After a week long road trip with no lost dogs in site except for a rogue mouse in my engine, we arrived in Truckee, north of Lake Tahoe California. It’s beautiful, forested, dense, humid, leaks water everywhere, and seems to have a lot of… lost dogs?

I’m not sure if this happens everywhere and people elsewhere just don’t have a public place to post photos of their lost dogs, but I am apart of a Truckee-Tahoe people facebook group and there are lost dog posts DAILY, sometimes 2-3. On top of that here are actual physical signs posted of lost dogs…such as “Don’t chase, but text photo if you see him”.

I’ve pondered why a lot…Maybe the population is just larger than other spots i’ve lived, hence more dogs, more potential for lost dogs. Sure, but it’s still a pretty small town of 16,000 people. I’ve been on other facebook group pages for where I lived in other towns and don’t recall seeing nearly as many lost dog posts.

I’ve also thought about some superstitious…perhaps conspiracy theories…. about these lost dogs. After boondocking through the desert for nearly a week in Utah and Nevada passing Area 51, one begins to wonder what’s in the air…I’ve got a few hippie friends who talk about chem trails, beams, high frequency noises, stuff like that… Dorothy is out of the clean rocky mountain air now and into….California…. And dogs are more sensitive to that kind of stuff anyway, right? They run away when they sense storms coming, earthquakes, high frequency noises, aliens. Is the san andreas fault about to slip??

Week one of work after Andrew and I discussed why their are so many lost dogs…Andrew came back from work and said a woman asked golf course maintenance to keep an eye out for her dog who ran away when she was walking on the cart path. A couple hours later Andrew had the dog, limping and dirty, run up to him on the golf course begging for help but scared. They couldn’t catch him but called the owner who reunited with him.

Wherever these dogs are running off to, I hope it’s somewhere with some food, water, sunshine, and swimming areas.

Ok…it’s solved. People DON’T USE LEASHES. I mean no one…I’ve seen A LOT of rogue dogs out walking on paths, in parks, on trails…Also there are a ton of dogs here…. like almost everyone that lives here…has a dog, or dogs.