[Vision2020] Eddie the Jack Russell Rescued in Boise

Sun Feb 20 06:25:48 PST 2011

Courtesy of the Daily Mail (U.K.) at:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358776/Eddie-Jack-Russell-saved-19-
HOURS-trapped-underground.html#ixzz1EVaXWndc

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Doggone it: Eddie the Jack Russell is saved by truck driver owner after 19
HOURS trapped underground

By Oliver Pickup
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=y&authornamef=Oliver+Pickup> 
Last updated at 2:09 PM on 20th February 2011

This is the heart-warming moment when Eddie the Jack Russell was saved,
after 19 hours of being trapped underground.

The one-and-a-half year-old had come loose from his lead, scurried
underneath a fence and accidentally fell into a nearby irrigation
distribution box, before squeezing into a narrow steel pipe under the
asphalt.

Owner Glen Farrell, a truck driver, thought that he had lost his best friend
when he returned to the yard in Boise, Idaho, but when he heard backing
underneath where he was standing, he and his colleagues quickly set about
saving the dog.

Happy ending: Eddie the Jack Russell sticks his nose out of the steel pipe,
where he was stuck for hours

Happy ending: Eddie the Jack Russell sticks his nose out of the steel pipe,
where he was stuck for hours

Dig for victory: Eddie's owner and his friends dig into the asphalt and dirt
to save the dog

Dig for victory: Eddie's owner and his friends dig into the asphalt and dirt
to save the dog

Half a dozen men sprung into action and used their diggers and heavy duty
equipment to left the earth and cut Eddie out - he had scrambled 30ft up the
pipe from its entrance, and could not backtrack.

But as Eddie has wiggled his way up the pipe, he was only a matter of feet
under the ground and owner Farrell, who had left Eddie tied in the yard
before he went on his job the day before, told KTVB.com: 'I could see him
down in there, way down in there.'

An anxious dig, though the asphalt, dirt and, after cutting the steel pipe,
Eddie excitedly popped his nose out and saw daylight for the first time in
19 hours.

Heave! Farrell's pals lend a hand in saving one-and-a-half year-old Eddie

Daylight! The Jack Russell squeezes hi nose out of the steel pipe as his
owner Glen Farrell cuts the metal

Mucky pup: The rescuers look on as Farrell pulls his dog free from the
ground

Mucky pup: The rescuers look on as Farrell pulls his dog free from the
ground

Shortly afterwards the rest of the dog emerged, and he jumped into Farrell's
arms.

'He's shaking a little bit,' said the relieved owner, looking at his
shivering black-and-white dog caked in mud. 

'He just wants to go home now, and have a bath and sit by the fire,
probably. You hear these stories, and you think, well, you know... but here
we are. We're one of them now.'

Farrell said that Eddie is always getting into scrapes, but this was the
first - and hopefully last - time he has managed to do something like this.

Freed: Eddie jumps out of the hole that has been dig to save him - and after
19 hours underground, boy is he happy

Freed: Eddie jumps out of the hole that has been dig to save him - and after
19 hours underground, boy is he happy

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

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