I'm a dog lover, but these recent French Bulldog grabs remind me of the Ransom of Red Chief

French Bulldog snatched at gunpoint

Grab one of my kids, yeah, I’ll pay you a couple of bucks to cover their taxi-ride home. My lab, name your price. A friggin’ French bulldog? — I’ll tell you my price to take it back.

(Edit: I’ve got to remember to check my links — I wondered why the comments seemed off-point, until I looked. Understand, please, that the linking process in Squarespace is tortuous, requiring up to 7 steps; miss just one of them and the whole damn thing goes down )