BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) – The Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in finding two horses that were stolen from their stable on Sept. 3.

The horses were taken on Seneker Lane by what is believed to be a white four-door Chevrolet or GMC pickup truck around 2 a.m.

Surveillance footage shows the truck on Hobbs Hollow Road. Authorities say the vehicle was last seen on J.H. Fauver Road, heading towards Highway 11W.

Capt. Richard Frazier with the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office described the horses and urged the public to reach out to the sheriff’s office with any information.

“These horses are Painted Tennessee Walkers,” Frazier said. “They’re going to be pretty identifiable. We’re hoping somebody that’s in the community can spot them and maybe see them and then come in here and let us know what’s going on.”

The horses are valued between $5,000 – $10,000.

To owners Patsy and Lonnie Mullins, their horses, Midnight Waltz and Comanche, are worth so much more.

The Mullins are long-time horse lovers and got both horses as pets a few years back.

“We’ve always been the type of people that love horses,” Patsy Mullins said. “Ever since we’ve been together, which has been a long time. [Lonnie] was brought up with horses, and they used horses at home and for a lot of the work they did. He’s worked with horses all of his life.”

The couple described their horses as part of the family. They said their two great-grandchildren adore the horses, and that they just can’t bring themselves to tell the children they’re gone.

“They love the horses,” Mullins said. “They’ve grown up with them, and they know what they can do, and either great-grandchild can go into the stall and riding area with the horses. They were safe and the horses let anyone ride them.”

Mullins described the horses as gentle and sweet.

“They’re like our children,” she said. “To us, they’re no big horse. They’re just our babies.”

Mullins pleaded with the public and whoever took the horses to bring them back.

“We miss them,” she said. “Please, please let us have them back. I would pay the people that took them if they brought them back. I know it sounds silly, but I’d pay them because I know that’s why they took them, to sell them. If we could only get them back.”

The Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office urges anyone with any information regarding the horses’ whereabouts to contact them at 423-279-7331.