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Halton Regional Police are on the lookout for a dognapper who stole a Burlington teen’s poodle and drove away.

The incident happened around 7 p.m. Monday when a 14-year-old girl was walking her 3-4-year-old Shih Tzu, Jackson, through an Esso parking lot at 14 Plains Road East in Burlington.

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Police say that’s when a man approached from behind and asked if he could pet the dog, promising he would not hurt him.

The girl kept walking, but the man began petting the dog without permission. He proceeded to release the dog from its leash, police said, and told her he would be taking the dog because “this is my dog — I lost him three years ago.”

The man picked up Jackson, carried him to a silver car and drove away, heading west onto Plains Road East before going north onto Waterdown Road.

He is described as white, 40-50 years old, 5-foot-3 to 5-foot-8, pudgy and scruffy with a shaved head. He was wearing black shorts, blue sweater, dark socks and dark footwear.