Deaf Dog Missing For 30 Hours Found In 20ft Rabbit Hole After Vanishing On Walk

Dizzy, a hard-of-hearing Cocker Spaniel, is the dog in question, according to The Daily Mirror. Dizzy went missing after her owner, Duncan Flowers, 54, lost her while taking her for a walk in the Burlish Top nature reserve in Worcestershire, England.

Duncan was overjoyed after 70 members of the local group banded together and hunted for the abandoned dog before midnight after he put an urgent post on Facebook for assistance.

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Unfortunately, they were unable to locate Dizzy. Duncan, on the other hand, had Lady Luck on his side the next day as he returned to Burlish Top for another look.

After discovering a rabbit hole nearby, Duncan hired the aid of a close friend who possessed a JCB digger to dig the burrow.

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Duncan's pal Dan Tonks managed to catch the moment the ten-year-old dog popped out, coated in soil from being stuck down the small 20-foot-deep shaft while filming the digging.

Duncan is seen picking up Dizzy and giving her a firm embrace as the audience cheers in the background.

Per The Mirror, Duncan later commented on the rescue effort by stating: "We were on the way back home when Dizzy went into a hedgerow between two fields and disappeared.

"I went around the other side but she was gone. I hung around for a couple of hours thinking she had run off and would come back but I couldn't find her.

"I went back home and put a post on social media and people started phoning up left, right, and center offering to help look for her. From about 5 pm until after midnight, about 70 people were out looking for her with torches all over the Rifle Range and Blackstone but no one could find her."

He continued: "Someone suggested taking a coat or blanket and leaving it where I'd last seen him in case she came back but I got up at 6 am the next morning and there was still no sign of her.

"I phoned the dog warden, the vets, put up posts online and then I thought to myself, she must still be in that hedgerow. I went back with a shovel and phoned a mate who works down the drains and he came and put a camera down a rabbit hole.

"It only went down two meters and still we couldn't see her, so I phoned my other friend who's got a small JCB digger and he brought that over.

"We started digging, we didn't even know she was in there, but I just had an inkling. Two and a half hours later - we were about 20ft into the hole and about 10ft deep - she just popped up out of nowhere. It was like a miracle.

He added: "She had been in there for about 30 hours. I couldn't believe it. I wrapped her up in my coat and carried her back home.

"She was shaking and shivering but as soon as I opened the door she ran straight into the house, tail wagging, and started eating and drinking. She wasn't injured thankfully. It's just brilliant to have her back home."

Duncan's son Danny shared the footage on Facebook in a later status update, captioning it: "Found safe and well 20ft into a rabbit hole Thank you to everyone, [there are] so many good people that got involved off [their] own backs."