Status as of Late Sunday, June 21st

If anything encouraging happened today, I didn't learn about it. I did speak to a few volunteers, one of which was going out to flier, and another that was going to do some internet research to develop another email distribution list so we can get more fliers circulating that way. I've also found out from our feeding station monitors that at last check, "the good stuff" (smelly cat food) has been eaten but the kibble has been left at our feeding station. This doesn't give us any indication that it is or is not Leo eating from our feeding station. But we will keep it going for at least another week, even if we can't tell for sure if Leo is eating from it.

There are still numerous activities that we need going on now, each of which needs to be high priority:

1) Going on the belief that Leo may still be hanging around the Douglas Park area, we need to keep two things going in that area -- a) the feeding station we have plus 1-2 more, which requires monitors, and b) the spreading of the word to residents who see him to call 804-337 -9715, which requires fliering volunteers and canvassing volunteers.

2) To avoid putting all of our eggs in one basket, we still need to reach out to others outside of the Douglas Park area to let them know about Leo, as he can at any time, and he conceivably has already, migrated out of Douglas Park. There are many ways that Leo supporters can do this on their own, such as: fliering windshields of cars at shopping areas; posting the URL for this blog to any and all types of electronic bulletin boards (see the menu at right for a sample); emailing the flier to anyone and everyone you can think of -- or sending me a list of emails that I can roll into an email distribution list. We also need a press release and a distribution list of publications and media personnel to send it to.

I feel pretty certain that some folks are doing some of this and not reporting it; it would be a huge help to the effort if you email me directly whatever you are doing. Someone else may do the same thing you do and we'd like to avoid duplication of effort.

Let's all hope for another sighting to come through on Monday. Who wants to be the hero and go get it by canvassing the area around Douglas Park?

Nancy Despeaux
TesterDesp@aol.com