BELLEVUE, Wash. — Police are searching for two mini donkeys, now missing, after they were stolen from their barn in Bellevue Sunday afternoon.
“So much disbelief, like I couldn’t really process… I still haven’t processed… like who does that?” asked Allison Smith, the donkeys’ owner.
She says she was away skiing when she got a call from the property owner.
“She heard my horse screaming and running and kicking and I said ‘No, I’m not there, I’m at the mountain’ and I said ‘Can you please go check and make sure my horse trailer is still there’ – and she came up and saw that it was gone,” said Smith.
Someone took the donkeys out of their unlocked paddock and loaded them onto her trailer, which was also stolen.
Bellevue Police released a street surveillance video of the suspect vehicle, a dark truck towing a white trailer, which was seen shortly after the theft was reported.
“Just bring them home – I’ll buy you a donkey. Get your own (expletive) donkey. I mean, these are mine,” said Smith.
Smith says even her horse “Ozzy” is distressed having formed a strong bond with “Juan” and “Julio” who were adopted and helped the horse recover from an injury.
“Honestly, this is probably the most stressful part is making sure he’s ok.”
Smith believes, whoever is responsible, it’s not someone she knows, personally.
And she has no idea why they would do such a thing.
“The person who did this does not want to encounter me, because I have so much rage for anyone, any type of person that could do this,” said Smith.