DOG AND PUPPIES IN A DRAIN

Evening Star, Issue 20253, 14 August 1929, Page 12

DOG AND PUPPIES IN A DRAIN

RESCUERS BITTEN AND CHLOROFORMED One man was overcome by chloroform' and another was badly bitten in an attempt to extricate a bog and her puppies from a- disused drain in AVanstcad Park, on the borders of Epping Forest. The drain, about ISin wide, is of brick, and emerges under a bank. The dog had crawled about 12ft along the drain, and had been there for about a week. She bail become savage, and had attacked other dogs. Mr J. F. Kendall, chief of {Tie technical staff of the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals, in helping to got the dog out bad bis thumb badly bitten, while the superintendent at the hospital, Mr Harry Gaunt, of Manorpark, was overcome by the chloroform which it was necessary to use to extricate the animal. PROTECTING HER PUPPIES. “ The dog, a fox terrier, bad gone as far along the drain as she could,” Mr Kendall stated later, “but f managed to get bold of her. She was halfwild, and flow at me, knocking mo down and biting my hand. It was not until we tried to get her out that we found that she had bad puppies and was trying to protect them. “ As” we could not get her out by crawling along the drain we had- to stop the hole with blankets with chloroform on thcin. Air Gaunt crawled into the drain, pushing 'the blanket towards the dog. He had almost disappeared—l could only see the soles of Ids boots—when I noticed that lie was tupping the top of the drain with his feet. “ I thought hi? was having trouble, and I took bold of his legs and dragged him out. Ho was very nearly unconscious, but be brought the dog out with him, Slio was unconscious, and wo bad to destroy her. “Although lie was feeling very bad as the result' of the chloroform, Mr Gaunt went back to the drain and brought out three puppies. ' Two bad died, but tbp third was-still alive. “ The clog must have been in the drain for some time, lor the puppies were about a week old.” Air Gaunt recovered from the effects of Ids adventure after artificial respiration had been used.