Great Dames Trap & Recover

09/26/2025

🚨🚨🚨We need sightings of this pup in Gerry NY. The dog did not show up at either one of my food stations last night.This is the best and only picture anyone was able to get. This photo was last week at the rodeo grounds, but the dog is usually seen up Gerry Ellington road as well. Please call 716-397-2506 if you have seen this dog. Ty !!

09/24/2025

Update : A couple of food stations have been set up for this pup. Praying that he/she finds them . This pup has been running all summer and is in pretty rough shape from what I'm told .
Kim Nickerson has brought to our attention about a small black dog approx 15 lbs that has been running around Gerry NY all summer long and no one can catch it. Has anyone seen it lately? Does anyone know who this dog possibly belongs to? If so please call 716-397-2506. If anyone does see it, please do not call out to it or chase it. Just call the number in this post and report the sighting and which direction it was heading. If you see the pup in your yard more than one time, please put food and water out for it In hopes that it will stick around there and we can get a trap set. Please share this post if you live anywhere in this area. Thank you so much.

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09/24/2025

We've been following this post from Patty Niles Warner and asking that folks put food out for him so he we stop running. Katie Gerace reached out and she happily put food out for Apollo as did Kevin Hansen. There were a lot of sightings coming in and Deborah his owner would get there as quickly as possible but always miss Apollo, because when he was sighted, he would flee into the woods behind Katie's house. Yesterday morning Katie messaged me to let me know Apollo was eating there. Yay this was the first step !!! So after trapping the Scandia stray, I dismantled the trap and headed for Jamestown where Kim and I set it up immediately at Katie's house. We asked Deborah the owner to bring up a shirt with her son's scent on it. And she also brought a favorite squeaky ball that Apollo liked. We had the trap assembled,
baited with hot fresh rotisserie chicken and scent trails ran by 4 p m. We went home, Had some dinner, sat down in my chair to watch a little tv and at 8:05 p m, my phone dinged, I checked the camera and there was Apollo already in the trap. I jumped up, grabbed my keys, stopped and picked Frankie Notoro Johnson up and we headed back to Jamestown to meet Kim. We called the owner and she was on her way over. Meanwhile, Apollo was in a very good mood, while finishing up his chicken dinner and playing with his new ball and smelling his owner's scent on the shirt inside of the trap 🥹 he is such a sweet, beautiful boy and we are so lucky that he is still with us because he was crossing busy Peck Settlement road daily and they lived on a curve where cars consistently travel at sixty miles an hour. So thank you God, for keeping him safe until we could get him trapped and back home safely. A big thank you to Katie and Kevin for putting food out for him. And to Katie and Joey Gerace for allowing us to use their property to trap him. And thank you to all of the people who posted and commented about sightings. See video in comments.

09/23/2025

The Scandia PA stray is trapped and safe. This dog has been wandering all over Scandia for the past 2 weeks that we know of. I was cruising Deep woods camping rentals looking for the dog when I ran across Jesse Laufferburger. He stated that he had seen the dog several times but hadn't seen him in a couple of days. Timing is everything because while we were talking we looked down into the woods and wouldn't you know it, the dog was walking up towards his house. When he saw us, he retreated into the woods. So I asked Jesse if we could do a food station and camera's to see if the dog would come back and eat, and he graciously said yes. So that evening, someone commented on the post that they saw the dog down by the state line, which was 3.2 miles from where my food stations were. I was kind of bummed out ,I wasn't sure if the dog would come back. But yesterday morning, our cameras went off and there he was eating at the food station. So Vicki and Kim immediately went down and set a trap, and as we were leaving, we saw him coming back into the neighborhood, but just then we got a big rainstorm so he didn't show up. 3:15 am our phones went off. He was in the trap !!! So Frankie Notoro Johnson and I jumped up ,got dressed headed out there 🥴 These darn dogs always wait until 2 or 3 am to go into a trap !! So this beautiful brindel boy has one brown eye and one blue eye ,He's wearing a heavy pinch collar .He is an intact male. He is not microchipped. So if anyone knows who this dog might belong to or recognizes it, please contact Paws Along the River Humane Society . Thank you so much Jesse for letting us use your property greatly appreciate it !!!! Thank you to all of our spotters also !!! ❤️

