Rope team rappels down into a rock quarry to rescue a mutt named Rippy

It was the barking that saved Rippy, a mutt that fell heavy into a moving stone quarry

NORTH CANAAN, Conn. -- It was the barking that saved Rippy, a mutt that fell heavy into a moving stone quarry.

After passersby and adjacent a drone failed to find the mislaid dog, rescue workers drawn to his barks rappelled down the pit's walls and lifted him retired 3 days aft helium went missing, according to a societal media station astir the saga.

The 30-pound terrier mix's proprietor reported Rippy missing successful North Canaan connected May 4. A section carnal structure got archetypal connection of the barking days later.

Shelter workers asked a unpaid to alert a drone implicit the Specialty Minerals quarry, but they couldn't find him. When workers astatine the quarry went connected a luncheon interruption the adjacent day, Rippy's barks could beryllium heard again. Quarry managers said they couldn't scope the dog, truthful firefighters were called in. Two members of a enactment squad past rappelled disconnected a cliff and captured the mutt.

“He could person been stuck determination since Saturday nighttime but nary 1 volition cognize for sure,” North Canaan Animal Control said successful a societal media post. “Rippy was caught and safely brought backmost up the cliff. I called his proprietor close distant who came and picked him up truthful helium could spell location to decompress, get cleaned up and past checked out.”

Rescue workers said it's not the archetypal clip an carnal has fallen oregon go stuck successful the quarry and immoderate person not been arsenic fortunate arsenic Rippy, who was not earnestly injured.