for 10 minutes” while she bought three items for Christmas dinner. When she came out, he was gone.

“I’ve always gone to Shaw’s with him three or four times a week,” she said. “I never thought anything like this would happen.”

According to a Boston police incident report, Chin Chin, who is light gray and valued at $1,000, was wearing a royal blue nylon collar with a black leash and was stolen between 7:30 and 8:00 p.m.

Tyler, a retired New England Telephone operator, said she received Chin Chin as a gift from her 8-year-old granddaughter six years ago, and she is afraid the dog is terrified to be without her.

“I think he would be a little bit traumatized now because it’s been five days,” she said. “He’s never really been away from me.”

Tyler said she is not much better off. Since losing Chin Chin, she has barely been able to leave her bed.

To find Chin Chin, Shaw’s and Boston police are reviewing Shaw’s surveillance tapes, BPD and Shaw’s spokespersons said.

Tyler’s son offered to buy her a new dog, but she refused. “It’s going to take me a while,” she said. “Another dog wouldn’t be the same right now.”

Source:

The Boston Herald