17 Days and Counting

So today (almost over now) was Day 17 of the Missing Lucy Saga.  I keep thinking that I don't know how to keep up this level of effort until we find Lucy.  Every other aspect of our lives has had to take a back seat, and some things are suffering for it.

Example:  we haven't gone grocery shopping since this began.  I found the remnant of a Boston lettuce in the fridge tonight that had grown its own fur coat.

And then I realized that after tomorrow, we will have only endured for exactly half as long as Ravi did in his search for Rocky.  The only response I have in me tonight is two words:  Wow.  Dude.

On the good news front though, we've had a mad rush of help from some incredibly giving folks this week.  It still feels a little bit like a blur, but in the last 24 or 36 hours we've got two traps set up (and a rotation of people helping us monitor them), a flier party in the making, and some other behind-the-scenes things that would have taken us much longer to do on our own, if we had managed to do them at all.

Sarah and I give our heartfelt thanks to the whole bunch of you.

So yes, be vewy vewy quiet, it's Lucy season.  Not just one trap, but two now lurk, waiting to spring shut on a certain ninja dog.  (I can't stop having the rather comic mental image of her prancing past the open traps, oblivious to the goodies inside, though.)  However, it has now been over 72 hours since our last sighting, so I'm concerned with the potential irony of having gotten traps set up where Lucy seemed to be spending a lot of time, only to discover that she has migrated again.  We'll see.  But that's the point of tomorrow's flyering blitz.

Which brings me back to that.  As seen in the previous post, we're organizing a Flier Fun Day in order to have almost as much fun as one can have with packing tape and the smell of colored ink.  The hope is that we post fliers in neighborhoods that Lucy might wander into, so that people are already aware she's missing when they see her.

The most common reason that the owner of a lost dog will go several days without sightings is that the dog moved on into an area without any fliers.  So, we hang fliers.  And then hopefully the phone calls start rolling in . . .