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!