SOPHIE HAS RETURNED! After early Wednesday morning when Sophie visited our “Sophie Station” near our front door and ate and drank, we left the doors open all day. Just as the first rumblings of thunder began, we heard the jingling of Sophie’s collar approaching, and she strode in and made straight for Diahann, squealing happily. She is safe, her belly is full, and she beat the rain by about an hour and a half.

Diahann and I (Michael) are deeply humbled and grateful for the outpouring of support we received from the Paako community and even beyond. From our immediate neighbors to people who lived far away and who we did not even know before, your kindness and generosity with your time to go looking for her, send encouraging words to us, help me put up signs and otherwise spread the word, help us search with a drone, check your cameras and alert us immediately about sightings—all of this made it easier for us to walk through the pain of losing Sophie and the worry about her welfare. You all kept us going—thank you from the bottoms of our hearts.

I also have to mention CMM Lost Pet and Humane Trapping; both Diahann and I feel like once we began following their advice to the letter, things started to fall into place.