(Courtesy of Morgan Bogle)
Morgan Bogle left her dog in the care of a trusted dog-sitter while she flew to London on a business trip. The man reportedly flipped out and was observed by neighbors on Monday kicking down Bogle’s door.
Sugar was nowhere to be found and the temperature, expected to drop to seven degrees that night, made the Pitbull’s disappearance even more worrying. Bogle, who owns the vegan clothing company Freedom of Animals, flew home from London immediately. She told us that the dog-sitter was “found with PCP dust on him and in him and taken by the police to Bellevue Hospital psych ward where he’s being held incoherent and not allowed any visitors.”
The last time anyone saw Sugar was on Monday morning at 9 am. An hour before, the dog-sitter made phone calls to two of his friends in which he sounded completely coherent, Bogle said. By 11:30am, he was at Bogle’s apartment, “completely out of it,” kicking down the front door and saying, “I don’t have my keys. Where’s Sugar?”
Courtesy of Morgan Bogle
Bogle told the New York Post, which first reported the story, that a witness described the man hiding behind a trash can and “acting strange.” She suspects that he either lost Sugar after getting high or he left her at his drug dealer’s apartment. She says she has worked with him for three years and nothing like this has ever happened. Sugar had been at the sitter’s house for six days before she went missing.
The search for Sugar now has a Twitter page, a Facebook page, an Instagram, and her official hashtag is #findsugarNYC. You can email findsugarNYC@gmail.com with any information. Sugar was last seen on February 23 at 210 E 26th Street – hopefully in a navy sweater. Bogle is offering a $5,000 reward for her return.
