Crime & Safety
Foster Dog Stolen While On Walk On North Shore: 'She Had A Really Hard Life'
Ellis-Esty owns a dog walking company and was walking several other dogs with Maisie when it happened at about 10:40 on Wednesday morning.
June 11, 2026
It's every dog owner's nightmare. In a wooded area just off Route 1 in Saugus, Massachusetts, a man grabbed Sophie Ellis-Esty's two-year-old French bulldog mix foster dog named Maisie and ran.
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"I didn't know what was happening at first," Ellis-Esty said. "I thought he was like picking her up just to say hi and then he started running away and then it was terrifying because I was realizing that he was trying to steal my dog and I was going as fast as I could."
Ellis-Esty owns a dog walking company and was walking several other dogs with Maisie when it happened at about 10:40 on Wednesday morning. Now, she is spreading the word, anything to bring her foster dog back home.
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Maisie, a French bulldog mix, was stolen while on a walk in Saugus, Massachusetts/CBS Boston
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