Couple combs downtown Cleveland for lost pooch

CLEVELAND (AP) — Two people looking for a lost dog have plastered downtown Cleveland with hundreds of posters, are offering a $1,000 reward and have enlisted the homeless and Cleveland Browns tailgaters in the search.

Maverick, a 5-year-old Maltese/Shih Tzu mix, has been missing for a week, ever since Mike Frate says he left the dog out of his sight for less than a minute outside. Frate was dog-sitting for girlfriend Kelly Durkota while she was out of town on Sept. 30.

Durkota says she knows Frate feels “horrendous” about losing her dog and she says she doesn’t have time to be mad as the search continues.

The couple already has put up 800 handbills, and they’re preparing to print 800 more.