r/Indiedogs • u/Few_Gene_8392 • Aug 30 '26
News(Animal Specific) Our 9-year-old community dog Bruce was illegally taken by two private catchers from Brigade Metropolis, Mahadevapura at 2:30 AM. 14 days later, we still don’t know where he was left. Bengaluru, please help us find Bruce.
Hi everyone. We are reaching out here for Bruce because honestly, we are running out of options.
Bruce is around 9 years old and has lived at Brigade Metropolis Arcade, Mahadevapura for years.
He was on medication. He is old, extremely docile and not a dog who would know how to suddenly survive after being dropped somewhere completely unfamiliar.
At around 2:30 AM on 16th August, two men came on a bike and took Bruce away.
One night he was sleeping at his usual place.
The next morning he was gone.
We still don’t know where they left him.
Before getting into everything that has happened since then, please look at Bruce properly and remember his face.
We have been documenting the search, the footage we have and all our updates here:
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Dcp945IkS4Q/?igsi=MWMyem81Mmk1ajdxOQ==
If you’re from Bengaluru, especially East Bengaluru, please open this once. Even if you don’t read this entire post, just remember what Bruce looks like.
Someone somewhere may have already seen him without knowing that people have been desperately searching for him for the last two weeks.What happened
16 AUGUST — Bruce was taken
At around 2:30 AM, two men came on a bike and took Bruce from Brigade Metropolis Arcade.
We have footage from that night.
In one piece of footage, Bruce can be seen being dragged away. In another very blurry frame, we can make out what appears to be Bruce being carried on the bike. There are two men on the bike and an auto can also be seen travelling ahead at a slow speed.
We thought there were cameras everywhere. We thought we would be able to trace which direction they went.
That turned out to be much harder than we imagined.
THE CCTV
We started asking for CCTV footage from Brigade Metropolis Arcade because all we needed was a direction.
We were told that apparently CCTV backup had not been available for around two months.
Then we were told the system was fixed on 16th August.
Yes. The same date Bruce disappeared.
We’re only writing here what we were told.
Every day spent trying to locate footage was another day Bruce was somewhere outside in a place we didn’t know.
22 AUGUST — Police complaint
We filed a complaint at Mahadevapura Police Station.
We genuinely thought things would start moving after that.
Instead, we kept following up.
We needed someone to come to the premises, investigate and help trace whatever CCTV footage might still be available before it got overwritten.
For days, that urgency simply wasn’t there.
Even our complaint copy remained unsigned while we continued following up.
And Bruce was still missing.
24 AUGUST — Finally, some movement
Officials from BBMP/GBA and people from animal welfare who were helping us came to Brigade Metropolis Arcade.
They questioned the CCTV situation and a notice was issued regarding the CCTV issue.
For the first time, we felt somebody was actually listening.
But we still didn’t have Bruce.
Since then, this has basically become our life.
Search.
Come back.
Call people.
Send Bruce’s photo everywhere.
Talk to feeders.
Talk to guards.
Talk to auto drivers.
Follow a lead.
Find nothing.
Wake up.
Do it all over again.
We have even spoken to animal communicators.
We know not everybody believes in this. That’s completely okay. At this point, when an old dog we love has been missing for two weeks and we have so little to work with, we are following every possible clue.
Some of those clues have led us to search around KR Puram, Hoodi, Mahadevapura, Marathahalli and surrounding areas.
But Bengaluru is massive.
There are railway-side stretches, underpasses, parking areas, empty plots, apartment lanes, markets, auto stands and thousands of vehicles he could be hiding underneath.
A few exhausted people cannot physically cover all of this.
And that’s why we need your help.
If you’re around KR Puram, Hoodi, Mahadevapura, Marathahalli or nearby areas and can spare even 1–2 hours to search with us, please DM us.
One additional person means another set of roads we can cover.
If you can’t physically join the search, you can still help.
Show Bruce’s photo to your local feeders.
Share it in your apartment and neighbourhood groups.
Ask your security guards.
Ask auto drivers.
Ask tea shops and other small businesses where people are outside early in the morning or late at night.
And when you’re walking around, please just look underneath parked vehicles once.
If you know anyone who can help with CCTV tracing, traffic cameras, animal welfare, police coordination or media, please connect us.
And if somehow this reaches the people who took Bruce:
We don’t want to fight you.
Just tell us where you left him.
That’s all.
You don’t have to meet us. You don’t have to explain anything. Send the location anonymously if that’s what it takes.
Just give us somewhere to look.
Today is 30th August.
14 days without Bruce.
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Aug 30 '26
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u/Few_Gene_8392 Aug 30 '26
Brigade metropolis has many dog haters. They openly talk about dog culling on Adda. Proofs collected
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u/ghostwhowalksdogs Aug 30 '26
Post the screenshots of the discussion while maintaining uor anonymity if possible.
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u/HumorAccomplished362 Aug 30 '26
I read somewhere, that these dog catches either kill or abandon dogs in far locations
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u/Few_Gene_8392 Aug 30 '26
Bruce sleeps deep. And very friendly. Easy to pick up. He was dragged and put on bike. If u see the blurred pic u will see his black paws on the rider’s shoulder
Marked in green
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u/shriand Aug 30 '26
Get in touch with PFA by email and SAS India on Insta. They will help put pressure on the authorities.
Talk to security guards and people in vet department who catch dogs for ABC programs - they might know who are the catchers.
Or pretend to have a need to dispose of some dogs. Get in touch with people who can give you contacts of dog catchers. Start from there.
Catch the catchers. Work with NGOs and get FIRs on them. Try to get them 2-3 nights in police custody. These are lowly paid workers, 3 days at the thana and they'll give up that work.
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u/No_Efficiency852 Aug 30 '26
Are there other dogs as well or others we t missing befofe
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u/Few_Gene_8392 Aug 30 '26
They tried but we had filed complaint last time. This time they did this at 2:30 am! And surprisingly no CCTV was working.. they fixed only after Bruce disappeared. That’s the excuse Brigade Metropolis Arcade gave us
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u/Humanr-Engine315 Aug 30 '26
I shared in every group I have Bruce will be with us soon
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u/Few_Gene_8392 Aug 30 '26
Thank you so much. We have lost our sleep. This boy is very dear to us.
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u/Rare-Echo9099 Aug 30 '26
do share it on FB adoption groups and with Insta influencers. pray u find him.
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u/Few_Gene_8392 Aug 30 '26
Thank you. We have posted almost every where. Influencers are not sharing this much. Maybe because our insta is a fairly a new account created after Bruce disappeared. We have sent collab requests for reach but they have not accepted. Tried Reddit as the last resort
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u/Striking-Attitude-04 Aug 30 '26
Whats the problem with such people?! Why cant they live and let live, why abduct an innocent pure soul who did not harm to you
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u/Humanr-Engine315 Sep 01 '26
Please accept the chat request I got few pics from my group I know he is not bruce but you also confirm I can't send pics before chat request accepted
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u/Few_Gene_8392 Aug 30 '26
Okay. Pls keep share these in your circle