Toffee, a seven-week-old puppy, fell into a 50-foot-deep crevice behind a Huntsville, Alabama, home on Thursday. But just after midnight Friday — roughly 30 hours after rescue attempts first began — she was rescued.
The pup, who happens to be deaf, fell down the inches-wide space late Thursday afternoon. Firefighters, cave rescue crews, and plumbers all joined forces in the rescue effort, lowering nets, snares, and food to try to retrieve Toffee, as it was too narrow a space for a person to enter.
Finally, the moment came.
Volunteers erupted in cheers when Toffee was pulled out of the hole.
“This is a miracle,” Karen Smith, the puppy’s foster mother, told reporters at the scene.
The story quickly made national news — Huntsville television stations drew thousands of followers as they livestreamed the recovery efforts.
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“You all are heroes,” one Facebook user wrote on a local new station’s livestream of the event.
“Thanks for not giving up!” another person commented.
If you stay off Twitter long enough, you get to do actual human things like hang out with Toffee, the deaf puppy rescued from a 50’ hole last night. Safe & sound after 30+ hours in a limestone crevice. pic.twitter.com/Cg4EnlOkW7
— Cuffy (@CuffyMeh) June 30, 2018
Video footage shows Toffee wagging her tail as Smith holds the rescued pooch.
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