Dog rescued from drain pipe
Posted by Ashlee Omerigic on December 5, 2008
A German Shepard mix by the name of Zeke was rescued on Wednesday after being stuck in a 15-inch pipe in St. Paris, Ohio for five days.
According to his owner, Sarah Story , Zeke got trapped in the pipe after chasing after an animal last Friday. After four days of digging holes and cutting up sections of the drainage pipe with the help of friends and neighbors, his owners called off the search when they could not find the dog.
It wasn’t until business owner Steve Maller contacted them, that the family had any hope of seeing Zeke again. Miller owns a company that contracts with cities throughough Ohio for sewer line inspections, and he had a camera that could go 1300 feet into the pipe to look for Zeke. He heard about the Zeke from the local news and decided to help out.
He arrived on Wednesday and after four hours, the workers spotted Zeke four-hundred-fifty feet in the pipe. He was found alive and calm nearly 1,000 feet from the opening he had crawled into. Despite being stuck without food and water for five days, the dog was in good spirits and good health when he was finally freed.
According to animal rescue groups there is no way that an animal could have survived underground without food and water for more than a week, meaning Zeke’s rescue came just in time.
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