Date Missing: 12/18/18   Date Reunited: 1/26/19   Days Missing: 39

Rozie never even made it in the front door when she arrived at her new home in Peshtigo, WI on 12/18/18. She leaped out of the car and took off running, wearing her little purple vest and dragging a 6 ft. leash.

She was staying in the neighborhood for the first couple days, but no one was able to catch her, so the owners reached out to Get Toby Home for assistance. Within just a couple hours of setting up a live trap, she was already standing in front of it, ready to go in.  Unfortunately, some neighbor dogs came along and scared her away. For the next 3 weeks, Rozie ran far and wide, sometimes
traveling 5 miles in one day, and then 10 miles in the other direction the next day. Her tracks in the snow were followed on railroad tracks, snowmobile trails, power lines, through cemeteries, lumber
yards, parks, parking lots and sometimes right up driveways and on porches and decks, she just never stopped running.

Because she was a new addition to the family, we did not even have a picture of her to use for our “Lost Dog” signs, so we had to use a picture of a look-a-like dog and the one from our camera of her
standing in front of the trap. We were constantly moving the signs and traps to the areas where she was last seen.

The people of Peshtigo and surrounding areas were wonderful about calling in sightings of her, and allowing traps to be set up on their properties, even cooking bacon on their grills to try to draw her in.  Finally, she circled back around to the area she had run from, and was sighted almost every day traveling the frozen river into town, and then disappearing every night. At that point, we had 6 traps and several cameras strategically placed along the river and in town. On day 33, Rozie entered a trap at Tom’s mother’s house on the river, but for some reason the trap door did not close and she was on the run again! Desperately hoping that she would return to that trap, we put her only possession, her bed, in the trap, and prayed.

The nights were getting colder, and we were nervous about the time it might take us to get to her if she was trapped, since we were watching the cameras from a distance away. A local man, named
Joel, who had also been following Rozie’s tracks and watching her movements, offered to be “on call” for us, to help check cameras, and could get to a trap quickly if needed. He was just what we needed to safely continue to keep traps set. Finally on 1/26/19 after 39 days and on the coldest night yet in January 2019 (25 degrees below zero) our little Rozie dove into her bed in that same trap and ended her long, cold journey. Ramblin’ Rozie, as she had become known by the people around Peshtigo, was FINALLY home!