I understand it now

I've been blogging about how I couldn't understand how someone could lose their precious dog and not find it. I understand now. My other basenji, Iggy, got loose from my daughter's house. He's not wearing his collar. She let down her guard for just a second and in that split second, he was out the dog door and under her back fence. He's been with her at Camp Condo, as we call it, getting extra exercise while she was on spring break. He was getting a little chubby as he helped me put weight on Roxy!

We've searched and searched. It's been over 18 hours. Only one sighting. He's in a very populated area with lots of condos, townhomes and homes. Lots of fields and ditches and woods. It's like he vanished.

We've plastered the area with posters, run an ad in the paper, posted on craigslist, talked to people like pizza delivery men and the postman. And driven and biked the area over and over and over.

I'm on my way now to talk to joggers. It's spring break so a lot of the area is deserted (college area) for another four or five days. It was suppposed to be 35 degrees last night. I am beside myself with worry. Didn't sleep; kept thinking about him all alone outside thinking no one cared enough to find him.

My fears: he'll get hit by a car on one of the busy streets; someone will find him and keep him since he has no collar; someone will find him and think, how could someone lose this dog and not do anything to find him.

I understand it now. It happens in a split second and despite your best efforts, you can't find your precious baby dog. I will NEVER give up looking.