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Quantess

(27,630 posts) Wed Jul 18, 2012, 06:06 PM Jul 2012

Border Collie gets rescued by Coast Guard

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coastguard-abseils-down-cliff-to-save-1145352

Charlie fell off an ocean cliff. Look how happy he is to finally be rescued! Photos at link.

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Border Collie gets rescued by Coast Guard (Original Post) Quantess Jul 2012 OP

The British Lifeboat Service are pretty damned valiant chaps Stinky The Clown Jul 2012 #1

Wow. The story didn't say if he was hurt. Hope not, but it was a pretty sinkingfeeling Jul 2012 #2

So wonderful get the red out Jul 2012 #3

Stinky The Clown

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1. The British Lifeboat Service are pretty damned valiant chaps

Reply to Quantess (Original post)

Wed Jul 18, 2012, 09:30 PM

Jul 2012

In some cases they launch boats from the tops of those cliffs, down a roller coaster like track into the surf.

sinkingfeeling

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2. Wow. The story didn't say if he was hurt. Hope not, but it was a pretty

Reply to Quantess (Original post)

Thu Jul 19, 2012, 10:38 AM

Jul 2012

good drop.

get the red out

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3. So wonderful

Reply to Quantess (Original post)

Fri Jul 20, 2012, 04:30 PM

Jul 2012

My co-worker had her dog fall over a cliff here in Kentucky while on a hike. She landed on a ledge and didn't go all the way down, but the ledge barely held her Husky self. Search and rescue saved her as well and she only had a slight concussion.

I am so grateful people out there save pets too.

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