A thief stole a puppy from a Naperville pet store on Friday, hiding the dog under his shirt, while distracting an employee. The young man reportedly asked the employee if he could see the dog, requested information about it, and then hurried out, when the clerk went to get the dog out for him.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Mike Isaac, the pet store’s owner, said that the 2-month-old Pomeranian puppy was the smallest dog in the shop, weighing only 2 pounds, and that "it needs to be cared for like a newborn baby."

The shop’s surveillance cameras captured images of the thief hiding the tiny puppy and rushing out of the store. The man seems to be aged between 18 and 22, and is about 5 foot 8 tall, police informed.

Isaac hopes the dognapper would be located with the help of the microchip embedded beneath the puppy’s skin.

As the Pomeranian is not worth too much money without its paperwork, police suspects that the thief did not steal the dog in order to sell it, but as a present for a friend or family member.

"It's considered retail theft," Sgt. Ken Keating said, according to the Chicago Tribune. "A shoplifting. Purebred dogs are expensive. The downside for this guy is that he doesn't have the paperwork."

A website, Helpmefindmypet.com, alerted all veterinarians and pet stores on a 50-mile area about the robbery.