AUBURN - When the 1-year-old dog she d adopted a week earlier got spooked and ran off from her home, Cindy Kelson did what any frantic dog owner would do: She went out searching.
And after spending hours in a winter storm, scouring her neighborhood near Elmwood Street, talking to every snowplow driver and never catching a glimpse of Gwen, a white Great Pyrenees mix, she went home, worried and sad.
Missing Dogs of Massachusetts and Auburn Animal Control Officer Aimee Contois began helping Kelson in her search. Posters went up, social media posts went out and folks who might see Gwen were urged to do exactly the opposite of what they d probably want to do.