A dachshund was stolen from its home in Boothbay on Friday.

Christian Jewett, the dog's owner, said she arrived home after work around 4 p.m. on Friday and discovered that her dog, Delilah, was missing, along with her crate.

Jewett said that she wasn't too concerned when she first discovered her dog was missing because her parents live two houses away, and it wasn't unusual for them to come to her house and take her dog to theirs. “I really thought nothing of it when she wasn't there,” she said.

But when she went to her parents' house on Saturday morning to look in on their dog, because they had left for the day, Delilah wasn't there. She called her parents and asked them if they had taken Delilah on Friday and learned that they hadn't.

Jewett said when she left her house Friday morning at 9, she put Delilah in a small cage, where she had been being kept as a preventative measure against urinating in the house.

It wasn't until Saturday morning after she learned her dog wasn't at her parents' house that she noticed that a screen had been broken and removed from a window. The doors had been left locked because of recent break-ins in the area.

She said the window had been closed, but not locked, and items that had been on a table beneath it were scattered on the floor. “The tablecloth, the runner, and mail was scattered around. I thought at first my cat had done it, until I noticed that the screen had been torn out.”

Nothing else was missing from the house, and Jewett said she has no idea why someone would take her dog.

Jewett said she works full-time, goes to school full-time, and is a single mom, with a 6-year-old son, so she doesn't have time to have visitors often.

Delilah is around a year and a half old, and was in a pink cage when she was taken.

Jewett said she's concerned that wherever her dog is she may not try to come home. “She's a really loving, playful dog, not shy or timid, so if she gets the slightest bit of attention she's going to love them. That's just how she is.”

“And she never barks, so even if someone has her I would never hear her barking.”

Jewett called Lincoln County Sheriff's Office on Saturday morning, and was told they would be looking into it. As of 2 p.m. on Monday she hadn't heard back from them.

Jewett lives on Hardwick Road just beyond G & G Towing. If anyone has any information about Delilah's whereabouts she asks that you call her at 207-380-5578.