Puppies on Cliff - Rescued!
On Saturday evening, a member of a local hiking group fb page posted a desperate plea for help in getting two dogs off a cliff ledge. According to the post, the dogs had been up there for four days crying and barking.Apparently, a friend of the poster lived right under where the dogs were located and could hear them barking and crying all night, but couldn't get at them to bring them down. The poster had contacted the RCMP and the local Search and Rescue (SAR), and both had told them it wasn't a human and there wasn't anything they could do.
The poster was at his wit's end, begging for someone with climbing experience to help get these two dogs off the ledge and not leave them to starve to death. As many in the hiking group had dogs, the response was immediate and encouraging, with offers of a canine stretcher and various other paraphernalia possibly required.
Receiving enough help, they organized a group to attempt to get the dogs at 6:30am yesterday morning.
A local SAR volunteer apparently offered to help, and probably advised the team that unqualified and inexperienced climbers were going to try and rescue the dogs. Rather than risk the lives of humans trying to rescue the dogs, the SAR team stepped up and in and asked people to stay away from the area in the morning, as they'd be going in themselves to get the dogs.
With bated breath, everyone that was aware of the dogs waited for word on the rescue. Finally, about mid-morning, photos were posted of the SAR rescuers with the puppies in their arms. The dogs were only about 17 weeks old and St. Bernard mix, so still very little. How they got to the ledge and who they belong to is still a mystery, but there are all kinds of offers of adoption.
I can't, for the life of me, understand how two puppies could be left on a ledge and the owner not frantic to get them down. At this point, no one is owning up to ownership, or how those two puppies ended up being there.
My big question is, did the owner and puppies fall and are they missing the owner somewhere down the cliff? Hopefully, no humans are out there, injured, but I'd think SAR would check. So many questions with no answers, but the great news is that the puppies were rescued and are safe.
Comments (18)
The pups may have wandered to a place inaccessible to a larger dog.
I know. Bigfoot works part time as a groomer for lost puppies.
I'll never understand some people. Thank goodness my story had a happy ending. The poor guy that lived below where the puppies were - it must have been heartbreaking listening to that all night for four nights.
They should have at least tried to give them to good homes.
Some people are cruel and uncaring.
But luckily, there are good people out there who are good and caring,
What an absolutely horrific option to choose - starving on a ledge. We've ALL seen dogs frantically racing along the road trying to catch up with the car they were dumped from. Karma will catch up with those owners one day but that doesn't help the dumped and terrified now.
Imp, what does spaying / neutering cost in Canada? It's quite expensive in the UK and even devoted pet owners don't always bother. They'll keep their dog locked up while it is in season but nature is nature, dogs will out, and hoo boy a litter on the way.
Cats - well, I have my cat because its mum fell pregnant when 5 months old, too young to spay. One kitten, which the owner decided to keep. Before he was even weaned she was pregnant again. She was kept inside every minute with both lots until she could be spayed and her firstborn was already, less than 6 months old, trying to mount her by the time she was whipped off to the vet.
As far as dogs/cats getting out - it is still the responsibility of the owner to ensure they don't. Cleo, the cat I recently rescued with her kittens, was only about a year old herself with her litter. Who knows if that was her first or not? Fortunately, she's found a furever home and will be spayed next week.
The rest of the kittens except one have homes, thank goodness.