She’s looking for her best bud.
A Manhattan woman desperately searching for her lost dog plastered the Shar Pei’s picture on weed baggies — but she accidentally sparked burnt-out bums to unleash a series of prank calls.
Garbiella Fussner estimated she’s received 50 hoax calls since the ‘za bags hit the market last week, most of which involved doggone weirdos barking at her on the other side of the line.
“I’m already down, I don’t understand what you’re getting at,” the grieving dog owner told The Post.
The marijuana baggies branded with Appa’s face rolled out over the weekend — one week after the 5-year-old pooch broke out of Fussner’s boyfriend’s backyard in Corona.
A next-door neighbor suddenly blasted off a series of fireworks, sending the terrified dog sprinting through a hole in the fence.
It’s not the first time Appa had escaped, but that time the beloved pooch stayed in the general area and Fussner was able to track him down within just 30 minutes.
“I am worried someone might have picked him up because a few people have told me that around Corona, there’s a thing where people steal dogs,” said Fussner, 27, a ceramicist who lives in the Financial District.
The pup’s face made its way onto the drug bags at the behest of Fussner’s boyfriend, who asked his friend to blast the lost dog poster to his nearly 13,000 social media followers.
The artist, who asked to go by his moniker Yo Chill, opted to get creative.
“I just like to do things my own way, basically. I figured that if I printed it out and did something, it would be it would reach a bigger audience than if I were to just post it on my page … It’s f–ked up to think about him missing in the snow like that,” said Yo Chill, who went viral this fall for his T-shirt designs bearing the date on which he wore them.
Yo Chill denied that the bags contained any illegal items or that he sold any narcotics, saying the bags were simply a “publicity stunt” to bring home Appa home.
“That is 100% the implication. However, there is no video of me opening the bag to let you know what is inside it. And that’s the Constitution, where they say you can’t really search any private belongings without a warrant. So technically, it’s up to the viewer’s imagination,” explained Yo Chill, who, when asked if he was a designer, said: “I would never describe myself… but I make s–t.”
Fussner was initially shocked at Yo Chill’s approach, but ultimately welcomed it as a means of getting more eyes on her missing dog, even though it came with handfuls of crank callers.
“They say, ‘Oh, hey, I think I found your dog … can you say your dog’s name just so I can confirm it’s your dog’ and I’ll be like, ‘Appa!’ And then they’ll say they’ll like start barking. They’ll be like, ‘Woof, woof, woof woof!’” said Fussner.
“That’s been super frustrating and exhausting. But honestly, at this point, I just want as many people to see what he looks like in the area. I’m up for anything.”
Fussner has consulted two dog psychics to try and narrow down where her beloved pet has gone, with one theorizing he was hunkering down in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
Appa — named after the flying bison in the “Avatar: Legends of the Airbender” — means the world to Fussner, who credited the pooch with helping her through her mom’s death and a relationship breakup.
“He has been my main source of family,” she explained.
“He’s just what I feel is closest to now. It’s hard … He’s been around and been through a lot and has seen me go through so much and was there with me through so much.”
