Olivia is Still in the Area

Our professional tracker, Sam from PureGold Pet Trackers (http://www.puregoldpettrackers.com/), has confirmed Olivia's scent is still in the area.

We are begging and pleading for your help to bring her home! If you see her, please contact us at 240.723.6893 or 617.947.5627.

A Forever Home is offering a reward for her safe return, and covering expenses for her search. Please consider a tax-deductible donation on the Chip-In Fund.


Olivia Search Team

Olivia is Still Missing

We sent our tracker out during the week and confirmed Olivia's scent is still in the area. Please, please, please, if you see her, please contact us!

We are offering a reward for her safe return.


Thank you!
Olivia Search Team

Olivia Still Missing

Our search team went out this weekend and checked all around the area for signs of Olivia. She's likely hiding out somewhere to get out of the cold, so we expanded the area where we posted flyers.

If you think you've seen a dog that might be Olivia, please let us know! The more sighting calls we get, the better chance of finding Olivia and bringing her home!

We are offering a reward for her safe return.


Thank you!
Olivia Search Team

Olivia is Still Missing--We Need Your Help

For those helping with the flyer event this weekend, make sure to dress warmly. If possible, please bring a roll of packing tape, slip lead, and smelly treats. If by chance we see Olivia, we can entice her to approach with the smelly food.

Our outreach has been successful! Check out the FOX news story on Olivia at:
http://www.myfoxd.com/dpp/news/dc/help-needed-in-finding-missing-english-mastiff-dog-named-olivia-120110/

There was even an article in the Examiner at http://exm.nr/i6xq6.

For the person who posted on our blog whether the Craigslist posting of a female Brindle was Olivia, thank you for letting us know. Unfortunately, it is not Olivia.

If you can help out this Sunday, please make sure to contact Debbie!


Olivia Search Team

HELP FIND OLIVIA--MISSING MASTIFF

PLEASE HELP BRING OLIVIA HOME!!!
It's been over a month since Olivia went missing. She's cold, tired, hungry and we would love to bring her home!
We need your help! We have a major volunteer effort this weekend to distribute and post flyers. Volunteers will work in team to canvas the neighborhood, talk to locals, distribute flyers and business cards, in order for us to generate sightings. If you can help, please contact Debbie.

WHEN: Sunday, December 19

TIME: 12:00pm - 2:00pm (approximate end time)

LOCATION: Parking lot near Ft. McNair and Coast Guard (2nd & V, SW)

CONTACT: Debbie (703.967.7463)

EVERYONE IS WELCOME! BRING YOUR FRIENDS, TELL OTHERS, THE MORE HELP WE HAVE, THE LARGER AREA WE CAN COVER!!

Thanks to the Examiner for helping spread the word about this weekend's event:
http://www.examiner.com/pet-rescue-in-washington-dc/search-party-to-find-olivia-on-sunday-november-19th

Thank you!

Olivia Search Team

I Street Sighting

Did anyone speak to a man who said he saw Olivia on Wednesday or Thursday around noon at a park on I street? One of the volunteers gave him a business card today and he said he had seen her and called (and he knew her pre-rescue name, "Chopper"). He also said she was not injured ("fine") and still had her harness and collar on. The strange thing is that I did not get that call, nor did the volunteer whose number is listed on my voicemail message. Still, it is more good news! This is consistent with her new routine (it is right along the track), and it is now our our most recent sighting!

(If you did speak to him, could you please let me know? Thanks.)

Oh and here is a map overlaying all of the tracks run so far by Sam & Salsa of Pure Gold Pet Trackers:

Click the map for a larger view

Two (Good) New Developments

My last post tried to recruit people to go along on Monday's track. Though I was still out of town at the time, the track went really well: Salsa (the tracking dog) followed Olivia's scent for 4 miles and found her water source! As is apparently her habit, Olivia chose a restricted area as it's on the waterfront on Coast Guard property. (She doesn't have approval, but that doesn't bother her one bit. It's actually the third military site she's chosen: first Navy Yard, then Ft. McNair, now this.) Thanks to one volunteer's connection there, we got approval to put up a feeding station there and check it regularly.

There's also an even more recent development: Thursday afternoon, another volunteer was handing out business cards at the Waterfront Metro stop and she found a woman who saw Olivia on Tuesday night between 8 and 9 across from the CVS at 4th and I Streets. The woman did not approach Livvie because, surprise, surprise, she thought she was a pit bull. (Of course, for me that would be a reason to approach the dog, but not everyone shares my love of pitties.) Anyway, it was clearly Olivia because the woman noticed her nipples, which are still evident from her recent pregnancy. She said she was just wandering, which amuses me. Here we are looking for her frantically at all hours and we see nothing, but other people who don't care see her just aimlessly going along, apparently not trying to hide. So it goes.

I will put up a feeding station there today, but now there are several, so I need help checking them, ideally twice a day. Please let me know if you can help. Also, I still really need people to help put up flyers. Olivia covered a lot of ground, much of which we had not flyered before, and very few flyers are still up even in the areas we did flyer. Handing out business cards is obviously effective, as it got us this most recent sighting. Maybe we will be able to track again based on this most recent sighting. In the meantime, please let me know if you can help in any way, whether it's printing flyers or business cards, putting them up, checking a feeding station or a shelter, or helping me keep up with calls and emails to make sure people stay aware of her situation and watch out for her.

Thank you very much!