An Alaskan husky was found safe Thursday -- 12 days after his owner died in a rollover accident on Interstate 84 near Snowville.

Medical personnel, responding to an April 4 accident, found Joyce Moore's body 50 feet from her rolled vehicle. She had rolled her car en route to Michigan to visit her son.

Her dog, Neo, was sitting by the wreckage of her car "like he was waiting for his owner to come back," said Utah Highway Patrol Lt. Lee Perry.

Crews tried to rush Moore to the hospital while one of the emergency responders offered to pick up the husky. As the worker approached Neo, clapping and calling, the dog got spooked and ran across the freeway, narrowly missing oncoming traffic.

UHP tried to follow the path Neo had taken up toward a mountainside and began spreading word in the Snowville area that the dog was missing, Perry said.

Over the next 12 days, several area people spotted Neo wandering through the area.

One reported seeing the dog on a leash that was caught in a fence. But, assuming the dog was stuck and trying to get home, that person cut the leash and let Neo run off.

Another person spotted Neo on the Idaho side of the border, and Perry said his office assumed the dog was heading back home to Kelso, Wash., where its owner was from.

Neo wasn't seen for more than a week, when a caller on April 14 said they spotted Neo about 10 miles west of Snowville and followed him through some barns and fields.

A group of searchers came from as far as Layton and Ogden to help find the husky. After two hours of searching, Parry Nielsen of Ogden came across a farm worker who waved him down and said he had trapped the dog in a shed.

The search group went back and found Neo inside, growling and apparently frightened. UHP troopers verified it was the missing dog and let the group drive him up to an animal rescue in Hailey, Idaho, where he will rendezvous with Moore's sister.

The dog will eventually be taken to Michigan to stay with Moore's son.

"There were a lot of people that were out there trying to make a really bad situation better," Perry said, adding that people were putting food out by their houses to make sure Neo had something to eat if he came by.

"I would have never guessed a dog would survive 12 days on its own without something terrible happening," Perry said. "It seems like an awful long time to be out on your own, but obviously this kind of dog is very resourceful."