[Does so]

Giving up—as it got too dark to continue—I tripped myself up, and fell down with the bicycle on top of me. A little slow in getting up, the "lost" dog came out from bushes to give me a nuzzle. :-)

I didn't mention that I carefully held onto the dog's (new) collar to hold her from running away again.

Like Meagan, I think it's a big help to "get down to the dog's level", though I'm not advocating that a bicycle helps in such rescues. ;)

[MayflowerMadam]

“I think it’s a big help to ‘get down to the dog’s level’,”

In our rural area, a stray dog showed up on our lot. We could see he had a collar and tags but we couldn’t get close enough to check it because he’d run away. After a couple days we asked our neighbor if she could help. She came over to where he would hang out and she laid down flat on her back in the grass. About 15 minutes later the dog came over to her and licked her face. She was able to read the tags, call out the phone number to us, and we called the owner.

People hunt in our area, and the dog had separated from his “person”. When the owner showed up, they sure were happy to see each other!