UPDATE: Scooter Returns Home

After searching Lacey endlessly for Scooter for four days, Roxanne Stevens finally has her beagle back home.

Stevens emailed Lacey Patch Friday night with the update. A woman recognized Scooter from his photo and notified Stevens, who then lured him back home.

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Thursday, March 15, 1:35 p.m.

There was a sound of helplessness in Roxanne Stevens' voice after spending hours on end looking for Scooter, her beagle.

Scooter dug out from under a fence on the 200 block of Birch Lane in Forked River on Monday, March 12 and has been missing ever since.

“It’s frustrating,” she said. “I don’t know where to begin looking for him. If I look in one direction, he might be in another direction.”

The beagle must have been digging for a while on Monday night but the Stevens family never noticed, she said.

“It’s not a large hole by any means,” Roxanne Stevens said. “Somehow he was able to get out.”

Scooter has been missing since 10 p.m. on Monday. Roxanne Stevens saw him twice that night—once in the Game Farm area and another at the intersection of Juniper Lane and Sunset Drive.

“He’s so skittish because he’s a retired laboratory beagle,” she said. “Any noise or anything at all, he just runs.”

There were no sightings of the two-year-old dog on Tuesday but the Stevens received several calls on Wednesday evening that Scooter had been seen in the woods behind CVS and Walmart.

“I saw him,” Roxanne Stevens said. “He was about 20 feet away from me. As soon as he saw me coming, he ran…Now at this point, I don’t know if he’s still in that area or not.”

Unfortunately, Roxanne Stevens had to return to work today. She believes the only way to catch him at this point is through a live trap with food.

But she hasn’t been able to get a hold of a trap. I Lost My Dog, a lost dog search team, has been a big help, she said. The group has a trap and said they’ll set it up when there’s a sighting.

A Pet Amber Alert was also put out on behalf of scooter, she said.

But Roxanne Stevens doesn’t know where to begin to look anymore, she said. She spent the entire day in the Game Farm area yesterday to only find out there was a sighting at Laurel Boulevard.

Roxanne Stevens is asking anyone who has seen Scooter to call her at 732-859-5373
or I Lost My Dog Search & Rescue at 609-276-4939. A copy of Scooters lost dog flyer can be found here: http://www.ILostMyDog.org/ScooterPoster.html.

She is also asking anyone who can lend live trap, to contact her.

Updates on the search for Scooter can be found on the I Lost My Dog facebook page, Roxanne Stevens’ facebook page, a website for Ocean County Lost Pets and the Help Find Rocky facebook page.

, owned by a Lacey family, that has been missing since the beginning of October.

Roxanne Stevens will also be creating a facebook page specifically for Scooter.

Contact Roxanne Stevens if you are interested in helping in the search this weekend. She’ll be going out on Saturday and Sunday.

“I’d like to pray he’ll be home by then,” she said.