At first police thought she was a dog on the loose, but then realized the pit bull was on a mission to get help.

On Wednesday around 3:30 p.m. Sadie – a 60-pound pit bull – was found wandering the streets of Tuckahoe barking up a storm.

"We got a call of a loose pit bull," Lawrence Rotta of the Tuckahoe Police Department said.

Police tried to catch her but Sadie bolted back to her home on Fairview Avenue with cops in hot pursuit. When they got there they said they noticed the sliding door in the backyard was open.

"When they went to investigate they noticed an odor of gas emanating from the doorway," Rotta told CBS2's Scott Rapoport.

It turns out there was an actual gas leak in the home. Police believe Sadie ran from the house to get away from it and then led officers back to help.

"What do you think she was doing?" Rapoport asked Sadie's owner.

"I don't know. I want to say bringing them here. What else could it be," Serena Costello said.