Dog Arc

An image of Music from the Longmont Humane Society's Facebook page.

On July 9th, 2023, Daniel adopted a dog from Longmont Humane Society in Longmont, Colorado and names her Music (formerly Zola). The announcement from Daniel confirming Music’s adoption by him sparked outrage in the subreddit, with many users demanding the dog to be back in the hands of the shelter due to his inability to financially support himself, let alone an animal. The outcry grew so large that the Longmont Humane Society issued a public statement regarding the situation. Luckily, two days later, on the 11th of July, Weenweenmsuic, or ween, liberated Music from Daniel, ending this short-lived, yet hectic fiasco.

A public statement issued by Longmont Humane Society.

Daniel's Lack Of Ability To Care For Music

Daniel is very visibly unfit to care for even himself, let alone a dog.

Daniel cited that his reason for adopting Music was for her to act “As a guard dog”, seemingly believing that Music was a trained guard dog and that she would protect him from harm. Daniel also frequently misgendered Music, sometimes accidentally referring to her as a male, further showing how Daniel was possibly unfit to care for her.

On July 10th, 2023, Daniel purchased a water bowl for Music for $4. It was visibly far too small for a dog of Music's size and was meant to be used for a cat.

Despite all of this, Daniel remained adamant that he was able to support a dog, financially and mentally.

Rescue Attempts

Ox

Soon after it was discovered that Daniel did in fact get a dog, Ox posted on Reddit asking for Daniel's location so that he could rescue the dog stating that he will get to Colorado by motorcycle. He posted this July 9th at 10:00pm Larson Time (Mountain Daylight Time).

Daniel should not have a dog whatsoever. I am not sure how he got it.

I am worried about what sick little fucks may get him to do to the dog or what he may do during a crisis, like beat it.

I’ll go over there as the stars have seemingly aligned again. I am traveling back across country in the rv and had some shit go down about 45 mins from Denver.

-YungDaddyOx

The next day, at 7:37am, Ox made another post stating that he was charging his bike and that he would be leaving soon. Additionally, he asked the community not to berate the rescue as some of the subreddit members started to do so.

Charging up my bike rn. Got it off the rack and seems I left the key in too long getting it on there. Should be good to go in a bit. Might see some rain here as well so seeing how things go. Hopefully can leave soon.

Please do not harm the rep of the rescue, this will harm the chances for the dogs they are trying to save. Letting dan walk out with that dog is wild though and begs the question of someone assisting him. If someone makes contact, see what can be done to return the dog.

-YungDaddyOx

At 10:25am, Ox posted that he had "touched down" in Colorado and was now looking for Daniel, Asking the Daniel Larson subreddit for his current approximate location.

A little over an hour later, at 11:49am, Ox posted that he was unable to locate Daniel, saying that he was calling off his search for him and that had to return to LA. This post was heavily downvoted unlike the previous posts.

Ox makes another post at 2:13pm, "Dan is gone. I have someone helping, he is headed to Denver to see bob. Took the train I think it’s why he’s silent. Yes, I am here." along with a photo of his bike on a street in Longmont, CO. In the comments of the post Ox states that he will try again either tomorrow (July 11th) or the day after (July 12th) indicating that it was difficult to pinpoint an exact location.

I’m gonna try again tomorrow or the next day. I need a good spotting or exact location next time. Can’t blow it. I drove all over today. -YungDaddyOx

KeanuReeveswithagun

After Ox's post regarding the end of his search for Daniel, KeanuReeveswithagun left a comment on the post.

It's ok. I will pickup your failure. I live close to Longmont and I will find him. -KeanuReeveswithagun

The Reddit user posted a couple of additional posts attempting to locate Daniel and an "En Route" post with a picture of a Longmont road sign at around 1:38pm After Ox's "Dan is gone." post they posted a final update at 2:52pm

I'm sorry to report that we missed him. We made it to Longmont but we just missed him. I'm hoping that someone can confront him in Denver. Sorry guys. -KeanuReeveswithagun

Goated Mines

On July 10th, 2023, a YouTuber called Goated Mines uploaded a video titled "Daniel Larson Got a Dog... We need to save it...” where he states that he has contacted Animal Control and the Longmont Humane Society, as well as announces a reward of $100 for anyone who could get Music away from Daniel.

On the same day, Goated Mines made a post on the Subreddit discussing Longmont Humane Society’s response to him.

