Tiburon neighbors rally to find lost dog, bring him home

Marinwood residents Dana Jasek and Zachary D’Agostino and Tiburon resident Mary Jasek, Dana’s mom, reunited with Apollo Aug. 6 following two days of searching after the dog broke from his leash and ran away while Mary Jasek was dog-sitting. (Francisco Martinez / The Ark)

Apollo, a French bulldog-pug mix, was on a leash outside Mary Jasek’s Old Tiburon home Aug. 4, basking in the sun while she cleaned inside, when something spooked him. He bolted, Jasek says, “with such great force that he broke away from the leash.”

Jasek, who was dog-sitting for her daughter and son-in-law, ran through Old Tiburon’s hilly streets, searching and calling for him. She posted on Nextdoor, asking neighbors to watch for the dog.

The community responded almost immediately, she says.

“I had three people just show up in their car, look at me and roll their windows down and just say, … ‘Are you Mary?’” Jasek recalls. “And they said they were looking.”

Businesses put up lost-dog flyers, mail carriers watched for him and Tiburon Peninsula residents joined the search, in person and by sharing Jasek’s post online.

One of Jasek’s neighbors found Apollo two days later, Aug. 6, in Old St. Hilary’s Open Space Preserve and reunited him with Jasek, her daughter Dana Jasek and son-in-law Zachary D’Agostino of Marinwood.

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