Mom orders kids to steal a puppy.

Crime: If you are going to steal something, don't involve you kiddies.

Since March 12 Guppi's owners, Donna McGee and her family, had searched their neighborhood in Antioch, a suburb about 50 miles east of San Francisco, for their beloved Chihuahua-Pekinese. After Guppi disappeared from the front porch, the McGees posted signs offering a $500 reward and baked cookies to anyone who returned the dog. A neighbor, Duane Thurston, was working in his yard when Guppi was nabbed. He said he heard a woman yell "Hurry up and get the dogs," before two little girls, 7-to-10 years old, jumped out of an SUV and grabbed the dog before speeding away. The girls told the principal at Carmen Dragon Elementary School that their mother instructed them to steal Guppi because "she wanted the dog." The pooch was returned safely home Thursday morning. No arrests have been made, but Antioch police are investigating the case. "I cant imagine a mother would send her daughters to steal someone else's dog. To involve a child in theft is just wrong," McGee said.