Recap of Friday

Big day yesterday!

It started with a lead in Vienna that, for a time, seemed very credible. It would explain the lack of sightings, and the location was a couple of blocks off the W&OD. So it was no stretch to figure it could be Ekko . . . but after enough canvassing of the neighbors by volunteers that responded, we had to write it off. Recounts of the dog that neighbors had been seeing in their neighborhood seemed to change until the lead just dried up.

The we got the call that put Ekko right back in his own neighborhood just moments before the call. Volunteers on hand that responded to that call by going to the and canvassing passersby led to another sighting by one of numerous mail carriers that put him practically at his home the day before, Thursday. Both sightings were in the afternoon, so we are discarding the thought that he's hunkered down during the day and only coming out at night.

Ekko's family has been putting food out in front of their house at night, and sure enough, it had been eaten overnight, by Friday morning, so that's given us hope that it was Ekko.

We secured a large humane trap -- thanks for the offers we got, and we'll remember them in the future! -- from Sam and she delivered it late Friday evening to Ekko's home. When I left the house last night, it was all set up, baited, and our motion sensored camera trained on it. If the camera shows Ekko approaching but not entering the trap, we come up with plan B.

But for now, we give the trap a chance to do its work. We're all hoping for a good word -- something simple like that the family looked out the window and saw Ekko resting in the trap, and then wagged his tail when they walked up to it. But if he wasn't trapped overnight, no worries. We know it can -- and typically does -- take longer for a humane trap's work to be done.

So check back here and see what happens.