By Kari Pugh
July 12, 2011
Update, Wedneday, 8:50 a.m.
Prince William County police say a passerby on U.S. 15 found Cricket about 9:45 p.m. Tuesday night near Logmill Road and held her until police arrived and reunited her with her family. Wayne Boyd, a friend of the Perrys, said finding Cricket would help the family as they grieve the death of Charlotte Perry, who was killed in Sunday's crash.
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Friends of Charlotte Perry, the 72-year-old Fauquier County woman killed in Sunday's head-on crash along U.S. 15, gathered in Haymarket on Tuesday to search for her lost show dog.
Wayne Boyd, a family friend, was hanging fliers Tuesday afternoon and said volunteers and a tracking dog would be searching the area for the missing dog, named Cricket.
Police said the impact of the crash that claimed Perry's life forced open a crate holding Cricket, a Great Pyrenees.
The show dog, about 5 years old, was last seen running northbound along U.S. 15 just after the collision.
Perry, her 79-year-old husband and Cricket were traveling home from a dog show at the Howard County Fairgrounds in Maryland when the wreck happened.
Police said Perry was trying to pass a vehicle and ran head on into an RV traveling in the opposite lane. Perry was killed instantly and her husband seriously injured.
Boyd said Perry's husband has since been released from the hospital and is "devastated."
There have been no Cricket sightings since the crash, and no one knows whether the dog was injured.
"I saw the van and the van itself is terrible," Boyd said. "But the crate itself wasn't too damaged."
Boyd said he's hoping Cricket is OK, despite the crash, thunderstorms and heat.
The family is offering a $500 reward for her safe return.
Anyone who has seen Cricket or may have information on where she is asked to call
Source: http://www2.insidenova.com/news/2011/jul/12/3/friends-search-us-15-show-dog-missing-fatal-crash-ar-1167953/?referer=None&shorturl=http://bit.ly/o7rhaB
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