Frantic Search For Dog, Just Adopted, Rescued From Puerto Rico

SAG HARBOR, NY — The community is turning out to help find a missing dog Bailey, lost since last Wednesday in Sag Harbor.

Bailey went missing from the Brick Kiln Rd. area, between Old Sag Harbor Rd. and Scuttle Hole Rd. He is about 7 years old, 28 lbs. and a rescue from Puerto Rico.

"Please help us find him as the weather is going to turn deadly cold in the next few days," one woman, who has been spreading the word on social media, said.

According to Carol Holley, who had been working with Bailey at the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons and had only had him home for less than a week: "I let my guard down for a second, to bring some things into the house, and he scooted out the door. It's my worst nightmare," she said.

Bailey, she said, is a very "very skittish, very timid street dog from Puerto Rico. We suspect he probably figured out a place to hunker down and to find food — that's why we haven’t seen him."

If anyone sees him, they should not try to catch him. "Don't chase him; he will run. He's a runner," Holley said.

Instead, Holley, who moved full-time to Sag Harbor about a year ago, said anyone who spots him should call 914-325-4321 or ARF at 631-537-0400 ext. 203.

ARF has a trapper searching, but a good sighting is needed before a feeding station can be set up to lure Bailey in.

Holley's heart is broken as she searches for her new addition.

"He's super duper sweet. He looks like the dog from the Little Rascals, all white with that black patch on his eye," she said. "He was just beginning to make a connection with me, and with my other dog Faye — also rescued from ARF — at home. We just want to get him home safely."