Tuesday, June 2, 2009

DIMPLES IS SAFE

Yay! Dimples was caught in the enclosure trap today!

Monday, June 1, 2009

Dimples is on Facebook

Check out the new Facebook group for the Dimples search--tell your friends and family!

New approach--we're gonna get this girl!

Hi all!

Thanks for following Dimples' blog! Radar was just caught, and a bunch of us are straight off that success and ready to get to work to bring Dimples home. We're re-evaluating the area and the plan and we're confident that we can bring Dimples back to safety. It won't be tomorrow, and won't be this week--but we'll get her eventually!

Dimples has been seen several times EVERY SINGLE DAY since she escaped. She's not interested in traveling large distance (unlike our buddy Radar, who traveled 10 miles, or our buddy Midnight, who traveled about 25 miles). Instead, she's a lot like our friend Lee, who stayed almost entirely in the same general area. This seems to be what hounds like to do--in fact, our hound friends Tasha and Queenie behaved similarly and stayed in fairly small areas.

So--we're excited to get to work and bring this girl back to safety. But--we'll need your help. We'd love to get some assistance in monitoring traps. If you can help, please leave a comment here and let us know.

Thanks--stay tuned for pictures and updates, coming soon!

nocturnal volunteers needed

Are you up at 3 am and not able to sleep? We need volunteers to monitor an enclosure trap in order to prevent raccoons and cats from entering it and watching for Dimples. It is a pretty easy task but located on a dark street. I'm looking for volunteers who can monitor the trap from 8:30 -10:30, 10:30-12:30, and so on throughout the night. Because the trap is made of plastic, we are unable to leave it unmonitored. If you are a nightowl, then this is the volunteer activity for you. Please email for more info.

Sunday, May 31, 2009

new trap, same results

Ok, so we brought out a huge trap that wouldn't even look like one and she still wouldn't go into it. she only put her head in and then backed out. She started howling and barking due to immense hunger but even then, she couldn't give into the trap. She has immense staying power. We'll try again later today.

Saturday, May 30, 2009

new traps and approaches

Thanks to everyone who has helped out but please do start staying away until further notice. We are going to try a different trap tonight that is designed differently than the normal box trap that Dimples isn't liking. I do not want to start scaring her with too many people and hopefully with the quiet of the night air, she will decide tonight is the night that she wants to start sleeping under a roof again.

Keep up the search for Radar and other lost dogs. They need your help.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Dimples remains a yard dog

Dimples is still living in the outback. We are going to continue trying the trap (a much larger one) and also investigating the use of a snare trap as recommended by animal control. Feedings are now going to be limited to twice a day and she'll be given a normal size portion of dog food. Her days of fast food and rotisserie chickens are coming to an end and we hope to trap her within the next few days. I have placed signs up asking that no one feed Dimples. She currently has no incentive to give in with the amount of delicious food that she's been eating.

In addition, volunteers are visiting the site each night to ensure that she receives the food provided and not the many rats, cats, foxes and who knows what else. While we wait for the traps to work, please do consider looking for Radar in Burke. His search is going very slowly as he has not been sighted in over a week. http://findradar.blogspot.com