<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of CBS-Dallas/Fort Worth at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/11/25/trapped-for-nine-days-puppy-freed-from-storm-drain/">http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/11/25/trapped-for-nine-days-puppy-freed-from-storm-drain/</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Trapped For Nine Days, Puppy Freed From Storm Drain</span></font></h1></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">DALLAS (<a href="http://CBSDFW.COM">CBSDFW.COM</a>) – </strong>Animal control officers worked most of Monday to pull a stranded puppy from a storm drain.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hours after their efforts began, the trapped puppy was freed safe and sound.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The puppy was stuck off Singleton Boulevard — near loop 12 — in west Dallas.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gabe P. Allen Elementary School teacher Lynda Roth reported hearing the puppy barking nine days ago. The drain is right behind her portable classroom.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I went over to the drain behind my portable and I heard it barking loudly but I couldn’t see anything because it was filled with water,” she said.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Firefighters came to check it out, but couldn’t locate the pup. Roth heard the barking again Monday, so she called Dallas Animal Services.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“My hope is to get this rascal out. It shows how brave it is,” she said. “It’s been under there since the16th in this horrible weather.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Animal services sent a team of employees. At one point, there were as many as 10 workers in seven different units trying to rescue the puppy.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They even sent a special mobile camera on wheels under ground looking through the pipes, but found nothing.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hours into the search–the workers decided to try and bait the puppy into a specific area, with a food trap. Nearly six hours later, he found the food and was pulled to safety.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We were pretty adamant about this one. He was in a bad situation. We needed to get him out,” said Paul Ellis from Dallas Animal Services.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img src="cid:4FF02478-EA30-4108-9432-6729B6862406" alt="puppy-for-web-2.jpg" id="4FF02478-EA30-4108-9432-6729B6862406" width="625" height="352"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rescued puppy from storm drain.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">--------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Video</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://dfw.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=9570657">http://dfw.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=9570657</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>