Radio and TV host Mo Twister's pet dog, Bamboo, has been found dead.
He shared the sad news himself in a lengthy social media post.
"Many of you knew Bamboo from Day 1. If you’d like, scroll thru my feed and the 10yrs of watching him grow and help raise our kids," he started.
According to him he always wanted an English Bulldog and when they brought Bamboo in New York the latter was an instant hit.
"Everyone in the neighborhood stopped to pet him, even the Hollywood celebs! We moved to Las Vegas and Bamboo saw us raise the kids and he became their protector - an incredible guard dog. As he aged and started to show diminished eyesight/hearing, he still had the alertness and desire to keep us safe," Mo Twister reiterated.
Meanwhile, he shared that last June 7, Bamboo was taken from their home.
"Three men who worked on construction next door from a company called Gonzalez Flooring here in Vegas tied a rope around his neck and led them into their truck in this summer heat," he said, adding that he has camera footage of the incident.
Then the following day, he confronted the men.
"It got tense and the police responded and because the law has to have certain elements to warrant a felony, we just didn’t have enough — even though they admitted to stealing Bamboo. They said they stole him but let him go down the street from our home because they panicked," he said.
On the morning of June 9, Bamboo's dead body was found in the area of "the person who stole him."
"Nowhere near my home, an impossible distance for an old and nearly blind Bulldog to reach," he related.
Mo Twister would like to believe that his furbaby put up a fight before he got "murdered."
"I’d like to believe in his last moments he remembered our days in Central Park, the day Amsterdam came home for the first time, the endless toys and treats, the sofa he slept on every afternoon in my radio studio while I did the morning show and GTWM," he said.
"Most of all, I’d like to believe he didn’t suffer. But I’d be wrong. He suffered. In this immense heat, stuck in a truck at 104 degrees outside. I know he ended his life like a person on fire."
Mo Twister shared a photo of Bamboo's body, after being "dumped from a truck in an open lot far away from home."
"I feel like I failed him and I’m in terrible pain thinking I did," he said.
"You all can remember his life. I’m going to remember how he was taken and I will have my day."
In another post, Mo Twister shared 8 News Now's report, where they featured Bamboo.
In the caption, he extended gratitude to the online community, pointing out they would have never recovered Bamboo if not for the social media followers who messaged them that their pet dog's body was found in Aliante, Las Vegas - "where the kidnapper resides."
"The owner of the company, Gonzalez Flooring, also owns the truck Bamboo was last seen in. He was the guy that said he let Bamboo go in the streets near our home after admitting to police he stole Bamboo," Mo Twister shared. "I’ve heard people have called the business looking for answers and they changed their number today. I wouldn’t be surprised if they change their company name in an attempt to continue business."
"The co-owner is a nurse at @thevalleyhealthsystem. A nurse who is supposed to take care of life yet she’s married to the suspect and she was the contact person for the flooring company," he added.