Marley was stuck in her 2d protection in her 3 - year - old life-time when Pilots N Paws come to her deliverance .
Take one feel at Marley ’s light browned eyes and ever - wagging posterior and you could see she ’s vivid , sure-footed , and piquant .
It ’s impossible to say where liveliness start for 3 - twelvemonth - old Marley . She was born , most likely , in Florida . No one know who her first owners were , but she landed in a shelter on the Panhandle where her second family adopted her . They were an older couple who found that Marley ’s exuberant personality and energy level were a small too much for them . So Marley ended up in another protection , Franklin County Humane Society ( FCHS ) , in Eastpoint , Fla.
Tracie Crawshaw
FCHS Director Karen Marlsberg Martin remember seeing Marley for the first sentence . Marlsberg Martin see hundred of adoptable andiron a yr , but tells Daily Paws that Marley was an unforgettable cad . " I just fell in love with her , " she express mirth . " Marley really read her personality … She run up to my desk and sat down in front of me . When I did n’t respond decently away , she scooched up a couple inches closer . " That became Marley ’s signature move : the scooch - in for more aid . The puppy ’s photo and description were posted to the shelter ’s Facebook Sir Frederick Handley Page in hopes that potential adopters would see her and reach out .
A Long Journey Home
At the same time , mile away , a young military family in Virginia Beach , Va. , were in deep word aboutgetting their first dog . They heard about Marley through a volunteer at the FCHS , and were smite after see her photo . But how would they get this angelical delivery pup 860 miles by to their plate in Virginia ?
Pilots N Paws , an organization of volunteer pilots who transport positron emission tomography by air , was the answer they were search for . The non - profit system organise favourite - get laid volunteer archetype with animals in need of transportation . Jo Brendel , flight coordinator for Pilots N Paws , lined up three escape with three pilot to get Marley from Florida to her new household in Virginia . " The delivery / flights involve a gross ton of people . saving , fosters , sometimes ground car transporter , coordinator , and pilots . It always flummox me how many hoi polloi it occupy to pull through one dog that it took one soul to throw off , " Brendel say .
It may have taken a squad of volunteers to align her journey home , but it only took a few hours for Marley to scooch her manner into many more hearts . Tracie Crawshaw , a airplane pilot from Tallahassee , Fla. , picked up Marley for her first branch of the flight in a Vans RV-6 . This two - seat aerobatic measures 20 feet in length with a 23 - foot wingspan . " Marley started out in the baggage compartment behind the two seats , " Crawshaw say . But the noise of the planing machine unsettle Marley and she opted for the copilot prat , right next to Crawshaw . " I guarantee her in the copilot seat , and Marley position her head on my leg , " says Crawshaw who flee from Apalachicola , Fla. , to Statesboro , Ga. , in 90 second ( 236 nautical mile ) .
Doug Jimerson
In Statesboro , Marley met up with pilot Richard Marz ( a dental practitioner who shuttle animals for Pilots N Paws in his scanty time ) . Marz vanish Marley in his Mooney Ovation 2 four - seater aeroplane to Charlotte , N.C .. He picked up Marley , climbed up on the backstage , then placed the dog into the back seat for the escape , which lasted a piddling more than an hour . " Marley was so sweet , " Marz say . " animal have no safety nets , and they need everyone they can get who can aid out . "
From there , Marley hitched a ride from Lee White of Charlottesville , Va. , who flew Marley in his Columbia 400 plane . Marley sit in the back seat , then come gone . " The dissonance and vibration of the plane — it ’s like take a babe for aride in a car , " White say .
Home At Last
When Marley at last touched down in Norfolk , Va. , she ’d been in the strain that day a total of six hours ! The pup had covered 641 marine mi with three pilots before she met her new family .
" Lia ( 6 ) and Conor ( 18 months ) both love playing with Marley in their own ways , " say mom Stef ( whose last name we agree not to partake in because of the family ’s military career ) . " Marley is admit in the pretend games of Lia and her friends and sometimes even catch to enter in dress up , " she laughs . " Conor loves trying to share his solid food with Marley , and think it is extremely hilarious when she , of class , accepts . Marley ’s favorite are dark-green noodle and wimp nugget . " When Stef tell Lia that their new whelp ’s name was Marley , Lia chose her middle name . She is now Marley Cookie Dough .
Marley land in her new home and fit right in immediately . " We feel it was fate with how quickly and easily Marley arrived to us after we saw her picture put up in the Facebook radical . It was like powerful aside we knew Marley was the pup for us , " Stef tell .
Tracie Crawshaw
From the looks of it , Marley Cookie Dough agrees .
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