mumbai a very popular male dog called bagheera who went missing from shivaji park in dadar in december last year has been finally traced to a remote area near nashik as the worried local animal lovers themselves became detectives to find their beloved bagheeratalking to toi the dadar resident and animal feeder ruchi singhi said bagheera had gone missing from shivaji park on december 6 and since then all the animal lovers here were very tense and wondered where our chocolate brown coloured bagheera could have gone so some of us decided to fully investigate this casebesides singhi neeta pednekar pao chin priya ghadi and family dhanashree m and many more localities had pooled in their resources to publish missing posters flyers sent messages on social networking sites and had even contacted animal communicators in order to find bagheera who was eventually traced to sangamner in ahmednagar district on february 24a few dadar residents had given us the first clue that they had seen bagheera being taken for a scooty ride by some visitors at shivaji park on december 6 since he is a friendly dog bagheera sometimes hops on in twowheelers two days later we got another lead that bagheera was kept at a house in andheri east said singhion reaching andheri the animal lovers were dejected to know that bagheera had escaped from that house and was later spotted at different areas by hawkers at station road sakinaka and eventually at asalfa in ghatkopar west in the next few weeksthe person at asalfa whom i do not want to name informed us that bagheera was taken to a farm in sangamner where he is happily staying now however we know that bagheera was only happy and comfy at the shivaji park area where he was actually abandoned as a mixbreed pet a few years ago since then shivaji park is his home elaborated singhishe added that a team of animal lovers from dadar eventually landed at the sangamner address on february 24 and the reunification with bagheera was an emotional one bagheera started crying like a baby on recognizing his old human friends from shivaji park he jumped with joy and licked their hands we then explained the situation to the sangamner farm owner and drove back with our baby to dadar it was a huge relief for all of us said singhimany animal activists including roxanne davur of probably paradise group and vijay mohanani of bombay animal rights bar have appreciated the nevergiveup stand of the dadar animal lovers to find the missing dogthis is an incredible story of how love for a dog made the feeders go all the way to sangamner to find bagheera who is named after the celebrated jungle book character someone may have taken away bagheera who is rather goodlooking however it is wrong to dislocate a local dog like this without informing his feeders said mohanani