09/23/2025

Great news, little Daisy is home safe. Frankie Notoro Johnson and I were on our way to the area to look for a missing Pitbull that had been running for days around a campground when Allie Whitten reached out and told us about this little peanut that had gone missing that morning from its campsite. Her husband Kyle had been cutting wood out back and Daisy wandered up to him but then took off into the woods . She was seen several times by Allie and also by her owner but wouldn't come to him. And also seen on the main hwy by another camper that followed her to get her off the highway and back Into the campground area. So we set a trap right away. Cameras didn't have great reception there so Kyle went to check the trap about 8:30 pm when he walked up on a bear 😖 He turned around to go home and get some protection.When he returned to the trap, the bear was in the trap. This is a first for me , I've never trapped a bear before. So as he's trying to figure out how he was going to release this bear, another one came out from the woods !!!! Just then the trapped bear started panicking in the trap and smashed out the rear door of the trap heading towards Kyle. Kyle was able to scare the bears in the other direction. He then tried to bend the trap back so it would work incase Daisy came back ,but with the scent of bear in the trap there was no way she was coming back. So the next day I went early and cooked bacon in the area to get some good smells in the air and cleaned the trap with fresh grass in it and we moved it closer to where we thought she was. A family friend, Dan camps there also and his dog and Daisy are besties so we discussed with Grant, Daisy's owner about taking the dog in from the road towards the trap. They got into the goldenrods and sure enough there she was. She saw her buddy and ran right to him 👏❤️ Great job guys . A huge thank you to Allie and Kyle for their help. Kyle is very brave because what he didn't know until we watched the video, is that there was 3 bears there as you will see 3 sets of eyes in the video in the comments. Grant, you are such a nice young boy, and I love the love that you had shown for your dog. He worked tirelessly looking for her and getting the word out around the campground, great job!!!

09/21/2025

UPDATE: This pup's owner was found, but not until the dog ended up over two hours away from where it lived which was Mt Jewett Pennsylvania. Thank you to Pet Recovery of Centre County for working hard to find this pup's owners !!!!! This is the very reason why people need to microchip their pets !!!
Does anyone recognize this pup ?? Please share post Ty !!

📌This very young pup was found on Route 46 between Emporium and Smethport in the Cameron–McKean County area and was then brought to Centre County PAWS by a kind traveler who secured her.

The best location reference we have is between Kinzua State Park and Hyner View State Park.

If you recognize this pup or know someone in that area, please share to help get her home.

09/20/2025

UPDATE: trapped and safe !!!!!
Update: Dog was seen yesterday 3 miles away from the food stations 😞 he is now near the state line. Please report any sightings ty !!.UPDATE: We spotted this dog in an area that he has been frequenting for the last few days to a week, we have a food station and a camera set up, we're just waiting for him to find it, and then we will be getting a trap set for him.🚨 ALERT 🚨There is a male pitbull mix wandering around the Red Oak campgrounds for the last few days. It was also seen at Webbs ferry a week ago. It apparently has been running around for a month or so. It is very skittish, so do not call out to it or try to capture it, It is losing weight ,if anyone sees this dog in their yard.Please put food out for it and water and contact me. So we can get a trap set for it. It appears to have on a pinch collar. 716-397-2506

