Wow - In the past hour alone I have received 12 emails from members of this listserve, expressing their happiness that Nelson was finally found yesterday. Many asked for details about how he was found. Thank you all for caring so much about a missing dog and offering ideas and experiences. First, let me clarify that Nelson is not my dog but belongs to some good friends who live in Squirrel Hill. He escaped from the car on Washington Blvd near the U Haul place, on June 8. He took off into the woods, even though people stopped right away to try to catch him. For the next 10 days, there were sightings reported all over the east end neighborhoods and Penn Hills, and his family assembled a team of searchers who worked day and night to find him. The effort was incredibly well done, using the standard flyers on telephone poles but also using social media and photographs ingeniously. His picture and information was shared all over Pittsburgh. There was a long period - 6 days - of no sightings, and that was discouraging, but then on Thursday morning drivers and construction workers began calling in with reports of sightings. Nelson's family and their volunteers were on it immediately, driving all over the area around the VA Hospital, Westinghouse High School and Homewood. He was on the move and they saw him but he would not come. It took all day yesterday and the drama was incredible - we could follow it all day on Facebook as the searchers communicated with each other and mapped out his every move. The searchers recognized that he was moving in a circle and they surrounded him and got ahead of him. He was finally "captured" in an alley in Homewood around 4 PM. He is okay, except for scratches. He was taken right to the vet and then home, home at last. He was never very far from where he was initially lost. I think the whole community eventually knew about Nelson. The support was amazing. Saturating the city was SO productive - and today they are removing the flyers. There are no strangers in Pittsburgh! Here is Nelson, back in the car and smiling. Thanks again. Nancy Kennedy