It was supposed to be one of the happiest days of her life: Hollywood makeup artist Trendee King was buying her wedding dress with her mother and sister. 
 
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 This is how we Buffalo 🐶👱🏻‍♀️ #buffalo #gobills #billsmafia A post shared by Theo The Griff (@babybeard) on Dec 23, 2016 at 6:04pm PST 
 
 But hours later, the day turned to heartbreak as King’s fiancée called from their San Jose, Calif., home to say their cherished year-old dog Theo was missing. Now, two weeks later, the wedding has been postponed indefinitely and no cost spared as King and fiancée James Galley, an executive at a Silicon Valley media giant, search for the 12-pound Brussels Griffon. 
 
 The couple has offered a $3,500 reward, hired a pet detective, searched with a bloodhound, started a social media campaign and plastered thousands of flyers, laminated posters and tarps throughout the South San Francisco Bay area. 
 
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 “When you have a dog a little less than a year that you are falling madly in love with, and he is lost and you don't know where he is, your mind goes to a million scenarios,” said King, 34. “I have to take each day one day at a time, step by step. I wouldn’t have made it this far without my faith.” 
 
 King had spent years wishing for a Brussels Griffon after seeing the rare breed featured in the 1997 Jack Nicholson-Helen Hunt movie “As Good as it Gets.” So Galley, 37, gave Theo as a gift because King left her entire life behind to follow him to the San Francisco Bay area where he started a new job. They picked up Theo from a breeder on the way home from a Caribbean vacation last May, King said. 
 
 Papa wants to watch Football and I want to watch Love Actually! #staredown #iwon #hotellife #loveactually #keiraknightley #mybae A post shared by Theo The Griff (@babybeard) on Dec 26, 2016 at 9:26pm PST 
 
 King had a successful career with clients like Paula Abdul, David Beckham, Laurence Fishburne and many of TV’s biggest reality shows. 
 
 Theo became a beloved member of the household and soon had fans of his own with an Instagram page titled "babybeard." He was rarely separated from his loving family. 
 
 Then on the fateful day of Feb. 13, Theo had surgery to remove an abscess on his back. King was in Los Angeles buying her wedding dress, so Galley dropped Theo off at the home of a pet sitter who could care for the recovering dog while he was at work. 
 
 But Theo had other ideas, bolting from the woman’s home when she opened the front door for a delivery. The sitter couldn’t catch him as he ran away, Galley said. 
 
 King rushed home and soon the couple deployed a campaign to rival that of a missing person. 
 
 The first step was retaining private investigator Jamie Katz, who specializes in lost pets. Katz says she has located 218 animals and has a 68 percent success rate. 
 
 Katz diagramed a 10-mile radius where nearly 2,000 paper flyers and laminated posters were posted, extending an additional 30 miles to pet stores, Starbucks and veterinarian offices. A social media push aided by dog rescue groups and a Brussels Griffon network helped bring in a dozen tips a day. 
 
 One tipster reported seeing Theo in a Home Depot parking lot several miles from where he escaped. Katz arranged for a bloodhound to search the area. Despite five hours of effort, the bloodhound only hit on two areas: the parking lot and a homeless encampment under a freeway about half a mile away. None of the homeless recalled seeing Theo. 
 
 Another tip involved a dog that was hit by a car and buried by the roadside. The couple dug up the unrecognizable remains and took the animal to a veterinarian, who found no signs of Theo’s microchip. 
 
 Then two people called to report a dog resembling Theo at a department store in a shopping cart. Two others reported a possible sighting at a Taco Bell. Both locations were checked out and found to be false sightings. 
 
 Tips have dwindled, so Katz is expanding the placement of posters this week. She said constant dedication and hard work have helped her find animals even 100 days after they’ve gone missing. 
 
 “Theo will be found,” Katz said. 
 
 As for King, she says she is comforted by the numerous well-wishers on social media, including one woman who said her dog came home after a year. 
 
 “Theo is my best friend, we did everything together – grocery shopping, the dog park – we slept nose-to-nose,” King said. “There's something in me that knows he's alive and knows he's OK. All of this is happening for a reason.” 

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 Since their dog Theo went missing two weeks ago, Trendee King and James Galley have put everything on hold, including their upcoming wedding, in order to find him. 
 
 The South Bay couple had left the Brussels Griffon dog with a dog-sitter for the first time when he went missing on Feb. 13. "He was with a dog-sitter for the day because I was in L.A. looking for my wedding dress and my fiancé was going to be at work all day," King, a makeup artist, told SFGATE. 
 
