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Quirky China: A dog is ‘saved’ from his home, a woman may have octuplets and a haunted house finds buyers
- The dog had fallen down a hole as a puppy but had lived there for six years after the accident
- A woman in China captivated the nation when she revealed she is bearing eight fetuses
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A dog that fell into a 50-metre-deep hole in southwest China as a puppy and lived there for six years was “saved” by local villagers and trained rescuers on Sunday.
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It took the rescuers two weeks to pull the dog out of the makeshift cave, and the project included transporting equipment to a remote mountain in Yunnan province, according to Beijing Youth Daily.
The report said that the dog had managed to survive thanks to water inside the cave and leftover food villagers regularly fed it.
“It is not yet used to its new environment,” a local villager told the newspaper.
The incident has gone viral on Chinese social media and has been viewed over 220 million times on Weibo.
“I am touched. The dog has such a strong will,” wrote one person.
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“I cannot imagine how lonely it must have felt in the cave. I feel so sad about it,” said another.
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