A North Hollywood woman is celebrating after being reunited with her beloved French Bulldog, missing for some two years before being located by Good Samaritans nearly 100 miles from home.
Yasmine Haezart said it had been exactly 791 days since she’d last seen Havoc, her French Bulldog who slipped through an opening on the cul-de-sac where she lives and was then picked up and stolen by a passing driver.
“The last two years of my life have been stolen from me, just like my dog was,” Haezart explained to KTLA’s Rache Menitoff.
In the two years that Havoc was missing, there was little the North Hollywood resident didn’t do in an effort to find her pet. She hired cadaver dogs to track his scent. She put up flyers and harnessed the power of social media.
Haezart admits that Havoc’s disappearance severely disrupted her life. A teacher, she quit her job for six months to try and locate her missing dog, posting daily to Instagram and Facebook pages.
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A North Hollywood woman was reunited with her French Bulldog got out and then got stolen 2 years after his disappearance. (XOYASMINEHELENA) -
A North Hollywood woman was reunited with her French Bulldog got out and then got stolen 2 years after his disappearance. (XOYASMINEHELENA) -
A North Hollywood woman was reunited with her French Bulldog got out and then got stolen 2 years after his disappearance. (XOYASMINEHELENA) -
A North Hollywood woman was reunited with her French Bulldog got out and then got stolen 2 years after his disappearance. (XOYASMINEHELENA) -
A North Hollywood woman was reunited with her French Bulldog got out and then got stolen 2 years after his disappearance. (XOYASMINEHELENA)
“There’s nothing you can suggest that I didn’t,” she said. “The main that I did was I made a lot of posts that went viral on social media, and I created Havoc’s army of people who would look for him constantly.”
In fact, Haezaert’s dedication to keeping Havoc’s story alive is how she was ultimately reunited with the beloved Frenchie. When Havoc, who had been taken to Apple Valley in San Bernardino County, escaped his captors, Good Samaritans determined to find the dog’s rightful owner, posted his photo online and took him to the Apple Valley Animal Shelter.
“The next morning, they called me from Apple Valley and had me read out loud the microchip number and they said, ‘It’s Havoc. We have Havoc,’” Haezart said. “I never stopped looking. I never stopped keeping his name alive and reminding people that he’s still out there and still missing.”
Because French Bulldogs are such a desirable breed, officials at SPCALA says microchipping is the number one recommendation for protection in case a pet gets loose or stolen.
“The next thing to do is make sure you’re spaying or neutering them,” SPCALA VP Miriam Davenport told KTLA. “If you have an unspayed or un-neutered French Bulldog and someone picked them up, they might try to breed them and, certainly, you wouldn’t want that for your own pets.”
As for Haezart and Havoc, she said her “good boy” is coming home to a few new family members, two other Frenchies in need that she rescued while searching for him.
In the end, she credits the people, near and far, who paid attention to her story and stuck by her side while she searched for Havoc.
“It’s truly just a testament to the power of community and the power of good people,” Haezart said. “They’re out there. They still exist and they brought Havoc home.”
In the two years that Haezart was searching for Havoc, she helped reunite five other French Bulldogs who had gone missing or were stolen with their owners.
