March 4th Track Map & Its Continuation

The track started around 9pm on Clifton St near Edsall Rd. It looped a few times there on the south side of Edsall Rd before crossing over. The track needed to end and should be continued on Saturday.

Update late Saturday: details of Saturday evening's continuation track will follow on Sunday, but Griffy didn't stay in the Edsall Rd area long. He went back to Little River Turnpike and meandered around there, on the north side of it. In the end, when the track had to end because Sam and Gail were exhausted, they were at the Annandale United Methodist Church Cemetery, and it seems that Griffy spent time there. More later, along with the map.

New Sighting - Hot!

Not much in the way of details yet but it's off of Edsall Road, so he crossed Braddock -- if this is him. Check back for details!

Update: this sighting was investigated by both Gail (Griffy's mom) and Donna (one of the volunteers). After initial canvassing made it appear that the caller was seeing a neighborhood dog named JJ, it now looks like both JJ and Griffy were out and about in the neighborhood mid-day today. Someone in the neighborhood who knows JJ and looked at a picture of Griffy stated that she too, like the caller, saw a dog that looks just like Griffy roaming around earlier today -- with JJ. We still need to reach JJ's people to talk to them, and so hopefully more information will be available later. We are trying to reach Sam to get her and Salsa out to verify this sighting.

Assuming we can do this, and that Salsa tells us it was Griffy that was seen in this neighborhood, we need to re-think weekend plans for outreach. This would have us trying to reach a new population, and maybe with different methods from what we were doing before.

Stay tuned!

Update at midnight: So, it was Griffy that the caller, David, saw off Edsall Rd. David remembered seeing a flier at a deli, when he saw Griffy, and he called the deli and asked them to look on the flier to give him the number to call in the sighting. Pretty cool, David -- so glad you are so resourceful. Am too tired to relay the details of the track at the moment, but it does look like Griffy milled about in one neighborhood on one side of Edsall Rd, then crossed Edsall and milled about in another neighborhood. And we had to call the track before the scent ran out; the plan is to try picking it back up Saturday. I'm hoping for another sighting before that, but we need fliers out at the new area off Edsall Rd, between Braddock & 395, if we're going to get many calls.

It's Wednesday, There Should Have Been A Sighting

The last two Wednesdays, Griffy sighting calls came in. So we spent all day hoping the phone would ring again today, with a sighting call. There's now less than an hour left of Wednesday, so that's not much time.

We are getting tired of our fliers not resulting in Griffy sighting calls, so we are trying some new activities this weekend to spread the word about Griffy. Can you join us for something fun? Send an email if you can get together with a group of us in a creative effort to tell Annandale about Griffy.

Griffy Is Still Lost, Still Being Sought!

As of Friday night, it had been five weeks since the accident from which Griffy ran. That's a lllloooonnnngggg time for the little guy's family to be without him and not knowing where he is, and at times, if he even survived the snow storms or the traffic or whatever else is out there.

Sightings since the snow storms, and resulting tracks in which a trained tracking dog has picked up and followed Griffy's scent, tell us that he is alive and relatively well, moving around and even running. We hope his running is not in true terror, but just a reaction to someone seeing him and calling out to him, since he right now may see pursuers as predators.

From the information we've gotten, we know that Griffy -- who started out his journey between Little River Turnpike and Braddock Road (in Annandale VA), has crossed over to the other side of both of those busy roads, and back. He started out just east of Heritage, and he has traveled well east of Backlick. Through it all, he's held on to his collar and tags, but he has now missed two haircuts (he is normally cut monthly, and was due for a cut the day after he went missing.) He's missed five baths now, and we're guessing he'll be looking rough and matted when he's finally found.

Griffy's famly doesn't have many pictures of him, and we are now using a picture of another Brussels Griffon in a sign that will be displayed on Little River Turnpike today. We need to reach people that are seeing Griffy and can report where they've seen him. We need to go get him, and take him home.