Emergency crews have undertaken a particular rescue operation to save lots of a canine that spent practically seven hours caught on a cliff ledge in Queensland’s Glass House Mountains.
Key factors:
- Cooper the bull mastiff cross was trapped on a small ledge subsequent to a 25-metre drop at Mount Ngungun
- The canine had escaped from a close-by property after being spooked throughout a lightning storm
- Firefighters scaled the cliff face to get to the canine and fix it to a harness
Cooper the bull mastiff cross had escaped from a close-by property after being spooked by a lightning storm within the early hours of Thursday morning earlier than turning into trapped.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) have been known as in to assist after the homeowners reported the pet’s plight at about 7:20am.
Maroochydore station officer Scott Daly mentioned Cooper was discovered midway up Mount Ngungun, trapped on a small ledge subsequent to a 25-metre drop.
“It (Cooper) wasn’t in a very good state. It was very chilly, shivering,” he mentioned.
“I’d say with the moist circumstances there final evening and the slipperiness of the rocks, it is fallen down into that little gully, and that is the place it stayed.”
Mr Daly mentioned it was a “bizarre, freak incidence” however the emergency crews have been nicely ready to assist.
“We truly do have a specialised piece of kit, particularly for rescuing dogs,” he mentioned.
“It’s truly a canine harness that may be hooked up to a line.
“Mostly it was a matter of attempting to climb up the aspect of the mountain and round to get on high of it and arrange some anchor factors.”
One crew member was lowered to the ledge, the place they hooked up the canine to the harness after which scaled the cliff to return to the bottom.
“Once we obtained maintain of it, it perked up considerably,” Mr Daly mentioned.
“Then, when it obtained into the arms of the homeowners down beneath, it regarded recent as a daisy.”
Mr Daly mentioned the homeowners have been “very grateful” to be reunited with their pet.
“They simply could not consider how the canine obtained caught like that.”
