Update: Emma the Lost Dog Is Home

Emma, the dog that has been missing since Monday, has been returned—and she also has a new name, Ella.

She was captured in a humane trap on Thursday evening on Marbury Road in Churchill and returned to her owner, Adam Gaynor, who had just adopted Ella and her sister on Monday. 

"Her leash became tangled with her sister's," said Sandy Reech of Track A Pet Pittsburgh. "While trying to untangle them, she got loose."

Reech, along with Deb Jugan and Peggy Buckley, who are also involved with Track A Pet Pittsburgh, were instrumental in helping Ella find her way home to her owner. Track A Pet, which helps find lost pets, has two humane traps and had just purchased the second one.

"My husband Jim and I had the new trap and transported it to Forest Hills/ Churchill," Reech said. "She was in the woods. She kept moving and the trap was moved each time."

Both puppies, who had been abused and are afraid of men, were in a kill shelter until they were rescued by Pam Hoebeck of Pet Match Inc. Hoebeck had joined Track A Pet to search for a lost greyhound in Penn Township, Westmoreland County, Reech said.

"Our other trap is set in Penn Township," Reech said. "So everyone has been going back and forth."

Ella, a mixed breed dog only 7 months old, had last been seen Monday somewhere between Marbury Road in Churchill and Woodside Road in , which is in the vicinity of , so she never got too far away.