11/18/2025
Lost Mansfield CT
🎉💥Yaya has been found!🎉💥
This little girl is one tough cookie! There was one sighting called in to Mansfield Animal Control by a nice woman named Ashley on Tuesday morning on Rte 32 by Forest Road which was a mile from where she went missing the day before. James come out with his tracking dog Apollo and tracked her on the trail incase she returned there and then out to the road. Ben came out and flew his thermal drone in the area of the sighting but there was no sign of her. Her owners Zhenzhen and Yang, CTDGRV Sharon and a former lost dog owner Mark put up posters and passed out handouts everywhere! This morning the call we needed came in! Someone saw the poster and called the owner right away. Yaya was walking up Forest Rd. They stayed a long distance from her and just slowly followed her in their car. The owners got there and Sharon told them how to stay calm. They saw her and stopped and opened the car door. It took a minute but then she ran to them and jumped right into the car!
Thank you to her owners Zhenzhen and Yang who never gave up and spent countless hours doing everything to find her, to Mark for going out everyday and passing out handouts, talking to everyone he saw and flying his personal drone, to Ryan a very concerned resident who was constantly checking the trails and keeping in touch with Sharon, to Mary for giving us permission to fly the drone on UCONN property, to Ben for flying his thermal drone, to James and his dog Apollo for tracking, to Nicole from Killingly Staples for always providing the posters, to all the people in the community that were watching out for her, to the wonderful people Kevin and Laura that saw her this morning and did all the right things to keep her safe, to Mansfield Animal Control for informing us of the first and only other sighting and to CTDGRV Sharon for putting up posters, calling in all the resources and helping the owners every step of the way. Welcome home Yaya! ❤️🐾
Missing in Storrs/Mansfield!
Update:
One sighting Tuesday morning 11/18 on Rte. 32 between Rte. 44/Rte. 195. Please keep eyes open.
This little girl ran from the trail at Shelter Falls off of Birch Road and has not returned. Please call in sightings immediately to (510)356-8386. She can be shy so please do not try to chase her.