Have You Seen Linus and Dexter? The Basset Hounds Went Missing in Greenwich

A Riverside family is seeking the community’s help in finding their beloved basset hounds Linus and Dexter.

The duo went on the lam sometime overnight Friday, according to their owner Kristin Taylor of Riverside. Taylor said her home in the Club Road/Riverside train station neighborhood has a doggie door and the scent-loving hounds apparently went outside during the night and escaped through a driveway gate that either was opened by someone or blown open by the wind.

“We’ve driven all over looking for them,” Taylor said. “”With bassets they probably just ran off following a scent.”

Taylor said she and her three sons adopted Linus in December after he was retired from being a show dog. The family hopes to have him home for his first birthday this week.

The family has owned Linus’s cousin, Dexter since he was 10 weeks old.

“Both have new collars on … but they don’t have their tags on the collars…they like to play and pull off one another’s collars,” Taylor said. She described the dogs as “incredibly friendly and as of n ow, they’ll probably be frightened.”

Taylor also believes there’s a possibility the dogs could be in the Cos Cob area as the Mianus River was frozen over and would allow the bassets easy passage across the waterway. Or, the dogs could have found their way into Stamford, Taylor said.

Taylor, who’s contacted both the Greenwich Animal Control and Stamford Animal Control, is offering a reward for information leading to the safe return of the dogs.

If you should see them, call Greenwich Animal Control at 203-622-8299 between 7:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. or Greenwich Police at 203-622-8006; email Taylor at kristinog@gmail.com or email Greenwich Patch at barbara.heins@patch.com.

Kristin Taylor contributed photo: Linus, left, with his cousin Dexter.

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