Kelsy's search for Sugar

Sugar is a Labradoodle puppy, seven months old and twenty-five pounds at the time of her escape on December 21st.  She ran off in a panic when the car she was in rear ended another car.  Sugar's owner called MPP on the 22nd, and Kelsy started searching on the morning of the 23rd.

 Temp: 47°F
Feels like: 44°F
Mostly Cloudy
Humidity: 73%
Wind: SW 5 mph

Kelsy started a little before noon at the accident site and seemed to have a good scent.  At the intersection east of the accident, Kelsy meandered east and south before picking a route north.  We hit private property where the owner had posted a copy of the constitution with a statement that he had the right to protect his property with guns.  We did not proceed there until Bonnie got permission from the homeowner.  When we got to the back fence line, Kelsy seemed determined that the trail went under a fence to a neighboring property.  We had to go all the way out and around to the other side of that block to start again on the other side of the fence, with permission.  From the other side, the trail was less certain.  Kelsy followed it around and back to the original accident scene.  From that point, she couldn't really establish a direction of travel, and I called off the search pending a new sighting.  The next sighting was about a mile north, but without a specific location.  The day after we searched, the owners got a call that Sugar had been placed inside a fenced yard a quarter mile east of the crash site.  The homeowners did not know if the finders found Sugar at that location or somewhere else.

My interpretation is that Sugar circled around back to the scene of the crime at least once and maybe multiple times.  We received no independent confirmation that Kelsy was on the correct trail.  We did find feces along the trail that was the right age and consistent with Sugar, indicating we were probably on the right trail.

Name:		Track 100
Date:		Dec 23, 2011 11:34 am
Map: (valid until Jul 15, 2012)		View on Map
Distance:		3.73 miles
Elapsed Time:		1:55:57
Avg Speed:		1.9 mph
Max Speed:		27.1 mph
Avg Pace:		31' 07" per mile
Min Altitude:		397 ft
Max Altitude:		549 ft
Start Time:		2011-12-23T19:34:45Z
Start Location:
	Latitude:	47.386979º N
	Longitude:	122.075711º W
End Location:
	Latitude:	47.387036º N
	Longitude:	122.077267º W