Mumbai: Dog boards local train to escape firecracker; rescued after 17 days

MUMBAI: A affable pistillate dog, Nemo, who lives successful and astir Pil Court gathering successful Churchgate, precocious underwent a misadventure erstwhile she nervously jumped into a bid astatine Churchgate presumption to flight the large bursting of crackers.

The bid carried her each the mode to the suburbs, and she was yet recovered 17 days aboriginal astatine Kandivli West.Worried residents launched a hunt done online networks. Theatre property Anahita Uberoi told TOI, “Nemo is simply a fashionable canine here, truthful we were each bittersweet erstwhile she ran distant connected the past time of Ganpati immersions owed to the large crackers. Many searched crossed southbound Mumbai but couldn’t find her.”Few imagined Nemo had travelled ticketless by train. A breakthrough came aft 10 days erstwhile a canine feeder, Jenny, spotted her successful Kandivli. A railway canteen lad and a section hawker besides reported sightings and adjacent fed her to support her around. Finally, connected Day 17, the canteen lad called to accidental Nemo was with him. “Her main caregiver, Ram Singh, was the happiest,” Uberoi said.