Tatty the pug, known as Sacramento’s ‘Mayor of Midtown,’ feared stolen. Here’s the reward

Darrell Smith
·2 min read

Tatty is gone, missing since he was stolen Friday from his spot in front of Scout Living on 18th Street between Capital Avenue and L Street in Sacramento’s midtown.

The pug’s people are sick about it.

Erin Boyle and Stefan Bloom, owners of Scout Living, are offering a $5,000 reward for his safe return. No questions. Anyone with information can call 415-503-8741.

“We’ve posted a thousand flyers. We’re assuming that someone who took our dog did it for the money? Well, we have it — $5,000,” Stefan Bloom said Saturday. “We just want our dog back.”

A poster signals the alert to find the missing Tatty, a fixture in midtown Sacramento.
A poster signals the alert to find the missing Tatty, a fixture in midtown Sacramento.

Boyle and husband Bloom call Tatty, their 12-year-old fawn pug, “The Mayor of Midtown;” and many others do, too. His dais, the vintage velvet chaise outside Scout; or, when among the people, on the sidewalk outside the family business at 1215 18th St.

“He’s been there since the store opened. He was there when we opened it nearly 12 years ago,” Bloom said.

It’s where Tatty was 3 p.m. Friday, Bloom said, when Boyle and one of the store’s employees were outside refurbishing a piece of furniture. After a short while, Boyle hadn’t heard from Tatty. When she went out front to check on her pup, he was nowhere to be found.

Bloom and Boyle were frantic, but for a few minutes, the couple had hope. Tatty is microchipped and his harness carries an AirTag, Bloom said.

“We couldn’t find him, we couldn’t find him,” Bloom said, but Tatty’s tag pinged the couple’s phones showing he was nearby on 18th between J and K. Hope of finding Tatty was quickly dashed.

“His AirTag was in the middle of the street,” Bloom said. “That’s all we know.”

The couple have put up posters and passed out photos. They have enlisted friends and fellow dog lovers and filed a police report. They have reached out to local news outlets and sounded the alarm on social media.

“Most people have been great. There’s a ton of stuff on social media. So many people have helped out,” Bloom said. “It’s bad. We’re pretty shook up. It’s pretty scary. It’s just the worst. We’re just trying to do what we can to get him home.”