Meet Jon “incident” Marcus a.k.a John Herscher. He stole someone’s one-year-old beagle-terrier puppy to sell on Craigslist for $125 in gas money to get out of Nashville. I’d say this was a joke, but further inquiry has led to photos of Jon with the dog in question.
This is Jon with “Sadie.” We don’t know if that’s her real name or not. Probably not.
Can we harness the power of the internet to find this dog’s real owners and get her safely home? It is assumed that “Sadie” was stolen in or around Winchester Tennessee, so the greater Nashville and Chattanooga areas are likely candidates.
Any further leads can be sent to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department. Attention: Corporal Stines. Their Crime Stoppers number is 931-962-INFO (4636). Corporal Stines can be reached via e-mail: stines@fcsheriff.org.
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Jon posted the following on his facebook profile “opulence”:
Jon ‘incident’ Marcus: stuck in tenneessee anyone willing to wire me money let me know or wanting to buy a dog I stole for gas money le me know!!
FB_Friend: You’re kidding about the dog, right?
Jon ‘incident’ Marcus: No I stole a puppy and put it on cragislist to sell I need gas money to get home me and my friend meg are trapped here
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Its the one called cute 1 yearold jack russel beagle mix needs a home
Here’s the Cragslist ad:
Cute 1 year old Russle Terrier – Beagle Mix Needs home (Winchester)
Date: 2010-03-14, 9:31PM CDT
Reply to: JonsanityMarcus@yahoo.com
A cute, loving 1 year old Beagle – Russle Terrier mix in need of a home for the price of $125. She’s friendly, doesn’t bite and utterly loves children. However, we can’t keep her any longer and she deserves a nice home. She’s an overall bundle of love and fun and will keep you busy for hours! She has all her shots and if you get her, she’ll come with a bag of dog food and dog toys. If you want her, I’m located in Winchester and you can contact me at 216-287-2999 or at JonsanityMarcus@yahoo.com
PostingID: 1644428975
If this wasn’t disturbing enough already, just read the list of causes that Jon is a fan of on Facebook:
I Hate When That Sad Abused Pet Commercial Comes On!
I immediatly look in my rearview mirror when i pass a cop
Bad Decisions = Great Stories
Old enough to know its a bad idea, young enough not to care
I Hate “Low Fuel”
Having Inappropriate Conversations in Public
faceboook creepin….we all do it
Kisse’s and Cuddles in bed
Trying to figure out if it’s a cop car
Watching people’s lives fall apart via status updates and news feeds.
Kitsap Humane Society
Here’s what we know about Jon “incident” Marcus:
* Jon Marcus a.k.a Jon Herscher
* Former student at Solon High School and Mayfield High School class of 2008.
* Southside, PA
* Student at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh
* Currently in Winchester, TN
* 216-287-2999
* JonsanityMarcus@yahoo.com / badmanners@aim.com
Please help find this stolen dog’s real owners so that she can find her way safely home.
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The best part about having a dog at stud is ample access to puppies with none of the hard work of being a breeder: no baths, no mopping, no puppy pads, no shots. Weekly visits ensure an ample allotment of puppy breath, paws as big as your pinky nail, eyes that just might stay blue, and the cutest things you’ve ever seen poop. I swear they look like little cannon balls, or those ACME bombs with the big fuses when they poop, so cute.
The chocolate female demanded the most screen time yesterday, so here’s a longer clip of her refining her acting chops.
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Although you can’t tell from the above video, she’s actually quite the femme fatale. She’s a bit shy at first, and by shy I mean that she’ll run up to within 6 inches of you, tail wagging and wriggling like a fish on a line and then stop as if there’s an invisible barrier preventing her from going any farther. Then a few minutes later she’ll be sleeping in your lap. After lulling you into a false sense of complacency, she’ll nuzzle her way up your neck until she can suckle your year. Then, when she has you right where she wants you, it’s CHOMP!
I nearly died a few weeks back when she did this to my father. He was cooing about all the attention he was getting and then out of the blue he was screaming “Get her off of me!” A 300 pound man felled by a puppy that’d barely register on the scale at the supermarket. Just hilarious. Now that she’s tasted human blood, we’re pretty sure she’s going to be a man-eating beast. You can see just how much she respects her mother:
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This next one is Zappa, and I’m predicting right now that this dog is going to be famous. Since daddy is a cover model for the biggest name in dog publishing and mommy is a spokes-model for the biggest name in dog toys, it’s in his blood. He’s also one of four puppies from this litter who are going to live with professional dog trainers, so we’ve got nurture covered as well. This dog oozes charisma and the camera just loves him. He already has the “pose and move” down pat.
