The Wood family thinks they know how you took Titan.

They think you first spied the 5-month-old puppy playing in front of their Lancaster Township home.

They think you waited until they went to work Wednesday.

Then they think you went around to the back of their home, where Titan was attached to a dog line, unsnapped him and took him.

A short time later, somebody thought they saw you walking the dog through the Woods' Hawthorne Ridge neighborhood, off New Danville Pike. Later Wednesday, somebody else thought they saw you with the dog on Manor Street in Lancaster.

Josh Wood, 32, is looking for you.

Wood's son, who will turn 3 today, can't understand what happened to his puppy. He regularly goes outside and calls Titan's name from the back porch, where the dog liked to lie.

Wood's wife, Febes, has cried over the loss of the dog, who was, Wood said, "the friendliest, calmest dog I ever met in my life."

"It's horrible," Wood said. "We feel horrible."

The Woods, who live in the 200 block of Kentshire Drive and also have a 1-year-old daughter, bought Titan about three months ago, paying $800 for the dog, who is a purebred blue pit bull.

"I have owned them before," Wood said of the breed. "They're good family dogs who have gotten a bad rap."

Wood and his wife keep the dog outside during the day if the weather is nice. They have a deck and a shaded area. Wood comes home from his job as a real estate salesman at lunchtime to feed the dog.

But when he came home Wednesday, Titan was not there. Thinking his wife had put the dog inside, fearing rain, he checked Titan's crate in the house. The dog wasn't there, either.

During the day, Titan isn't visible from the family's front yard, and he's not a barker. He also is not an escaper. His line broke recently, and the puppy waited on the deck for a family member to find him. And Wood replaced the line with one suitable for a 200-pound dog.

That's why Wood thinks someone had seen the dog and went looking for him.

"I think someone was watching us," he said "They had to know he was there."

Since the theft, Wood has posted messages about it on Facebook. He also posted fliers around his neighborhood and on Manor Street, where a family friend thought he saw the dog.

"I can't believe someone would do this," Wood said. "I know the dogs are valuable, and he's not fixed. Someone could steal him and breed him and sell the pups.

"It's tough, but I know a lot of people all around, and I have everyone looking."

Titan is bluish-gray and weighs about 40 pounds. He has a white stomach and a white patch of fur on his front right paw.

Anyone with information about the dog is asked to call Manheim Township Police at 569-6401.

cstauffer@lnpnews.com