Missing dog sparks chaos on M25 as mutt shuts down motorway eight times during hunt

A DOG missing for 11 days unopen the M25 8 times.

Nicola Patterson, 33, was connected vacation erstwhile favored Phoebe escaped from a friend’s garden.

Nicola flew backmost from Majorca portion her member led 15 searchers.

Welsh Springer Spaniel Phoebe had crossed the A2 adjacent Bean, Kent, to scope the motorway.

After M25 closures pursuing sightings, Lost Dog Recovery asked National Highways to enactment successful cameras.

Phoebe was spotted and she and Nicola were reunited astatine 12.15am connected September 8.

Nicola said: "They’d enactment the canine crate up to the backmost doorway and they undid it and she came flying successful bouncing done the backmost doorway and she was truthful blessed to spot us.

“Apart from being skinny and a spot of tegument missing from her pads, determination was thing other incorrect with her.

“She was bouncing astir similar she’d conscionable been retired for a walk, not that she’d been missing for 11 days.

“That was my husband’s day - truthful it was similar a day contiguous that she’d travel home.

“There was truthful overmuch adrenaline that I couldn’t get to slumber for hours afterwards.”