Dog Lena is missing, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos frantically search: “where are you!”

“We go next door, no Lena,” Ripa said about what happened next.

“And now the wind is picking up,” Consuelos noted, adding that, at this point, he was screaming Lena’s name into the wind in hopes of finding the dog.

According to Ripa, while her husband called for the dog, she spotted a palm frond in the middle of the road. Without her glasses on, she worried it was Lena lying in the road after getting hit by a car.

“Now tears are streaming down my face, and I’m running because there’s my dog, and she’s been hit by a car,” Ripa recalled. Thankfully, once Ripa got closer to the palm frond in the road, she realized it wasn’t her dog.

She and Consuelos, still worried Lena had disappeared or was nabbed by one of Palm Springs’ plentiful coyotes, kept frantically searching. Luckily, the mystery was soon solved, and it turns out that Lena never left the house.

After coming inside from her bathroom break, Lena curled up in her travel carrier, a spot her pet parents forgot to check in their panic.

Ripa described the brief missing pet incident as “10 minutes of hell.” She and Consuelos are happy their beloved pooch was never in harm’s way, especially since they think Lena has no survival skills.

“She’s got no survival skills. She would walk up to a lion and be like, ‘You’re a big dog.’ She doesn’t know how to be afraid of anything,” Ripa added.

The couple is still hurting from losing their senior dog, Chewie. The pet parents announced the 17-year-old dog’s death on their show on Feb. 5, after sharing details about her deteriorating health earlier in the year.

“It takes a pet owner to understand this kind of loss. It’s grief. It really is grief,” Consuelos said at the time.