{"id":555,"date":"2026-10-14T14:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T14:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/search-for-dog-still-missing-in-yellowstone-pressured-as-winter-approaches-national-globalnews-ca\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T14:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T14:46:15","slug":"search-for-dog-still-missing-in-yellowstone-pressured-as-winter-approaches-national-globalnews-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/search-for-dog-still-missing-in-yellowstone-pressured-as-winter-approaches-national-globalnews-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Search for dog still missing in Yellowstone pressured as winter approaches – National | Globalnews.ca"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A small dog that\u2019s been on the loose in Yellowstone<\/a> National Park for a month has been spotted crossing intersections, strolling through employee housing and entering lodges through automatic doors.<\/p>\n

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Yet Luna, a Jack Russell terrier from California, has eluded capture. And with winter closing in, volunteers in the search for the dog say its time is running out.<\/p>\n

Katie Boucher, the volunteer helming the rescue effort, says Luna has good survival instincts. Luna\u2019s family prefers to remain anonymous, but told Boucher that before she was adopted, the 10-year-old dog spent the first year of her life surviving on the streets.<\/p>\n

So far, temperatures haven\u2019t dropped low enough that Luna could freeze, but that could change in an instant. Boucher is hoping the light dusting of snow in the area is enough to make her want to come home.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHopefully she has decided that winter in Yellowstone National Park is not a good vacation,\u201d Boucher said.<\/p>\n

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On the day she was lost, Luna\u2019s family left her in a cabin, with a do-not-disturb sign, while they ventured out to see the park. In what they believe was an accident, housekeeping opened the room door and let Luna out.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe staff then proceeded to chase her around that area of the park for over two hours before the owners came back and discovered all the chaos and their dog missing,\u201d Boucher said.<\/p>\n

Luna\u2019s family searched for their pup, but were told it was likely the terrier either died or was eaten by a coyote, Boucher recounted. Days after leaving Yellowstone, Luna\u2019s owners were told she had been spotted, and contacted Boucher, the president of the Norris Ark Training and Recovery Center in Norris, Montana, an area just north of the national park.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI cannot fathom how I would feel if I had been taking the vacation of a lifetime, and looking for all these memorable experiences in one of the most beautiful places on earth, and lost one of my family members there,\u201d Boucher said.<\/p>\n

Boucher has been tracking sightings of Luna and says the dog is retracing her family\u2019s steps from the day before she was lost, sneaking into eateries or lodges they had visited.<\/p>\n

Locals and tourists calling Luna\u2019s name or chasing her trigger her fight-or-flight response and drive the dog further into the park, Boucher said. The volunteers set a humane trap to lure Luna in using the scent of her family, since using food could attract other wildlife like bears.<\/p>\n

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