Ween's Rescue

On July 11th, 2023, Weenweenmsuic, also known as ween, was able to rescue Music while working with Goated Mines and other users in a discord. Ween was able to get the dog by asking to see the dog to ensure that she was okay, then simply walking away and putting her in their car Soon after Goated Mines posted an image of Music on Reddit with a caption saying "MUSIC IS SAFE". After requests for more proof, he later posted a video of Music. Ween themselves also posted an update to Reddit explain what they would do with any donations that were sent their way as well as some more photos of Music.

hello! im ween lol im the music snatcher!! she's doing great and i understand why people are questioning donations and stuff for me but it was originally so i could get up to longmont but im hoping to spoil her and have a lot of things that she can take to her forever family. she's an amazing dog and thank you all for helping her -loverofmoms69 (ween)

Goated Mines posted another update stating that Zola (Music) is on her way back to Longmont with one of the animal caretakers. Followed by another post once she made it

Daniel's Reaction

About 7 Hours after Goated Mines' "MUSIC IS SAFE" post Daniel became active on his YouTube community page again claiming that he had just gotten out of police custody and that he got new criminal charges. He asks the community to help him get Music back and that World pf T-Shirts is somehow connected to "the dog napping situation"

"My current injuries from after the dog napping at Walmart when the police were called"

Daniel explains that he is injured both due to "self-injurious behaviors" and Walmart security guards taking him down.

A combination of self-injurious behavior and the Walmart security throwing me to the ground I hit my head pretty hard on the ground at the Walmart by security and they were sitting right on my knee so when they pin me down the guy pin basically put his me on my head not my neck or anything but on my head self and one other guy was on my knee pinning that like basically my kneecap pinning that to the Walmart floor -@DanielLarson-ob2jw (Daniel Larson)

Daniel begins to tell his side of the story, he repeats the same parts of the story multiple times, is hard to understand (most likely due to speech-to-text) and it is seemingly out of order. Below is an attempt at putting the most relevant pieces in order.

Somewhere along the line I got spotted with the dog and then I left the PetSmart after buying the $50 harness I then fit it on the dog and I went across the street to then get water once again this was around 11 am

After sitting down for about 2 minutes the same lady with the athletic pants and they were shorts she's got tattoos on her arms and legs shows up and starts talking to me hey I haven't seen you in a while I have a friend that is working here at the good times and I came to see them but they're not here yet

She then asks me how my days going starts coughing and then she tells me she is sick and I woke up very sick this morning she then threw up like legitimately this is no joke she would she actually threw up on the f****** ground

And then starts talking about how she's a veterinarian and then she starts talking about how my dog is breathing and saying that my dog can't breathe because she's skipping beats like heartbeats pretty much which at the time I knew that that was somewhat false

She asks me if my dog is dehydrated and if my dog wants water I said I already got water I just came to the good times to actually get a cup of water and she then takes the dog leash from my hand she walks around in a circle around the table and she says see how and then she's also pointing at the stomach of the dog see how it's beating that's not normal

That's what she said and then she says here I'm going to do it one more time and I'm going to show you again and then she grabs pretty much just completely kind of by that time the dog is already kind of just used to her if you know what I mean and then she just snatches the dog up and puts her in the car and just goes off after the dog was already kind of thing you know somewhat if if you know what I mean felt safeThat's what she said and then she says here I'm going to do it one more time and I'm going to show you again and then she grabs pretty much just completely kind of by that time the dog is already kind of just used to her if you know what I mean and then she just snatches the dog up and puts her in the car and just goes off after the dog was already kind of thing you know somewhat if if you know what I mean felt safe

She's also been following on purpose like stalking she's done that before some allergic to what Ivan's done she's been stalking it is a female like I said with glasses and a tattoos on her arms and legs and she just like I said keeps following me around I have a feeling she was at the location last night that's why I texted you for security

And when she drove off I basically started freaking out I started panicking I started hyperventilating to where I felt like I couldn't breathe because I was hyperventilating so much that like literally I just couldn't speak

And I eat my phone was also dead at the time so I couldn't call security I couldn't call you or anything so then what I did was I all I could think about was trying to go to across the parking lot to where the Walmart was and I walk in there of course hyperventilating saying my dog got dog napped that's a security dog is what I said and I'm at that point of time then the security asks me to leave I then refuse and I say call the police at that point it starts like I said creating a scene about 50% of people in the checkout area I'll start rushing over to where I am and start crawling me pretty much and I at that point lash out that's a long story short of what happened I don't know if anybody got anything on camera because of my popularity the police said that there was no physical assault involved other than just reaction like I said out of fear after checking cameras and I had more than the right because I did nothing and yet they were instigating the situation so I had right to protect myself

At that point the Walmart stupid Walmart like I said before decides that they're going to press charges of $2,000 of criminal mischief pretty much just two on purpose because they know I'm a celebrity they want all of my f****** money so they took it as high as they could go pretty much

And they put me in basically I guess you would call protected custody at the time and instead of going to I guess the jail what they did is they take me to the hospital because I had injuries at that time

Charges were pressed on the person that was the dog napper