This Sweet Dog Went Missing 169 Days Ago On Hilton Head Island And Her Family Is Desperate To Bring Her Home
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Marley is an adorable 4-year-old grey and white Whippet mix who is supposed to be living at home in Atlanta, Georgia along with her family right now.
Unfortunately, 169 days ago she sadly went missing on Hilton Head Island while on vacation with her family.
Her family rented a cottage on the beach for their vacation, and while her family went to dinner one evening, some guests stopped by the cottage without notice.
After opening the door to the cottage, Marley got surprised and made a beeline out the open door, running in the direction of the beach.
GoFundMe; pictured above is Marley
Luckily, in the past several months, many people on Hilton Head Island have seen Marley in various locations, so she is still out there.
Since Marley disappeared, her dad Derek has remained on the island, instead of going home to Atlanta, in order to help find her.
“We have continuously ran social media, flyers, trail cams, scent articles, scent trails, etc daily since,” Marley’s mom Alex wrote on a GoFundMe page.
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“We have one last big idea we want to try before Derek returns home. However, we no longer have the funds required to hire anyone, so we have decided to open a GFM in hopes of raising the money to hire a company to come out and help us do a ground search.”
“While we hired a group in early November -and they hit on Marley’s scent- due to time constraints they could only stay overnight.”
Alex and Derek are hoping to raise enough money to pay to have this group come out and do another search for Marley, and this group has 7 search dogs they will be bringing with them.
“We are hopeful this will bring Marley home- but it is expensive,” Alex said. “It is $4,000 to get them here and for 1 day of work (4-6 hrs).”
“After that, it is $1,500/day for room/board & the search that day. We are asking for $8,500 because we are hoping to do (4) full days of searching in order to split the area up into 4-5 sections to search.”
In addition to this group, Alex and Derek have hired a drone pilot and animal rescuer named Douglas Thron to help look for Marley, and it’s going to cost them a little over $3,000 to pay for Douglas’s time.
The search for Marley is certainly becoming expensive, but Alex and Derek are hoping that this will all pay off and Marley will be found safely soon.
If you would like to help Marley’s family in the search for her, you can visit their GoFundMe page here.
Marley’s family has also created a Facebook group to help look for her that you can visit here.
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