Burk is offering a $10,000 reward for anyone who can bring Pickle home safely — and he's spreading the word far and wide. For the last two months, Burk has plastered Pickle's face on three billboards, RTD buses and a series of digital advertisements throughout the Denver metro area to reach anyone who might know where Pickle is.
"I just want my dog back," Burk says. "He is a very good boy, and I miss him dearly. I’d pay a lot more than $10,000 if I knew he would come home. ... He's the guy. He's truly man's best friend. Always there, always available and supportive and affectionate."
Pickle went missing over Labor Day weekend. It's unknown whether he escaped from his yard in Sunnyside or was abducted from it, but Burk says he believes Pickle was taken.
"He's very timid. He would not have left the yard on his own," Burk says. "Which is why the reward is the way it is. It's trying to entice someone who might have stolen him to surrender him, but giving them plausible deniability to do so without admitting that they stole the dog."
"It's no questions asked," he adds. "If that dog comes back to me, here's $10,000."
Anyone with information about Pickle's whereabouts is asked to contact [email protected].
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The advertising campaign has yielded several leads, some helpful but the majority "garbage," Burk says, with many people providing false information or photos of other dogs in attempts to secure the reward money. But he hasn't lost hope.
"With some of the leads I've gotten, I suspect that he's in or around the Denver area and that someone is taking care of him," Burk says. "He probably wants to come home, but he can't speak for himself. ... I have the means to take it a little over the top, and I think he would want me to."
Burk describes Pickle as a five-year-old male Labradoodle, silver-brown in color, neutered and weighing about forty pounds.
Anyone with information about Pickle's whereabouts is asked to contact [email protected].
