Help Find Cricket

[Jesse]

www.bluemontva.org

Lost Dog. Please be on the lookout for a Chocolate Lab Retreiver named Cricket

On Thursday January 8th, my dog Cricket went missing from my yard on the Snickersville Turnpike in Bluemont, between 1:30 and 2:00 PM.
 
Cricket is a 7 year old spayed female chocolate lab with a graying muzzle.  She is portly.  She has an eye disease that is causing her to go blind, so her eyes have a greenish haze in dim light.  She has a surgical scar on her left back leg and has a lot of pain in that leg that causes her to yelp if that leg is touched.

If you have any information at all that may help me find her, please call me.  No questions asked.

Jeanne Girolami
Bluemont, VA
540-554-2074 home
540-454-2651 work/cell

And another letter from Jeanne taken from Facebook:

The above link is from our Bluemont online newsletter. I am continuing to appeal to anyone who may know anything about Cricket to please contact me.
I am in terrible agony over the disappearance of my beloved Cricket. She is my best friend. Cricket is the one dog that comes along in a person's lifetime. She is the dog of my heart. I can't function without her. I can't sleep, or eat, or think straight. I drive around on my pet sitting rounds in a blur of tears and grief wondering what has become of her. Cricket always sat on the passenger seat next to me every day as I drove my pet sitting rounds. Cricket could always put at ease my pet sitting charges who were shy, or scared or missed their owners. She was a doggy ambassader. Cricket loves everybody and every creature. Everbody loves Cricket.

In the spring, Cricket helps me plant flower bulbs. She loves to dig a hole in the soil for the bulbs. She lays next to me in the sunshine while I tend the new flowers,pull weeds and mulch the beds. I don't know how I will be able to garden this spring without her help. Cricket loves to help me clean house too. She follows me around while I sweep, sometimes grabbing the broom and frustrating me. Now I would give anything to have her get under my feet. Who will help me finish my icecream now? Who will lick the pans clean before I load them in the dishwasher. Who will walk to the mail box with me? Who will walk to the pond with me. Does whoever have her know she loves to swim and fetch ball and sticks? Do they know where her favorite tickle spot is? Will they know that when she grabs your hand and growls like a bear that she is just playing? Where is the dog that sleeps on the pillow next to me? The dog that keeps me warm on cold winter nights? Where is the dogs that loves me everyday, even when I am unloveable? Nobody loves Cricket like I love Cricket. And Cricket loves noone like she loves me.

I miss my sweet Cricket and want her back home. It is my dream that this email makes it around the United States. Forward it to everyone on your email list. Forward it to your local shelter, vets, kennels and pet sitters. Cricket is microchipped, so if only she can make it to a shelter, then maybe she can make it back to me.
God bless you for helping me

j.girolami@yahoo.com
jeanne girolami
540-454-2651
540-554-2074

[C. Susie W.]

I'll be on the lookout for sure...

[Jesse]

Ok this is just too weird. First Cricket and now her other dog has gone missing:

Bluemont resident fears dogs were stolen
By Jana Wagoner
Source: Loudoun Times-Mirror
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16 2009

Bluemont resident Jeanne Girolami is hoping for the safe return of two of her family members for Christmas – Labrador retrievers she said were stolen from her yard, the latest on Dec. 11.

Back in January, Girolami's chocolate Lab Cricket, 8, went missing, an hour after a technician had been at her house for a service call.

The technician asked a lot of questions about her dogs, which she breeds.

Neighbors did not think a service technician would steal her dog, so she called Animal Care and Control rather than police.
But then, on Dec. 11, her yellow Lab Olive, 4, went missing. Girolami was outside doing chores, and when she was ready to go in, she called Olive, who was nowhere to be found. This time, she called police.

Girolami said an invisible fence around her yard keeps the dogs from going any further than a neighbor's house.
Her theory is that whoever took Cricket tried to breed her and realized she was spayed, so he or she came back and took Olive, who was pregnant when she was taken.

Girolami said the dogs were friendly and would have been easy to steal.

“Both of the dogs that are missing would have jumped in the car with anybody,” she said.

Girolami said the dogs had identification tags and microchips, so they would have been easily identified if they had run away.
Anyone with information about where the dogs are should call the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office at 703-777-1919.

“I just want my dogs back,” Girolami said.