The surveillance video showed a FedEx driver snatching up the first dog, Sheila, and putting her in his truck. As the driver went to grab the second dog, Bruno, Sheila escaped from the truck, but the driver caught her again and eventually left with both dogs. "Once we seen them on the video we were like, I can't believe it," Erica Correa said. "We are supposed to trust these people to deliver packages and they are stealing our dogs."
The story had a happy ending for the Correas after a stranger found the dogs together on a neighborhood street about 30 miles from the family’s home. The stranger, who was not identified, took the dogs to a veterinary clinic where someone recognized the dogs from a local newscast. “They were in great condition,” said Dr. John Gregory of Kirkwood Veterinary Hospital. “They look happy, healthy, very playful.”
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The dogs were reunited with the Correa family, including 5-year-old daughter, Savannah, on Thursday night. It is not clear if the dogs were let go by the driver or if they escaped. In a statement FedEx says it is “taking this incident very seriously and continues to work closely with authorities investigating this matter. Pending the completion of this investigation, the driver will not be providing service on behalf of FedEx ground.”
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I'm not condoning what the driver did, but the puppies shouldn't be running loose like that in a street.
Either the driver dumped them or they escaped; they were in the owner's backyard originally. Not like they had a choice.
Fed Ex has outsourced to independent contractors for almost all deliveries to save on labor overhead. So, Fed Ex is still responsible, but a solo operator driving a leased truck probably did the deed. They're not the FedEx of the 1980s anymore.
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