FW: [nokillcity] (CN, HK) Puppies help to save trapped grandmother

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Check out SPCA website for an update ...they have found these dogs.

http://www.spca.org.hk

" The two dogs, one mongrel & the other Collie, who rescued an old lady

trapped in a crashed temple last Wednesday were found by our team & local

volunteers. Both in reasonable condition.

The mongrel will be housed by local shelter & the Collie by worker at

temple. Once the temple is rebuilt, the two dogs will be returned to the

temple. "

 

 

 

South China Morning Post

Puppies help to save trapped grandmother

by Kristine Kwok

Updated on May 22, 2008

Wang Youqiong did not know the two puppies. But the two canine strangers

have become her best friends since they helped save the devout Buddhist who

survived 196 hours stuck between two giant rocks.

A resident of Chengdu, Ms Wang was planning to stay in a Buddhist temple in

the city of Pengzhou throughout May. But her month-long retreat was

interrupted when the massive earthquake struck the mountainous region on May

12.

The grandmother fell to the ground and was then swept away by an ensuing

mudslide. When it was all over she was stuck between two rocks, the

Xiaoxiang Morning Post reported.

Villagers in the surrounding neighbourhood had abandoned the area, so her

cries for help went unheeded, then the puppies came along. In the following

eight days, the dogs were her only companions. They did not leave her until

rescuers followed their barks and found her on Tuesday.

" Over the past eight days, these two dogs kept barking, and licked Wang

Youqiong's face and mouth, " the report said.

Ms Wang reportedly survived by drinking rainwater and by the moisture from

the dogs' licks.

She was conscious when pulled out and was able to give rescuers her family's

contact details.

The family was overwhelmed upon receiving the rescuers' call.

" I have been waiting for my mother's call. I couldn't believe a miracle

would happen, " her son Zeng Linghua said.

Ms Wang's amazing rescue came along with another as rescuers persisted in

their efforts despite ever-diminishing hopes for the survival of those still

missing.

Yesterday morning, a worker at a hydropower plant in Shifang was saved after

being trapped in a tunnel construction site for nine days.

Xinhua reported that Cui Changhui, 35, suffered several bone fractures but

the injuries were not life-threatening.