UPDATE***** Lady Gaga's Dogs Recovery

KingstonsMom · ‎03-09-2010

Lady Gaga's 2 French Bulldogs that were stolen this week were tied to a pole in an alley, miles from where they were dognapped, and the finder is in for a big reward ... TMZ has learned.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... they believe the woman who found the dogs is a Good Samaritan who happened upon the dogs and recognized them from all the media attention. We're told the woman saw the email address we posted from Gaga and said she found the dogs, and she was advised to take them to a nearby police station. The dogs are fine.

As we reported, police believe the woman has no involvement in the dognapping so she deposited the dogs at the PD and left.

As for the reward, sources directly connected to Gaga tell TMZ she will "gladly" pay the $500,000 reward to the finder and we're told tears of joy are still flowing in Rome.

As for the dognappers and, in particular, the person who shot her dog walker ... they are still at large, although we're told cops are combing the area for surveillance video.

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NickNack · ‎03-10-2010

That's interesting. I guess it's better that they were tied to a pole than left to run loose and get hit by a car. Thank goodness for all the publicity and the woman who knew who the dogs were.

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Pook · ‎03-20-2010

I would suspect that the person who kidnapped them did not know they were Lady Gaga's dogs and just left them so they wouldn't be found out since there was so much publicity.

ValuSkr · ‎03-15-2014

Oh my, that's a nice payday for her. (I wonder if rewards are taxable. ) They will probably do an investigation to be sure she isn't somehow connected to the dognappers.

Lali1 · ‎08-21-2014

@ValuSkr wrote:
Oh my, that's a nice payday for her. (I wonder if rewards are taxable. ) They will probably do an investigation to be sure she isn't somehow connected to the dognappers.

Not probably surely. Gaga said no questions that doesn't stop the police from asking questions and won't.

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

The article says she dropped off the dogs and left. Surely the police interrogated her and at least got her name and address.

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MrsSB · ‎07-18-2013

That Huge REWARD worked just as it was supposed to.

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occasionalrain · ‎03-10-2010

I don't believe the dog nippers knew the dogs belonged to L G.

They also mistakenly thought that the dog walker would just hand over the dogs when they threatened him with the gun and never intended to shoot him.

Most dog walkers would have but Ryan wasn't just a paid walker.

When they're caught, that they didn't harm the dogs will count in their favor. At least it would with me.

Pook · ‎03-20-2010

I do not think that woman was looking for a reward but the reward offer probably scared off the one that did the kidnapping because pictures were all over. Dognapping is often an overlooked crime by police departments so easy to get away with.

KingstonsMom · ‎03-09-2010

@occasionalrain wrote:
I don't believe the dog nippers knew the dogs belonged to L G.
They also mistakenly thought that the dog walker would just hand over the dogs when they threatened him with the gun and never intended to shoot him.
Most dog walkers would have but Ryan wasn't just a paid walker.

When they're caught, that they didn't harm the dogs will count in their favor. At least it would with me.

@occasionalrain

No way should that work in the dognapper's favor, IMO. They shot and could have killed another human being for the money that they may have gotten for the dogs..

Hang 'em high, regardless of how grateful that they they didn't harm the dogs.

There's no way they could have sold those dogs, way too high profile and pretty much anyone would've recognized them.

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