Updated: Tako is safe!

Updated! 

Tako was found safe, if not a little shaken, early Sunday evening in Seward Park. Some kind-hearted community members there took her in... and helped reunite Tako and family.

Takoyaki, a 50-pound pitbull mix with large spots on a white body, went missing this afternoon in Tompkins Square Park. 

Her owners say that she is easily frightened... 

Meredith Blake is missing [Updated: found safe!]

Somehow Meredith Blake, aka Mary, got out of the apartment on 11th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B... so if you happen so see her — info on the flyer above.

Vinnie is missing [UPDATED: Vinnie is home safe]

Per the flyer:

Vinnie, very beloved, very friendly, and very dumb, not sure he knows his name but responds to treat-shaking. Gray and white striped. Wearing collar/nametag, microchipped. Probably got over wall to East 2nd Street cemetery or East 3rd Street backyards. Reward!!! 917-446-8822. Missing since late Saturday night, 4/10/21. 

Updated noon:

Vinnie is safe and sound now and hanging out in the living room...

Tuesday's parting shot (aka Prince is home safely)

Missng cat alerts went out yesterday after Prince's foster mom fell returning home from the vet, and the carrier broke open... Prince was believed to be along Seventh Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue... 

Derek Berg took this photo around 5 ... after a search volunteer spotted Prince on the block. He is now home safely.

[Updated] Missing animal

Missing flyers are out for a "mixed lost animal." The description includes "huge ears" and "long tail." There's a reward for the animal too. 

As seen at the Sixth Street and Avenue B Community Garden. Thanks to Robert Miner for the photo.

Updated!

Turns out this is a Fennec fox ... and the fox was found safely and back with his/her owner...

[Updated] Bertie is missing after early morning fire on St. Marks Place

The FDNY responded to a major fire at 53 St. Mark's Place between First Avenue and Second Avenue early Saturday morning.

There weren't any reported injuries. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Author Ada Calhoun's parents, longtime residents here, were among those displaced by the fire on the upper floors. In the race to leave their home at 2 a.m., they were able to save one of their cats, Theo. However, Bertie, their other cat, got away in the chaos.

Ada thinks that it's likely Bertie is still on the block. "He's good at hiding but he's sure to get hungry and come out at some point," she told me in an email.

The flyer above has a photo of Bertie as well as contact information should you happen to find him.

Updated 10/29

Woot! Bertie turned up in a neighbor's closet downstairs today.

"Apparently, he had been hiding expertly in the building and living on toilet water and mice," Ada wrote in an email. "He is skinny, but otherwise healthy and in good spirits."

[UPDATED] Rusty Bell is missing

Updated: See below... Rusty Bell was found safe.

This past Saturday evening, Dumbo resident David Buccola was with his dog Rusty Bell on Second Avenue just north of Houston when a car struck him. In the aftermath of the collision, Buccola became separated from Rusty Bell.

Since then, a heartbroken Buccola hasn't seen the dog, a 12-pound female Chihuahua wearing an orange harness, collar and tags. A witness reported spotting her later that night running north on Avenue C near Third Street.

Buccola is offering a $1,000 reward — no questions asked — for her safe return. Details are on the flyer below.



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Three friends on 12th Street and Avenue A had found Rusty Bell ... and there was a happy reunion tonight...

Lucy remains missing

An East Village resident's apartment was burglarized late Saturday night. Upon his return home on Sunday afternoon, the person/people who did this left his window open... and both of his cats were gone. He found one in a courtyard... Lucy, pictured above, is still missing. (And she's not the same cat found the other night on Third Street and Avenue B.)

Lucy was last spotted in the schoolyard behind Fourth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue.

[Updated] Claribel is missing

East Village resident Ravi DeRossi was out of town for several days... and the person taking care of his pets accidentally let out one of his cats.

"Her name is Claribel. She's not the friendliest cat in the world, she scratches a bit but she means the world to me."

There is a $1,000 reward for her return. She was last seen on Seventh Street between Avenue A and First Avenue.

Here's a number to use for any info about Claribel: (917) 597-2692.

Updated 6:25 p.m
She has been found and is back home...

Chica, the trilingual parakeet, is missing

An EVG reader spotted this in a First Avenue building... (You can email us if you found Chica...)

[Updated] Vivian is missing

Help find Vivian! @evgrieve pic.twitter.com/sKHWqn3To1

— EdenBrower (@edenbrower) June 26, 2015

Flyer spotted on First Avenue at East Seventh Street... Here's the email if you have any info: helpusfindvivian@gmail.com

Updated 6-28
Vivian isn't missing. She is part of a "social experiment" on kindness.

[Updated] Cupid is missing

Last seen last night on East Third Street near Second Avenue...

H/T EVG reader Creature

Updated 6/28

A reader says that Cupid was found safe...

Updated 6/29

Here's a flyer with a new thank you note...


[Photo via Marjorie Ingall]

Sago is missing

Spotted on Second Avenue and East Sixth Street via @edenbrower

Big rewards for these lost pets

Spotted yesterday on East Second Street via @fnytc …



… and on the Bowery this morning… Lila has been missing since May 31 … there's also a Twitter account for her…

If anyone has any leads or information on Lila please call me at 917-868-8978 #findlila

— Lila Missing Cat (@LilaMissingCat) June 20, 2014

Bentley is missing

Several readers have pointed us to these signs around Tompkins Square Park today... details on the flyer...

Do Do is missing

EVG reader Seth shares this:

Anyone who's walked regularly down Broome between Eldridge and Forsyth probably knows "Do Do" — the temple cat at the Guan Gong Temple, 294 Broome. He's often sitting stoically with his quiet Buddha-nature by the door, observing passersby. Sadly, he's missing, and the temple congregants have put a few signs up around the neighborhood. Hopefully neighbors can keep an eye out around the neighborhood and park and if they see him (hopefully alive) grab him and bring him back to the temple. He's a bit of a neighborhood fixture.

Rex is missing

As several readers have noted, there seems to be a rash of missing-lost pet flyers of late... Here is another. A little background. The person who sent along the email said that a friend moved to another country, and needed to find a new home for his cats. An East Village resident took in Rex, but later apparently abandoned him somewhere in the neighborhood.

There is a permanent home for Rex now once he is found.

Lost your cat?

Spotted on East 10th Street between Second Avenue and Third Avenue...

Izzy is missing

Readers spotted these flyers go up in and around Tompkins Square Park this afternoon...

Someone stole this dog

Mona was stolen from West Fourth Street and Christopher... flyers up now in the East Village...

Photo by Bobby Williams.