A German Shepherd is back home in Methuen after she got loose and wandered into the middle of I-495 Wednesday afternoon.
Rose Marchand said she let the 9-year-old dog, Lexi, out into her fenced-in backyard on Wednesday afternoon. Somehow, Lexi escaped and ended up on the busy highway a half mile away. Methuen Police Sgt. Tom McMenamon was one of the police officers who noticed her.
"You don’t often see that at all," said McMenamon. "I don’t think I once saw that in all the years I’ve been on."
State Police slowed cars on the road down to 20 miles per hour and a state trooper used a granola bar to get Lexi off the road and into a cruiser. Lexi, who has a dollar and is microchipped, was turned over to Animal Control, who brought her home.
Marchand said she did not realize Lexi had escaped from the backyard until she got a phone call from Animal Control.
"She said, ‘I’m in your driveway.’ So I hung up and went out and there was the dog in the car," said Marchand.
Marchand said she found a small hole in her backyard fence and believes that is how Lexi escaped. She has since patched it up.
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