Yes, there is all that open land and few places to hide, but in all fairness, it is just a dog. No resources would have been spent to search for it, and no one would be expected -- or even allowed -- to go out of their way to look for it. At best, a memo would be sent out to the staff 'If you happen to see a dog' yadda yadda yadda.
If the dog was on a run-way, it would likely get reported by ATC. At that point, they would have to consider how much traffic is in the air and how many landings/departures they have to make in the next 15 minutes. If there's just one plane waiting to come in or one plane waiting to depart, odds are they would have them wait (unless the arriving plane was low on fuel) until the Dog was removed from the runway.
Otherwise, the dog then becomes expendable.
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