Lost Manhattan Dog Found In LIC After Week-Long Odyssey

LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS — A frontline worker was reunited with her dog in Long Island City this week, seven days after the pup ran away from the Upper West Side, according to a new report.

Heather Angus’s dog, Indy, ran away from her Manhattan neighborhood last Tuesday while on a walk with her dog sitter, and was found in a Queens warehouse a week later, reported NBC New York.

"I knew if a dog could do it, it would be Indy,” Angus, a nurse, told NBC of her dog’s cross-borough odyssey, noting that Indy is a fast runner.

"All the people that reported it said, I've never seen a dog run so fast,” said Angus, noting that New Yorkers across the city helped her reunite with her one-and-a-half year old dog, including a Bridge and Tunnel officer who called her to report a dog running through a tunnel, who could have been Indy.

While it’s not confirmed how Indy traveled from the Upper West Side to Long Island City — a journey that’s at least 5 miles — she was eventually found by a warehouse worker in Queens.

“He went to lunch and he saw the flier with the phone number, and that’s how he knew that this was the lost dog,” Angus told NBC that the warehouse worker spotted Indy in the back of the building, and later called her from one of the many fliers she put up across the city.

The week that Indy was missing made Angus feel “hopeless [and] helpless,” but the pup has now been reunited with her owner, and the pair were filmed by NBC back in their Upper West Side neighborhood.

Read the full NBC article, and see a video of Angus and Indy reuniting, here.