Jamaica Bay Is No Place For A Lost Pup

I know baggage handlers at JFK like to steal shit, but this is out of control:

An award-winning pooch from the Westminster Kennel Club show bolted from her travel cage yesterday as she was being loaded onto a California-bound plane — and vanished into the marshes around Kennedy Airport.

Vivi, a 3-year-old brown-and-white whippet that canine connoisseurs say could be worth more than $50,000, was still a stray as of last night, despite a day-long search by Port Authority police in SUVs, a helicopter and a boat.

Distraught owner Jil Walton, 39, said she feared for Vivi’s life.

“When it’s cold she’s not happy,” Walton said. “She’s a skinny little thing and I don’t know if she’ll make it. That’s what’s killing me.”

“God,” she said ruefully, “I want this dog back.”

Walton said she’d “consider” a reward for Vivi’s return, but didn’t name a figure.