Devastating update for lost dog in SE

Searching Lost Portland May 13, 2026
Hi friends. I’m sorry if this is long, but I felt I needed to update after my posts yesterday. I want to first thank everyone for sharing and supporting my posts last night regarding our family dog, Zuggs, who we thought had run away under the care of a trusted family friend. This person had house/pet sat for my moms several times previously without incident. But in a very devastating and sick twist of events, I must announce that our sweet girl Zuggs was found deceased in the house along with another one of the family dogs, Angel. They were discovered by my 14 yr old sister, who had just gotten dropped back off to the home as we were expected to be flying back in later that night after our 10 day work trip. We have dropped them both off to OSU for necropsy testing today, but we feel things are very much looking like our sweet family pets were not given water and possibly not food. I think they dehydrated to death. But that will be confirmed in the coming week or so. I have filed a police report, and will be holding off on name and shaming the sitter or getting super detailed until we have the results confirmed and they can officially put out a warrant for her arrest. Once due processes are taken care of, trust I will be sharing more as I could never live with myself if this person were to be able to go on and hurt more innocent lives. If anyone has lawyer recommendations for those who may have dealt with animal neglect/rights cases, please let me know. Please be careful who you leave your fur babies with. Be that annoying owner constantly checking in. Be overbearing and ask for pictures and FaceTimes. Ask if they have food and water. We never could have imagined anything like this would happen and we are truly so devastated for the loss of our babies. The circumstances

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