Robbers beat California woman, steal her pregnant $7,000 French bulldog

<div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0YkxHU8LFLlr25cKxFKzx0JFmj04lEfJq7YIEe6A5UblYgWN8S8pguUvYq3tTkbuazFJloA3mgfFwUjmRlyhJGX7NJHUMWacHF_zrk-PysZa9WLhHNxeoc2M7IfxfK1hBIJ0VgzWCAM1L/s1600/california-hollister-daylight-dog-robbery-feat-image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" class=" " data-original-height="682" data-original-width="1024" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0YkxHU8LFLlr25cKxFKzx0JFmj04lEfJq7YIEe6A5UblYgWN8S8pguUvYq3tTkbuazFJloA3mgfFwUjmRlyhJGX7NJHUMWacHF_zrk-PysZa9WLhHNxeoc2M7IfxfK1hBIJ0VgzWCAM1L/s1600/california-hollister-daylight-dog-robbery-feat-image.jpg" title="" width="320"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dog owner Amanda Hightower was attacked moments after she left her home on Teresita Court in Hollister on Thursday morning.</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br></div><div><br></div>Chilling surveillance video captured the moment two armed men stole a 10-month-old French bulldog after injuring the pooch’s owner in California.<div><br></div><div>Dog owner Amanda Hightower was attacked moments after she left her home on Teresita Court in Hollister on Thursday morning and then returned for a forgotten item, <a href="https://www.ksbw.com/article/pregnant-french-bulldog-stolen-at-gunpoint-in-hollister/41269961#" target="_blank" style="font-size: 1.25em;">according to KSBW.</a></div><div><br></div><div>“I surprised them when I had come in the door, so they attacked me, and they kept telling me to stay on the ground, ‘Don’t move!,’ you know, cussing at me, and I was trying to fight back,” she told the news outlet.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvyfi97cBgRs8r2h3KSY2bl9DmU6Biwn54NkqRlPAkISenxzi4ebiNHPS3koMasRL_Zd7QXNn9awR2LmN7tXwooctDA9BdFx9c3jizcqrefx3TD-j5LzX0iuotFGf25EeJRsj08ciejnvo/s1600/california-hollister-daylight-dog-robbery-06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" class=" " data-original-height="1381" data-original-width="1500" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvyfi97cBgRs8r2h3KSY2bl9DmU6Biwn54NkqRlPAkISenxzi4ebiNHPS3koMasRL_Zd7QXNn9awR2LmN7tXwooctDA9BdFx9c3jizcqrefx3TD-j5LzX0iuotFGf25EeJRsj08ciejnvo/s1600/california-hollister-daylight-dog-robbery-06.jpg" title="" width="179"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amanda Hightower was beaten and held at gunpoint while robbers stole her pregnant French bulldog.</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br></div><div><br></div><div>“I was trying to grab [their] hoodies, and [one of them] got upset, so he hit me with the gun in the face,” Hightower recalled. “I said, ‘Please don’t take my dog, please don’t take my dog!’ ”</div><div><br></div><div>Her pregnant bulldog, Milani, has a rare merle coat and is reportedly worth about $7,000.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCI3ilV6O_2SstWCasfYO-FGRaOVr9wCCFEBtRHBFKMPN3shk-rUUaTS3h1I_542HwKNFxjmA_CE9MhrREctKo8XNJBmR_-79CfTykDIdIS1N49w72c9LXogMlt4iLB6VJrtzJwITzRi8H/s1600/california-hollister-daylight-dog-robbery-11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" class=" " data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1079" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCI3ilV6O_2SstWCasfYO-FGRaOVr9wCCFEBtRHBFKMPN3shk-rUUaTS3h1I_542HwKNFxjmA_CE9MhrREctKo8XNJBmR_-79CfTykDIdIS1N49w72c9LXogMlt4iLB6VJrtzJwITzRi8H/s1600/california-hollister-daylight-dog-robbery-11.jpg" title="" width="298"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The two suspects who made off with Milani were driving a silver Chevy Malibu with paper dealer plates from Gold Star Buick GMC in Salinas — but police said they could have been fakes or stolen.</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br></div><div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeIqS3T4v-gEBFOV3iroG5rSf7soTkpxdWw7OJFSW_vdFwYsAxEK6CN15oqKFPMXIXB4rACRqEfAbYekyvT-EfbNVPyMZmPJzuTAq4o8dH0m8-wICiF9pJCicTSZuO_9QFnl-Dg-CF8gdn/s1600/california-hollister-daylight-dog-robbery-12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" class=" " data-original-height="1101" data-original-width="1882" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeIqS3T4v-gEBFOV3iroG5rSf7soTkpxdWw7OJFSW_vdFwYsAxEK6CN15oqKFPMXIXB4rACRqEfAbYekyvT-EfbNVPyMZmPJzuTAq4o8dH0m8-wICiF9pJCicTSZuO_9QFnl-Dg-CF8gdn/s1600/california-hollister-daylight-dog-robbery-12.jpg" title="" width="255"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Her pregnant bulldog, Milani, has a rare merle coat and is reportedly worth about $7,000.</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br></div><div>Hightower believes the dognappers cased her home after finding out Milani is pregnant.</div><div><br></div><div>“It was posted on my Instagram breeding page, and it was a public page for people to see in case they were interested in any of the puppies, so anybody could have seen it,” she told KSBW of the posting.</div><div><br></div><div>Such bulldogs, which are worth between $1,500 and $5,000, have been a favorite target for thieves, most famously when Lady Gaga’s dog walker was shot and her two Frenchies stolen last year.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgntwasWcsju5UEU6vwsesjN9DuEQ7uB_oAHDUcuyNneVV46dpfK6ij4bpULmsfbm1AL99b5EJgTDRFdYc0kSCLL8P6PGC_xgGvwGPLrH_F7T2SZ_efPO49eKj4E47fdapIkOr0TfGrbJr8/s1600/california-hollister-daylight-dog-robbery-07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" class=" imageResizeTarget" data-original-height="1609" data-original-width="1287" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgntwasWcsju5UEU6vwsesjN9DuEQ7uB_oAHDUcuyNneVV46dpfK6ij4bpULmsfbm1AL99b5EJgTDRFdYc0kSCLL8P6PGC_xgGvwGPLrH_F7T2SZ_efPO49eKj4E47fdapIkOr0TfGrbJr8/s1600/california-hollister-daylight-dog-robbery-07.jpg" title="" width="255"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Her pregnant bulldog, Milani, has a rare merle coat and is reportedly worth about $7,000.</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The two suspects who made off with Milani were driving a silver Chevy Malibu with paper dealer plates from Gold Star Buick GMC in Salinas — but police said they could have been fakes or stolen.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>

Robbers beat California woman, steal her pregnant $7,000 French bulldog

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