OTTAWA -- It was an owner not the dog who earned the name wiener this week in Gatineau, Que., -- and now both are off to the kennel.

For reasons which remain unclear, a thief left his dog behind at a crime scene recently.

It was Friday. March 13 -- the lone staffer at the Talbot denture clinic left for lunch just before 1 p.m. When he returned, Gatineau cops say he found holes in the wall leading to the clinic. Inside -- a Daschund, commonly referred to as a wiener dog.

The door hadn’t been forced, but later, witnesses told detectives they had heard barking coming from within the clinic.

It didn’t take investigators long to piece together what had happened -- a laptop was missing and so too was a $5 bill which had been left in a donation box on the counter.

The only one who knew anything was the pooch, who wasn’t talking.

But he did have ID -- around his collar.

Cops checked the dog tag and found it included a home address. Officers went to the place and found a 31-year-old Gatineau man in possession of both the missing laptop and a $5 bill.

Thursday he appeared in Gatineau court and was sentenced to six months in jail for breach of probation and break and enter, according to TVA news.

The dog, police say, was collected by animal control and taken to a shelter.

Investigators have not said why the dog was brought along for the crime or left behind.