{"id":49695,"date":"2025-12-02T04:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/49695\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T04:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:37:07","slug":"philadelphia-family-pleads-for-dog-to-be-returned-after-it-was-stolen-from-strawberry-mansion-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/49695\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia family pleads for dog to be returned after it was stolen from Strawberry Mansion home"},"content":{"rendered":"

A family is pleading for the safe return of their beloved Yorkshire Terrier after it was taken early Saturday morning outside their home in Philadelphia’s Strawberry Mansion neighborhood. The 3-year-old dog has a special meaning following the tragic loss of their mother.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lakeshia Lockhart says her 14-year-old niece stepped outside their Strawberry Mansion home along the 3200 block of West Norris Street to walk their black Yorkie when a man with a large dog suddenly approached.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lockhart said their Yorkie wasn’t on a leash when her niece ran inside to get her help, leaving the dog, who was gone by the time they both made their way back out front.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“She got frightened and ran to come get me,” Lockhart said. “But by the time I came back out, it was already too late. He was already gone down the street.”<\/p>\n

Lockhart said she believes the dog was stolen, something that’s especially difficult for this family.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lakeshia Lockhart is the sister of Ashley Lockhart, the 32-year-old mother of six who was murdered<\/a> in 2022 by her boyfriend and the father of her six young daughters. The dog was given to the girls following their mother’s death for emotional support.<\/p>\n

“It’s their family. It’s their brother, their support system,” Lakeisha Lockhart said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to police, the man who took the dog was in his 40s, with black hair tied in a ponytail, wearing a green jacket and brown boots. For Lakeshia Lockhart, she’s just asking whoever did this to return the dog and do the right thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Stuff happens,” she said. “Situations happen. I understand. But can you just bring the dog back? It means so much to them if they can have them back during the holiday.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family is pleading for the safe return of their beloved Yorkshire Terrier after it was taken early…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2800,69,71,70,6705],"class_list":["post-49695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-pets","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-strawberry-mansion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}