09/14/2025

These little stinkers have been running around Jamestown for days. We're not sure if they were dumped or just escaped their home, but no one is looking for them. Andrew Faulkner and Lindsay Fox posted about these two so we reached out and gathered some more information. I went up and drove around the next morning and finally sighted the 2 of them , I tossed some food out the window, and then got out of my car and tried to lure them. But they were not having it. I ran into the dog control officer in the neighborhood because he had gotten several calls as well and we discussed that there was no catching these dogs and that they would have to be trapped. So I drove around for a couple more hours, encountering them several times noticing where they were hanging out. I asked a a gentleman by the name of Jose , if I could put a food plot and a camera on their property and he said sure. So luckily, they came back around 5 PM and found the food. So that very evening Frankie Notoro Johnson , Tracy M Horner and I went up to set a trap. We chose to use the large missy trap even though the dogs are small because they were traveling so closely together and I thought they would come back together to the trap. So at 3 AM I received a notification. There was a cat at the trap. But for some reason, the door was closed. So I got dressed drove to Jamestown to re-open the trap. As I was heading back home, I received a notification, and I thought, oh no the cat is there again but when I checked the camera, there was the little white dog all by itself just 20 minutes after I left, going into the trap. So I hurried up and turned the car around and drove back to the trap.The black one was not with him. I was kind of bummed at that point thinking that the dogs had been separated because they were separated earlier that day, but they found each other again. Vicki and Tracy met up at 4:30 AM to retrieve the white pup out of the trap. We reset the trap and went home. About 8 AM the next morning.
I received a notification and checked the camera and the door had closed again on the trap 😖. So I headed back to Jamestown to fix the trap ,rebaited ,stuck around for an hour or so thinking the black dog would show up. But he didn't. Went back home then about 11am he showed up and went into the trap. Thank goodness !!! Thank you to Andrew and Lindsay for your help and to the other spotters who commented on the posts with sightings because this is how it all starts. And a big thank you to Jose and Alba Rodriguez for allowing us to use their property and to Alba for sitting with the pup until the Dames could get there. Thank you all !!! These pups are the sweetest and seem to bond very quickly with people, they are at Pick of the litter . See videos in comments.

09/10/2025

This big, beautiful girl who we have named Big Betty was dumped after having a litter of puppies along route 89 in Wattsburg, PA. Tammy Benedict reached out on 8/16 after she was unable to capture the dog. Frankie Notoro Johnson and I immediately went out there to look for her and to see if there was any puppies, but we were unsuccessful. The next day Vicki Cusimano from Great Dames and Jan Dean from Canine Crusaders, went up and posted a bunch of signs around the neighborhood, some sightings started to come in, but few and far between. People would try to capture her and she would just run. So a gentleman sent us a picture of her laying right where she was dumped about a week or so later , she had made her way back there. So we went up and set up food plots and cameras, and she showed up and ate the food that night. So we were confident that if we put a trap up the next day, we would have her... Well, Big Betty did not show back up which is very unusual once they get a meal. Frankie Vicki and Michael kept the trap baited with fresh bait every other day, but still she was a no show. So we went about a week without a sighting, and then Joe McCall who is on Station road called me and said, Hey, I think I have this dog on my ring camera and sent me the video, and yes, there was Big Betty !!!! So I asked him if he would go out and put food out for her to see if she comes back and she did !!! So Michael Valerio and I went and relocated the trap on Joe and Haley's property, which was 5 miles away from the previous trap location, hoping and praying she would come back this time for another meal. About 8:50 pm Betty showed up, cleaned up all the scraps outside the trap and went right in !!! It is unbelievable that someone could dump a sweet soul like Big Betty. The Anna Shelter has taken her in, and will have her checked out and put up for adoption soon. Thank you Staci Lynd for your great behind the scenes, work with social media ,sightings and shelters. Thank you for our spotters and a special Thank you to Joe and Haley for the use of your property and your cooperation. The cooperation of the homeowner is so important in dog rescue 9 times out of 10 it's the break we need to get these dogs to safety. You helped save this beauty ❤️ No more lonely nights for you sweetheart, hopefully better days are coming.❤️🙏 see videos in comments

09/09/2025

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09/08/2025

🚨 ALERT 🚨
There is a golden retriever with a purple bandana on running in the area of Mohawk Ave past Morrison run rd towards Chapman dam rd. Mouth full of porcupine quills and looks to have blood on its back right leg. Has anyone seen this pup? Please if you have or know the owners please tell them or call us at 716-397-2506 ASAP. Thank you and please share this post.