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I told anyone that would listen that I was going to compete in the Iditarod some day. Which was met with a lot of blank stares and the occasional laugh because I lived in Southern California, and most people had never even heard of the Iditarod.
Shelby: From the first time I saw a picture of Holly I knew I wanted her. She just like was staring into the camera with these just beautiful eyes and I thought, oh my gosh, you can see this dog's soul. Like she's perfect.
Sarah: Before the adoption, they brought Sully to meet Holly. Holly was small for a lab, only about 35 pounds, and her scraggly fur was the kind of pitch black that is hard to photograph because it just shows up as a dark void in the picture. It matched her personality, though. Holly moved like a shadow: skittish and sticking to walls, corners, or the floor. Hiding underneath furniture whenever she could manage. She was clearly smart but constantly on high alert.
Sarah: On Thursday afternoon they packed up the dogs and made the 5 hour drive to Wardensville, West Virginia. They normally liked to set up camp and get a lay of the land before sunset. But this time, as they parked and built a campfire, all they knew was that their campsite had been pretty deep in the woods along a gravel road.
The next morning they leashed up the dogs and took them out for a long hike on the spiderweb of trails around the campsite. They were in a big valley and it was peak foliage season. The forest seemed to go on forever. There was even a hunting lodge nearby.
And then you hear this gunshot off in the distance and like a crack, like Holly ripped her leash out of my hand and was just gone, like took off running faster than I've ever seen a dog run in my life.
Number one, we lost her. Number two, we did everything wrong and chased her off. Number three, we don't even know, like, where she's gonna go, and we've never been here before, like, I don't know what's over that ridge. It could be a highway, for all I know, or it could just be a thousand miles of forest.
Scott: I guess that might just be my brain kind of trying to forget that piece of it. But I do remember that once she got away from us, she just was like fully running like she didn't look back or anything like that.
Shelby: Immediately it felt just like, oh, I was dumb. I cannot believe I felt so confident that, like, oh, we'll take her out of the city, we'll go camping, it's gonna be great for her, you know. And then in that moment that I watched her run away over that ridge I was like, oh no I'm, never getting this dog back.
Shelby: It was just you had that one percent of people who were like, she's dead You'll never see her again. She's run back to tennessee. Oh a hunter will shoot her if he sees her and I was just like all of that was definitely like just this terrible nagging feeling
Sarah: The woods are a dangerous place for a sweet, friendly black lab. Would she starve out there? Or be eaten by coyotes? Or would her leash catch and trap her, or a hunter mistake her for a black bear? The possibilities haunted Shelby.
Sarah: They went out to where they had last seen Holly and tried to find some good spots for the cameras. They followed the guidelines as best they could, but to some extent they also just had to trust their gut and go on instincts. It was a huge rat's nest of trails and a lot of forest.
Scott: I think it was like the chance of us putting a camera both like vertically and horizontally aimed so that it would like catch a dog in this like giant wilderness we're in was a little bit like insane to me, honestly. And so I was like, the chance of us catching her on this camera must be very small.
Bob: My name is Bob Swenson. I'm a local trapper and tracker in Baltimore, but I go all over. They were just so caring about Holly and they just, they would do anything to get her home. You could just, you could tell by talking to them.
Sarah: Together with their newly formed Holly-tracking SWAT team they set up a game plan. Their first objective was to figure out where Holly was. And they were told first and foremost to stop going out into the woods and calling her name. This would be their first of many lessons in lost dog psychology.
Twice a day they hiked out to get the sim cards. And every new video was a blast of excitement and hope. And then a let down when the footage turned out to be a raccoon or a skunk or this one very fat housecat.
Scott: We were like, wait, what was it that moved? Was it like a leaf or something? And then we like watched it again and saw her like leash drag away out of the frame. And so we were like, Oh wow. Okay. So like she is out here and we, there's a reason to keep going.
Scott: I don't remember the time between me seeing the first video and realizing, okay, we're trapping her, but when they said that to us, I kind of had this like thing wash over me of like, Oh no, like if we're trapping her, like, what is our relationship going to look like? Is she gonna like, know that it was me? And like, when I go to get her out of whatever trap it is, is she gonna associate me with all of that scary danger and like, not want to be part of our family anymore? I remember having real conversations with Shelby of like, is the, like, it might be the best thing for her to be rehomed if we ever get her back
The first step to trapping a dog, is to get them eating consistently in the same place, every day. And this is when Scott and Shelby kind of went all out. They started putting a bowl of food at the intersection where they saw her on the camera.
Shelby: Like a big bowl of food at that intersection and then we would go like What are they Hansel and Gretel and drop kibble like we would hike out and drop kibble like on all the trails leading to it.
Shelby: Every single day I would go to this combination gas station grocery store and buy, uh, you know how grocery stores mark down the meats that's about to go bad? I would just clean them out of all of that, and I made a big campfire, and I would just constantly be cooking meat on the campfire.
Shelby: Maybe the craziest thing that I did is, um, I started hanging, like, bacon from the trees there because the higher up that you put food and, like, that scent, it catches the wind. And so I was like, I want to make this area as exciting for her as possible.
Sarah: One time she even hung fried chicken from the trees. And when they came back later someone had taken a single bite. Shelby thinks it must have been a bear, because what person would eat fried chicken hanging from the trees. I think it must have been a bear, because what person would only take a single bite of fried chicken.
Shelby: I was also a little bit worried because like Who is liable if someone does go down there, and all of my chicken injuries have attracted a bear, and like, someone gets eaten by a bear? I was like, I'm gonna go down for murder for this. Like, and what am I gonna say? Oh well I lost a dog!
Sarah: And it may have been over the top, but it did work! They got Holly eating at the same place every day for two weeks straight. She developed a regular cadence and schedule. It felt like a huge win! They were so close to having her back.
Scott: Some of my co workers, but like our family too were like, how long is too long to be out there? Or like, like, when do you think you're going to wrap this up was like one of one of the harder questions to hear.
At one point Shelby described it to me like this: if they stopped looking for Holly the story would be that they adopted a dog from an abusive household, drove her out into the woods several states away, dropped her there and basically left her for dead.
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