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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

Missouri cavers rescue dog stranded for nearly two months

The dog didn’t seem to have any injures, but she was ‘really malnourished’, Rick Haley said.
The dog didn’t seem to have any injures, but she was ‘really malnourished’, Rick Haley said. Photograph: Rick Haley

Cavers in Missouri recently rescued a dog stranded hundreds of feet underground almost two months after the animal disappeared from her family’s home.

A small group of cavers discovered Abby, a 13-year-old pet, while exploring the passages of the 18-mile Berome Moore cave system in Perry county on 6 August. They alerted the local fire department and members of the Cave Research Foundation at the surface of their discovery about 500ft below.

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