On Oct. 5, Jessica Hendricks lost her best friend. While on a camping trip in the San Rafael Swell in Utah, her dog Kona was startled by fireworks and bolted into the woods.
The Boulder resident has now spent weeks in Utah searching for her furry companion. She has received help from a volunteer trapper out of Salt Lake City and a professional animal tracker from Wyoming who uses a drone and scent-tracking dog.
That has left Hendricks with a hefty bill for the search efforts. Eight days ago she set up a GoFundMe — gofundme.com/f/bring-kona-home-donate-for-search-efforts — that has raised $3,445 of its $4,000 goal as of Thursday…