LOS ANGELES — For days, Rachel Avery could barely eat or sleep, staying by the door each night in case someone returned her French bulldog, recently snatched from her porch in West Hollywood.
Then, on Friday, she got a call: Law enforcement told her they had the number of a man suspected of taking the brown dog named Jag.
Avery, 44, contacted the man — who confirmed he had the young dog — and arranged to meet him that night in Philadelphia, where he lives.