 When her fiancé, director of business development at Netflix, called the dog-sitter, he found out that Theo had gone missing. 
 
 "I was buying my wedding dress with my mom and sister. It was a joyous time. I got that call from my fiancé that the dog was missing and I went straight home that night," King said. 
 
 They later found out that Theo had escaped out the front door of the dog-sitter's house, near Blossom Hill Rd. and Almaden Rd. in San Jose, making his way west on Blossom Hill. A Good Samaritan spotted Theo running down the street and followed him several blocks, until she lost sight of him near the Westfield Oakridge Mall. 
 
 That's where Theo was last seen. The couple has put up over 800 posters advertising a $3,500 reward, no questions asked, for the safe return of their pet. They've also passed out thousands of flyers and hired a pet detective to help guide their search. 
 
 Many people have called King with tips, sending her on a wild goose chase around the Bay Area, but so far they have all been false alarms. 
 
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 "I've been driving everywhere: Palo Alto, to Menlo Park to Santa Cruz." 
 
 The couple received a call Saturday night from someone who had hit a dog on the freeway and then buried it nearby. King and her fiancé went to investigate, digging up the remains of the dog and taking it to a veterinarian, who confirmed it was not Theo. 
 
 They also received a tip that Theo may have been spotted with a woman at a San Jose Target store. After reviewing security footage and having a private investigator run the woman's license plates, they found it was another false lead. 
 
 On top of spending thousands of dollars on the search effort, King and Gaffey have postponed their wedding until they have answers. 
 
 "There's no way I can plan a wedding right now. I have to find my dog," King said in an interview. "Part of my family is missing and there's no way I can plan a wedding right now." 
 
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 King remains optimistic that Theo will be found. She has been posting nonstop on her social media accounts, including Instagram where she has more than 27,000 followers. Her plea for help was also reposted by another animal Instagram page that has upwards of 6 million followers. 
 
 "We miss our dog. We miss our baby. He's our child. He's our family. We're not going to be able to ever stop until we find him." 
 
 King asks that anyone with information about Theo's whereabouts calls (310) 663-2652. The couple is offering a $3,500 reward, no questions asked. 

 SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — A San Jose couple is resorting to extreme measures to find their beloved dog that has been missing for almost a month. 
 
 The couple has hired a pet detective and even postponed their wedding for the search. 
 
 Dog owner Trendee King has a laser focus on just one thing: finding her lost four-legged friend Theo. 
 
 “It’s a loss and not knowing where your animal is, is…torture,” said King. 
 
 Theo is a black and tan, one-year-old Brussels Griffon. He is the pride and joy of King and her fiancee James Galley. 
 
 Theo got away from his sitter on Feburary 13 and was last seen near the intersection of Blossom Hill Road and Almaden near a Whole Foods Market. 
 
 King was in Los Angeles at the time. She says the joy of shopping for her wedding gown was shattered by the loss of Theo. 
 
 “And so two hours, I took the flight back to San Jose later that very evening to go and search for our dog,” said King. 
 
 The couple has spent hours printing and hanging hundreds of signs and posters and thousands of dollars on the search, including hiring a pet detective. 
 
 They even decided to postpone their wedding scheduled for this August. 
 
 “Planning a wedding takes so much of your time,” said King. “And honestly the only thing I can think about right now is finding Theo, so I couldn’t even imagine splitting the time with anything else.” 
 
 King has been criticized for that on the internet, but says for her it’s the right thing to do. 
 
 “It’s been 25 days but, to be honest, I still have so much faith and hope,” said King. “I just know that he’s out there.” 

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 A San Jose couple are searching “to the ends of the Earth” to find their dog Theo, who went missing in Almaden Valley several weeks ago. 
 
 The exhausting search so far has sent them plastering numerous posters, fliers and tarps at intersections and freeway ramps and on fences all over the Bay Area, offering thousands of dollars for Theo’s return, hiring a pet detective, running newspaper ads and even postponing their wedding in hopes of finding their beloved furry friend. 
 
 The ordeal began on Feb. 13 when Theo–a scruffy black and tan, 1-year-old Brussels griffon owned by Trendee King and her fiance, James Galley–darted out the front door of his dog-sitter’s home near Blossom Hill and Almaden roads toward the Westfield Oakridge Mall. 
 
 King was in Los Angeles celebrating over champagne toasts with friends and family after finally finding a wedding gown when her phone rang. It was Galley, who “sounded very panicked” as he broke the bad news. 
 
