A US Airman is heartbroken after claiming a house sitter stole his beloved Husky named Maverick. Right now, Andrew Beckham is deployed overseas.
The man supposed to be watching his house stole his car and his dog as well, according to the Airman.
"I am looking for this person. He was housesitting for me while I am deployed with the Air Force," Andrew Beckham wrote in a Nest alert shared on Facebook on April 3. "He has stopped all contact and taken Maverick and my vehicle." While Beckham was overseas, Maverick was at home in Colorado. The US Airman selected a sitter to look after the dog and his house while he was gone.
However, the man, who was found on Trusted House Sitters, a company that connects owners with third party sitters, put the Husky into the airman's 2014 Subaru Forester and drove off. So far, the company hasn't been able to track down the sitter.
Airman Has Dog Stolen
"He has not been found, and he has my dog," Beckham wrote. "It was hard to see on my camera because he was taking Maverick out at night and then going in the car without telling me where he was going."
Apparently, the sitter called 911 an hour before and claimed someone was trying to break in.
"He seemed scared of something. I don't know what, but he seemed really scared," Beckham said. "I feel like I've lost a part of home. Like there's a hole in my chest where he should be. Maverick has been with me through deployments, through long days, through lonely nights. Losing him, it's just heartbreaking."
Since the incident, neighbors have begun searching for the Husky and the house sitter while the Airman is stuck overseas.
"I'm a dog person. My husband is Air Force. So those two items just told me I needed to do something," Beckham's neighbor Carla Wise told Fox Denver. "I drove to the airport, looked at two different, both the west and east parking garages, drove each one for about an hour this morning to see if I could help find the car... but the dog, that's the main thing. He's out there. We're going to get him. We're going to find him."
