Update & Status Thursday Morning

So far this morning we have only this update from Donna:  I spoke this morning with Todd Brown who is the operations manager at the Hidden Oaks Nature Center. He is calling the staff now (via cell phones) to see if anyone knows anything about what happened to Griffy yesterday. He will call me back once he's talked to all of the staff members that worked there yesterday.

Waiting!

10:50am update from Donna:

Okay - this is what we know so far. None of the staff (which we think is only 2-3 people) know anything about Griffy. They didn't see him yesterday much less catch him. The nature center did have a class though that was open to the public between 4-5pm last night. We are waiting to talk to the manager (who is available at 1pm today) to see if we can get the list (phone numbers and email addresses) of the folks who attended the class. I can't imagine it's a long list - likely only 5-6 people.

In the meantime, I think we need to proceed with the assumption that Griffy is still alive, well and traveling in the area between Little River Turnpike/Hummer Road/Gallows Road and the beltway. This is the area in which the track ran last night AND the same location (Fenton Road) that the mailman told me he saw Griffy last week between the two snow storms. This area has not been well fliered (except for the ones Nadene and Terri posted last night) nor has it been canvassed.

Gail is out there now and I have asked her to spend the next few hours driving/walking the track and talking to anyone she sees. I think if we concentrate on this location, as well as follow up with the people who left the nature center around 5pm and could have potentially picked up Griffy on their way out, we'll have our bases covered. I am going to post to CL right now with some of this info to try to spur more info from people who may have been in the area.

Does anyone have availability tonight, tomorrow or tomorrow night to flier and/or canvass ? I will also be calling Sam this morning to fill her in and ask for her advice as to feeding station location in light of the fact that Griffy hasn't yet been linked to someone at the nature center.

Update as of 3:30: The people at the Nature Center are reaching out to the people that were in the class from 4 to 4:55pm yesterday, which is four families, by email or phone or whatever way they can be reached, and we are awaiting word on that. Then we also found out that there was another college class that was held at the center from 5pm to 8pm last night, and the instructor is being contacted to see what he or she can do to contact all of the students in that class. So right now, there are around a couple of dozen people that could potentially have information about Griffy being at the Hidden Oaks Nature Center prior to when Sam & Salsa tracked Griffy's scent there, which was I think around 8:30pm last night.

Meanwhile, Gail has been out hitting the pavement today, and she has talked to and given business cards to a ton of people moving throughout the area. We are still trying to get more people to go out this evening and do more of the same.