Return of Reid: Missing dog found 6 weeks after escape

He's enjoying the quiet life at home these days, 33 pounds lighter and sporting a new haircut. But Reed seems to be adjusting from life in the wild. He's a warrior. He took care of himself and he figured out a way. Reed and his owner, Lorenzo, were on the TCH driving home when their vehicle left the road. Reed got scared and left the scene of the accident. There were several people there that tried to catch him, of course. But the more, I guess, people tried to catch him, the more afraid he became. and he ran into the woods. So 19 days later, he showed up on a surveillance camera at a cabin in around the Twin Pines area, which is just down the road, I guess about not even a kilometer from the crash site. That was the first time that I guess we had seen him since he went missing. So we were delighted to know that he was still alive. The sightings continued, but then stopped again. Reed's owners didn't want to think of the worst. There was times where it started to creep in, but then we were like, no, until somebody can come to me and say he's no longer alive, we're not giving up on him. When you lose your animal, your first reaction is sheer panic, especially under a circumstance like that, strange place, traumatic car accident. And sometimes, you know, when you're not directly involved, you can step back and you get to see the bigger picture. Jackie McCormick volunteers to help find lost pets. She's visited the area to help the family. Everything that she asked us to do, we did because it was really hard for us to understand that Reed no longer recognized us because he had gone into the survival mode, trying to keep himself safe. Everything was a threat to him. With the help of McCormick's live traps and the greater community pitching in, Reed surfaced in Gander three weeks after the last sighting. I called my sister-in-law and I said, do you have any moose meat? Because she bottles lots of meats and stuff. So she gave me a bottle of moose meat. We took it to Gander, the hotel that we were staying in, warmed it up for us. We put it in two of the traps, and a friend of ours from Gander, Melissa and Jamie, who have been helping us, they cooked some moose meat as well, so we put that in a third one. The cooked moose worked, and Reed walked in for a meal in the middle of the night. We took him out of the cage. He was perfect, and he's been perfect ever since. We were so touched by how many people cared about our dog. And at one point, when we did get a better idea of where he was to, we decided to post that on Facebook because there were so many people that were truly invested in his safety that we felt like, you know, we want to let people know that he is alive. I can't wait to get to meet Reed. I usually do get to, you know, get a little bit of a snuggle. they're a little bit far away and life has been busy there's been uh there's been three other dogs that i've tried to help with since reed got home so yeah so we're hoping in the next couple of days to uh to finally meet reed's weight is slowly getting back to normal and carmel says his appetite is coming around before the accident which took place right here reed had never been off-leash. The family says after this ordeal, that 45 days without one will likely be his last Troy Turner, CBC News, on the TCH just west of Gander