Sadie update

Sadly, this post is not as exciting as the title suggests. But I wanted to update nonetheless. We still haven’t found her. We are now putting up flyers with the words $500 Reward in big, bold letters. I’d turn a dog in for that, but then again, I’d turn a dog in for only the feeling I get when I do something good. That peacock feeling of making someone else happy.

I was going through old posts last night – I did find some odd comments left by Anonymous, I think it might be the equivalent of spam though – and found the one on teaching her to sit. Nothing like seeing her sitting on her little rug, looking up at the camera to re-break my heart.

But I am feeling hopeful. We’re looking into pet detectives although that might be pricey and a long shot. Anyone who has any suggestions please let me know.

One last thing. Whenever I watch Oprah or any other interview with someone who has lost a friend, family member, pet or anything else that means a lot, I’m struck by the way they almost uniformly talk about the support they received during their crisis. I never understood how or why they would bother giving those people a shout-out since, hello, personal tragedy, self-focus. But now I do. Maybe it seems dramatic to compare the loss of my dog to a greater sadness, like losing a child, but I’m not. I’m simply saying it’s a micro of a macro and now I get why they wanted to give a shout-out. This is mine, to all those who have helped, offered to help and offered comfort.