Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Wednesday Afternoon

Lisa spent some time searching from about 4pm-ish until dark, and again found the hot dog pieces missing from the Hope/Baish and drainage culvert feeding stations.  (This could be a good sign)  She replaced them with mini hot dogs.

Again Sue reported: "Four of us went out again Wednesday between 4 and 6. Looked all throughout fields at the very end of Hope Pkwy, along pathways, through tall brush, looked in all man-made objects and under trees and bushes, and in and around the fenced area with the red construction vehicles that you can see from the end of Hope ... but no sign of Toby. We left food along the wood fence at the end of Hope at 6:20 pm Wednesday (along each fence post: chicken, noodles, fish sticks). Please send status if it's been eaten tomorrow morning."

Sue I will be out again in the morning and check at the end of the fence.

Wednesday Morning Efforts

I got out to the feeding stations at first light and removed the frozen cat food and dried out hot dog pieces from the Hope/Baish feeding station and just the cat food and a few dried out pieces of hot dog from the culvert (things seem to keep a little better down there. I place hot dog and Beggin' Strip pieces and both sites and kept the dog biscuits from Victor at the upper (Hope/Baish) site.

I handed out flyers and spoke to parents and kids at some bus stops and I came across them. Most were surprised to hear he was STILL missing but said they had seen/still had the flyer. I gave them updated ones with this site and asked them to keep looking. I drove the SFHs and we walked the treeline along Rt7 from the fields by the condos down to Sycolin Rd and through the adjoining Condo and townhouses.

When we returned to my truck, which was parked near the feeding stations ALL the food (hot dog, Beggin' Strip, and biscuits) were gone from the upper (Hope/Baish) sta and the Beggin Strips from the lower (drainage culvert) sta. Since I only had hot dogs I replaced them at both.

On the way home I stopped at the shelter to check and today they told me only owners are allowed to view lost/stray dogs so unless someone else also has a lost dog (I certainly hope not - one is too many) we can no longer help Michele with this task. Hopefully it was Toby who was eating at the feeding station and we will find him soon making shelter visits unnecessary.

Thanks to everyone who keeping a eye out for little Toby and keeping passing the word that he still needs help finding his way home.