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This one is the chocolate boy, who is devastatingly handsome just like his father. Whereas the lilac female looks just like her mother, this one looks the most like Mercury. He’s also going to be famous as his new home is with a trainer out in Utah who is planning on using him as her demonstration partner.
The chocolate boy also carries the trademark naughty spot on his nose, passed down from Mercury, from Celeste, from Cowboy. Quite dashing, no?
A mere 8 weeks after being forced out of the warm embrace of their mother’s womb, the sons and daughters of the Mighty Mercury and Magnanimous Mara stand but a few days away from the great puppy diaspora whence they shall be tossed to the four winds to seek their fortunes.
But first, as a final test of their bravery, skill, and cunning, they must survive a descent down the Chasm of Doom!
Encouraged by the guiding example of their mother, the puppies eagerly approach the precipice, but are stayed by the magnitude of the mighty abysm before them.
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Not satisfied to come in third behind his brother and sister and eager to prove his worth, the Lilac Sable Cryptic Merle TriColor Male makes his way down into the depths of Judgment, one harrowing crag at a time.
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Famished and parched after his journey to the depths, our hero demands sustenance, but is denied satisfaction by Mother Milk Bar. She is unimpressed with his achievement and most surely favors his brother who made the descent first.
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Enraged, the intrepid puppy vents his frustration on his brother with a near flawless execution of the Reverse Half-Gainer Body Slam and Roll maneuver. Vanquishing his brother, he finally achieves his place at the top of the puppy pile.
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Having subjugated his brother, our hero demands his reward.
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What color is Mara? Having had the pleasure of studding out both Mercury and Dublin to Mara, the 8 resulting puppies have created more questions than have been answered.
Mara’s breeder concluded that she was a Cryptic Merle Lilac Tricolor. This is a fair assessment given that she had one chocolate-ish spot, but was otherwise much lighter, much like two of the puppies in her current litter. I suspect that you can also add Sable. Here are some early photos of Mara which show how her coat has progressed from blonde to lilac at birth, 2 weeks and 6 weeks old:
That 6 weeks photo is pretty standard for Lilac, and you’ll notice that Mara’s nose is not black, not chocolate, but a purple color. I believe this suggests that the Chocolate to Lilac dilution gene is present.
Also notice how Mara’s tri brown markings are blended on her face instead of solid with more clear borders. This effect appears in both her father and her father’s mother, and I believe this suggests that her tri markings are actually Sable.
Mara’s sire is “Chip” and her dam is “Flynn.” Flynn is a smooth coat chocolate dog with white piebald markings on her back and ear. You’ll notice that the white completely obliterates both the chocolate and brown tri color around her mouth:
Given the extensive knock-0ut effect of Flynn’s white piebald markings, it’s hard to judge if her tri color brown has sable elements or not.
Mara’s sire, Chip, is a blue merle tricolor, although I contend that there’s evidence of sable blending in his cheeks and on his legs:
Chip’s sire appears to be an unremarkable black and white dog, but his mother, Roxie, has quite the palette of tan points, variegated red and chocolate and stray white spots. Although this picture isn’t the best, I think you can see the same blending in the tan markings in the cheeks:
Although I’m unsure if the cheek blending is a definitive indication of sable being present, Mara’s coat is very similar to the following unrelated dog that has been identified as a sable merle; if we replace the dominant Black with Brown and add the Dilution to Lilac, I’d say the patterning is strikingly similar:
The accompanying description of the coloring fits our situation well:
In some breeds, such as Shetland Sheepdogs and Rough Collies, a slightly different version of sable exists. This type consists of brownish hairs on the back and head (even though these dogs have black pigment), and is often called “shaded sable”. On this type of sable coat, merling can be quite visible (if there is a lot of dark brown shading) or very hard to see (if the shading is lighter and not so extensive). However, the merling is usually visible at birth, so breeders will generally know if their dogs are sable merles or just sables. A sable merle will have some faint, darker brown/tan patches on a lighter base, and the merling will usually be confined to the back and head. It is often most visible on the ears, where the fur is shorter.
As expected, Mara has the darkest hairs on her ears, head, and shoulder blades; the hairs along her trunk do show the sable effect with darker tips and lighter shafts, and her puppy photos show the darker brown/tan patches on a lighter base.
All in all, the original classification appears correct if we add in sable: Cryptic Sable Merle Lilac with tan points. Genetically this is Chocolate + Dilute + Sable + Merle.
