A happy ending to the search effort for a lost rescue dog on the west coast this week.

Sable a nine-year-old German Shepherd-Hound mix was rescued from a shelter in Texas and was set to meet her new owners in Corner Brook last weekend, but she escaped from the transport van before she ever had the chance.

After four days on the run, the dog was found yesterday hiding out under someone’s deck.

Jesika Boyde of St. John’s is Sable’s new owner. She was in Corner Brook to get the dog but had to return home for work while the search was happening. Overjoyed to hear the animal was found, she says Sable is doing very well.

Boyde says she cannot thank the city enough for how they rallied behind her. She calls it the most amazing thing she has ever seen. Boyde’s boyfriend is set to fly to the west coast this weekend to get the dog.

Sable was one of 27 dogs brought to the province over the weekend. The dogs were transported to the Canadian border at Nova Scotia, where they were transferred to a separate vehicle and brought to the ferry by a volunteer in that province.

A local volunteer then picked up the dogs at Port aux Basques, but Sable made a bolt for freedom in the Margaret Bowater Park area.