 “My heart sank and I was terrified,” King said. She wasted no time and booked the earliest flight back to San Jose, where she and Galley took to the streets, searching every nook and cranny where Theo was last seen. 
 
 “We searched from probably 8 p.m. to midnight, all the way down to the Oakridge Mall,” she said. “We were calling him, shaking treats, searching high and low, but no Theo anywhere.” 
 
 The couple went home with heavy hearts and resumed their search in the morning–and every day since. 
 
 “We’ve been to Milpitas, Palo Alto, Santa Cruz, Saratoga, Campbell,” King said. “We’ve been everywhere. We’ve been to every shelter, every vet, every Petsmart.” 
 
 Searching for Theo has become so intense that King and Galley have postponed their nuptials until he comes home. 
 
 “There’s just no way I’m going to plan a wedding right now,” King said. “It’s impossible, it’s a full-time job (searching for Theo). We go for 12 hours, 14 hours some days.” 
 
 So far King and Galley have posted about 800 laminated posters from San Jose to Santa Cruz with Theo’s picture and a reward offer of $3,500, no questions asked, for his safe return. 
 
 “The signs are on every major cross intersection in the city,” King said. “We’re working on more. I just put in an order for another 100 signs.” 
 
 Social media has played a large role in Theo’s search, too; one Instagram user shared Theo’s picture and information with more than six million followers, boosting the missing dog’s visibility far beyond the region, and many more people have circulated King’s flier as well. 
 
 Numerous citizens have contacted King claiming to have seen Theo, but all those tips led nowhere. 
 
 “I get hundreds of calls a day that ‘maybe this is your dog or maybe this is a sighting,’ so I have to go to make sure it’s not him,” she added. “My phone rings off the hook all day long and it’s all false leads…it’s a lot of stress and crying.” 
 
 One recurring problem for King is that many callers have mistaken Theo for a Yorkshire terrier because of his small size and black-and-tan coat. There are several identifying characteristics of the Brussels griffon breed that she said people should remember if they think they’ve spotted Theo. 
 
 “He looks just like an Ewok,” she said, referring to the hairy creatures from the “Star Wars” franchise. “Ten times a day, (people) say, ‘Awww, what a cute little Ewok’.” 
 
 Theo also has a snaggle tooth and several features that are different from Yorkshire terriers such as “a very flat face” and “really long legs.” He is not neutered, weighs about 12 pounds and was wearing a blue and red collar and a red harness when he ran away. King also is desperate to get Theo back because he needs antibiotics for an abscess. 
 
 Losing Theo has been a painful experience, but King and her fiance remain hopeful that eventually they will get the call they’ve been anxiously waiting several weeks for. King believes that patience and persistence are the keys to tracking him down. 
 
 “I won’t give up until he’s home,” she said. “Most of the time they’re close to where they were lost. I just think it’s persistence and getting as many eyes on it as possible. We have faith.” 
 
 Some people have mocked or criticized the couple’s efforts to find Theo, but King isn’t bothered. 
 
 “People without dogs don’t get it, but people with dogs understand,” she said. “You’d go to the ends of the Earth. There’s nothing that you wouldn’t do because they’re family.” 
 
 Anyone with information about Theo’s whereabouts is asked to call 310-663-2652. A $3,500 reward, no questions asked, is being offered to whoever finds him.
– A California couple has postponed their wedding to dedicate all their time, energy, and money to finding a missing family member: their dog. "The only thing I can think about right now is finding Theo," Trendee King tells CBS San Francisco. The 1-year-old Brussels griffon escaped from a dog-sitter Feb. 13 in San Jose while King was in Los Angeles buying a wedding dress. She immediately flew home, and the search was on. King and fiance James Galley have put up 800 laminated posters, hired a pet detective, offered a $3,500 reward, run newspaper ads, and spent every day since Theo ran away looking for him, the San Jose Mercury News reports. But that's not all. The couple, who describe the hunt for Theo as a "full-time job," used a bloodhound to track their missing pup and even dug up the remains of a dog buried by the side of the road in order to have a vet identity them, Fox News reports. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, King, a Hollywood makeup artist, and Galley, an executive at Netflix, have spent thousands of dollars looking for Theo. King says it's "torture" not knowing where her beloved dog is and they will search "to the ends of the Earth" to find Theo, who has his own Instagram page. “I won’t give up until he’s home,” she tells the Mercury News. (Missing dog found three years later and 1,200 miles away.)