Video: Luna The Lost Puppy Is Reunited With Her Owners

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — The moment Luna the lost puppy was reunited with her owners, in the abandoned lot where she'd spent a week hiding, was captured on video.

"It’s okay, good girl,” says Julia Romano as she approaches Luna, who is curled up in a ball. The pup starts thumping her tail. “We gotcha bubs.”

Luna became a neighborhood celebrity when Romano, 29, and her boyfriend Nathan Maggio, 30, plastered fliers across Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick and “slammed” social media networks with calls for help.

The couple lost Luna while she was out on walk with Maggio on April 1, Romano said. The young rescue dog was scared by shouting on the street and fled.

After 10 days of roaming the streets and scouring social media, Romano received a call from an employee at a waste management facility in Bushwick who said he had found her dog.

The man had spotted a scared and dusty Luna, still clad in her red jacket, curled up in the corner of an empty lot near the intersection of Varick Street and Flushing Avenue a week earlier, he told Romano. He hadn’t called the ASPCA because he was afraid they would put her down.

For a week he brought Luna food and water every day, he told Romano.

When the man finally turned to Facebook to find the pup's owner, another Brooklyn local sent him a picture of Romano’s flier, Romano said.

Maggio and Romano jumped in a car when they got the call and, as they were driving down Broadway, the man texted Romano a picture of Luna in her corner. Romano said that was the moment she believed she would get her dog back.

“I just started screaming and hollering, and a person on the street hollered back, and I started screaming back in excitement,” laughed Romano. “It was all so surreal.”

Romano and Maggio found Luna thinner, dustier, and weaker, but otherwise the same good-natured puppy they lost ten days earlier. Luna had scrapes on her paws from running more than 2.5 miles on concrete, but otherwise suffered no serious injuries, Romano said.

Romano and Maggio thanked the man that saved their dog with a basket of cookies and a donation to Autism Speaks, a charity the man supports on Facebook, Romano said. She often chats with him on social media and they send each other pictures of their dogs.

While Romano admits losing Luna had its ordeal-like moments, she’s also grateful to all the people in Bedford Stuyvesant and Bushwick who went to great lengths to help bring Luna home.

“It’s like a new community that I’m now a part of,” said Romano. “I’m way more aware of how to get lost animals found.”