West Hazel Dell — It’s not quite “Moby Dick,” but by the time Patrick Higbie, an animal control officer with Clark County Animal Protection & Control, caught Milo, he had been chasing the Chihuahua mix for five days.

It started when Higbie saw Milo wandering around near Lake Shore Elementary School and gave chase on Jan. 7.

Milo slipped away and escaped in the residential area near the school. Higbie had seen Milo before, though. Someone posted the dog’s photo on the Lost and Found Pets in Vancouver Facebook page.

A few days later, Higbie got a call that a dog was loose in someone’s front yard near 78th Street, and went to check on it, since he didn’t want the dog to run out into the busy street. He figured it was Milo.

“He’d kind of become my nemesis by that point,” Higbie said. He set a box trap and on the morning on Jan. 12, he saw that it was indeed Milo, who had gone missing around Christmas.