A seven month old pup has survived being lost and trapped in Mourne country for nine days as her owners, friends and strangers searched for her without success.
Used to the comforts of her North Belfast home, Nova the German Shepherd, had little experience of wild living, but incredibly she survived and today is home sleeping off the effects of her traumatic experience.
It was thanks to an adventurous photographer that she was spotted and the alarm raised and the NIFRS for bringing her to safety from a cave on a waterfall in Tollymore Forest Park.
