Footage shows the moment a missing dog was finally rescued - after she caused eight temporary motorway closures in 11 days.<br /><br />Nicola Patterson, 33, received a call while on a trip to Majorca with her husband and two young children to say that her beloved dog Phoebe had gone missing.<br /><br />The Welsh Springer Spaniel was being looked after by a friend in Bean, near Dartford, when she knocked the latch on the back gate and escaped from their garden.<br /><br />After getting the dreaded news, owner Nicola immediately booked a flight for her and her seven-month-old baby.<br /><br />She said: “I flew home – I didn’t sleep all of Tuesday night and on Wednesday I got a really late-night flight home for me and my baby.<br /><br />“I got back to Stansted at around 2am on Thursday morning and managed to get home at 3am but I was out looking by 5am.”<br /><br />Meanwhile, Nicola's brother and his flat mate made it their mission to find Phoebe, sharing her pictures on social media to spread the word.<br /><br />The Lost Dog Phoebe Facebook group would grow to more than 1,000 members in just two weeks following her initial disappearance on Tuesday, August 27.<br /><br />Although there were sightings across Kent, it appeared Phoebe had crossed over the A2 on a footbridge and upon reaching some industrial units, panicked and ran away.<br /><br />Nicola said: “Every time there had been a sighting they [her brother and friend] got there just after she’d gone.<br /><br />“We didn’t really know where to start looking because we had people calling in saying ‘I think I’ve seen your dog’ and wherever it was, we would go.”<br /><br />After hearing from National Highways about a report of a spaniel on the side of the A2, the road was temporarily closed for a check, but Phoebe was nowhere to be seen.<br /><br />Throughout the search there was a team of around 15 people putting up posters.
