Date Missing: 4/25/20  Date Reunited: 5/26/20  Days Missing: 32+

NOTE:  Not known how long she was missing before we stepped in.

​On May 7th, 2020 we saw a post on another missing pets page about a dog seen on a home security camera that was not known to the area.  We immediately added it to our page to try to find out if it was someone’s missing dog.

We started getting comments that the dog was seen in the area on another camera and we privately reached out to that homeowner.  On May 9th, we visited the area and talked to the homeowner and other neighbors and we were confident that the dog we were now calling “Railway” (because she was often seen by the RR Museum), was sticking around and that it would be best to get a trap out immediately.  We set 2 traps up in the yard along with cellular trail cameras and later that night, we saw!  Little did we know how SMART this girl was and how hard she would be to trap.

Railway would go to each of the traps and go in just far enough to grab what food she could reach without setting the trap.  She was a master at using the “stretch” to get as much food as she could.  We tried so many different things from covering the trap, keeping it uncovered, trying different textures on the base of the trap, adding food only to the back of the trap, trying all different types of food and even moving the traps to different spots within the yard.  Night after night, she would come back and was like clockwork.  We could nearly predict the exact times she would come in, however we had no luck trapping her in our 6 foot traps.

Initially we did not do any signs or flyers because we knew where she was, but as time went on and we determined she would very likely never go in a trap, we knew we had to find other locations she was seen so we could get the Missy Trap deployed. The current property would not work because is the grading of the yard. We put a handful of signs out and flyered some streets along the path we knew she was taking. Calls came in and lead us to two homes where we could move the traps, one of them happened to be the mother-in-law of one of our Team Toby members. We moved our 6 foot traps and cameras to these 2 locations and sure enough she showed up that night, but yet again, she would not go into the standard traps.

At the mother-in-law’s house, we then started a 3 day process of setting the Missy trap up, sections at a time. We knew she was scared of our other traps so did not want to do anything to scare her away from this one. She immediately started going into the trap sections and even started laying down for short rests which just blew our minds away! It’s like she knew this was home and her safe place. This happened each night/day until we had the trap fully assembled. On May 26th, we set and baited the Missy trap for the last time at 3:00 pm and by 5:24 pm she came for her visit and by 5:26 pm she was in!