Many eyes seek a red-and-white dog running loose near Windsor

A corps of dog lovers has used humane traps, a drone and assorted tactics to attempt to capture a red-and-white Australian shepherd that’s been on the loose in and near Windsor for five months.

It was April when “Bond” was frightened by a loud noise and jumped from her new master’s arms on Shiloh Road.

Beverly Bragg had just had the dog flown from a breeder in Nebraska to San Francisco International Airport and was driving her home to Rio Dell in Humboldt County. They stopped in Windsor and Bragg let the dog relieve herself alongside the road, then was lifting her back into her car.

A large truck’s brakes bellowed and the dog wriggled free, and ran. Bragg recalled Thursday that she and Bond were standing still and looking at each other from across a ditch on Shiloh Road.

“All I did was pivot a foot and that was the last time I saw her.”

Since then, Bond was been sighted throughout the Windsor area, most recently near or along the railroad tracks that run well to the west of Highway 101. She may be injured because sometimes when she’s spotted she stands and runs with her front left paw raised.

Bond is so quick to flee that Bragg and Santa Rosa resident Patty Downey Slyker, one of the people trying to rescue her, ask that anyone who sees her not try to catch her but simply watch her from a distance and dial Sherri Johnson at (707) 396-1966.

If you see her, it would be helpful if you’d note the time and location, and report them at that number.

The rescuers’ current strategy is to hope that if Bond is not actively pursued she’ll settle in an area and to put out food for her, then a live trap.