SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - A South Florida woman is searching for answers after, she said, bird bandits broke into her home and took off with her precious pets.
According to Southwest Miami-Dade resident Isabelle Tanner and her friend, their two cockatoos flew the coop on Wednesday between 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., but they had some help. “The back door is locked. [The thieves] got in, they came in through here and grabbed both cages,” said Tanner. “The video shows … a rental van, and they put them in there and took off.”
Surveillance video captures the van speeding away from Tanner’s home in the area of Southwest 78th Street and 84th Avenue. “A lot of people don’t understand what it is to have a bird,” said Tanner. “They were part of our family, you know?”
Tanner said, whoever took the Umbrella and Goffin’s cockatoos was only interested in the animals. She said the perpetrators came straight for her pets and didn’t take anything else.
Tanner is only interested in her feathered family members coming home. “If anybody really has anything or knows anything, we would be really, really grateful,” she said.
Tanner is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to her birds’ safe return.
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