No Sightings for Two Days

So we haven't had any calls in the past two days.  Hard to formulate a focused plan to direct our efforts without any locations to check out.

But we did engage the Find Toto service, and have alerted Home Again, the service connected with her microchip.

Incidentally, several people have asked me whether Lucy has one of those lojack tracking chips in her.  So let me clear this up.  The microchip they embed in your dog's skin is just an RFID chip.  That is to say, it is not a GPS transceiver, it does not track your dog's whereabouts in any way.  It passively sits there, wating for someone to pass a scanner over it -- which is exactly what the shelters and vets should do when they pick up stray dogs -- at which point the chip gives the scanner whatever info is encoded on it.

In short:  the microchip inside your dog's skin will, when scanned at the shelter, tell the shelter the owner's information.

But something else that is very nice about most of the microchip providers is that, like Home Again, they offer a lost pet alert service.  In our case, Home Again contacts all the vets, shelters, and rescue volunteers in their database, within 25 miles of the location where you lost your pet.

Also, today, we made some business cards on the Staples website.  These should be much more useful to hand out to people than the strips of paper with our phone numbers that we had been using.

At this point, with no recent sightings (and honestly, being none too sure about the Monday sighting), I'm wondering if Lucy has wandered completely out of the District.  We've started contacting shelters outside D.C., in Maryland and Virginia, but there's a ton of ground to cover out there.  And for all we know, she's still only 10 blocks over, hiding in an alley.

I just hope she's got some shelter from the rain and wind tonight.