4 Months and Counting

If time flies when you're having fun, that should explain why the last four months have dragged on interminably. This search for Izzie has not been fun. But there's never been any question that the end will justify the means, when Izzie has been found.

Calls do still come in, from all the past efforts to spread the word, daily since August 1st. Not all of them get a mention here. But here's one to tell about.

Got a call today from some who thought he found Izzie. Unfortunately the dog is a male about 25-30 pounds, wearing a green collar with no tags. The dog has been hanging around the caller's farm for the last 3 days. This is in the Newport area, which is where the last sightings of Izzie were, at the very end of October.

It makes us very uneasy to think about the possibility that this dog -- who the caller has taken in as he's trying to find its owner -- may have accounted for the October sightings of Izzie in Newport. What if Izzie was never in Newport at all? And if she wasn't, then that means that the most recent sightings are even older than those Newport sightings . . .  which are themselves pretty old. This is pretty scary.

So if Izzie hasn't been seen out & about since October 30th or longer, it brings back up the age old question -- does someone have her in their home? If so, where is their home that our efforts haven't reached them yet? What are we missing that we need to be doing to make sure everyone out there knows what number to call if they've seen her? We want her back, no questions asked.

Then again, it also brings up the other age old question -- can she have survived on her own, for four long months, even though she'd been living in a home and being provided with everything she needed, from birth?

There are too many stories floating around of dogs that have survived ten times as long as that on their own, so we know there's no point in deciding that she turned to fairy dust and blew away. Coyotes? Forget about it, we're not going there. She's somewhere. She's trying to make her way home, and can't figure it out. That's why we won't stop looking until she's found.