Indy, a 60-70 pound dog with brindle markings and a Carhartt collar, left its home on Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, Boston Police Officer Rachel McGuire said.

Police are keeping their eye out for a 1-year-old puppy that ran away from his new home Monday afternoon and was spotted on the Massachusetts Turnpike.

“The situation is unique because they just moved,” McGuire said. “Usually dogs know to go home, but he doesn’t really know where home is.”

The dog was seen in the area of North Harvard Street and Cambridge Street, near the Massachusetts Turnpike, McGuire said. A video posted to YouTube Monday shows a dog with markings like Indy bounding down the Pike, cars slowing to get out of its way.


Lauren Berluti, Indy’s owner, said she just moved to Boston from Connecticut for a new job. Monday was her first day in her new apartment.

“He’s an awesome dog,” she said. “He’s the greatest dog ever. I know that sounds so corny.”

She rescued Indy in November 2016, just before Thanksgiving.

While she was moving in, someone knocked on her door, and when she opened it, Indy ran out. It’s the first time he’s gone missing, she said.

“He lived in a more rural area before,” Berluti said. In Connecticut, Indy would go off to chase deer and other wildlife but “he usually [came] right back.”

Berluti said she can’t bring herself to watching the end of the video, but has been told that Indy managed to get off the Pike safely.

“I’m just happy no one has called to say he’s dead, no one’s found him on the side of the road,” she said.

After Indy ran off, she asked a dog walker if she had seen him. The dog walker hadn’t, but promptly texted all her friends to be on the lookout.


“Everybody’s been so helpful,” she said “I actually have a stranger about to pick me up to drive around to find him.”

Calling him her “sidekick,” Berluti said Indy responds to his name and can be lured with food, but asked that people not chase him.

“He thinks people are playing with him so he comes close and then runs away,” she said. “He’s a scared dog ... he’s not aggressive at all.”

Indy has an implanted microchip that can be scanned if found and taken to a veterinarian’s office, she said.

“Just don’t chase him,” she pleaded.

A post on the Boston, MA Lost Pets Facebook page asks people to contact Boston police if Indy is spotted or found.

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