Puppy may find his own way out of mineshaft, say rescuers
Efforts to rescue a puppy from a mineshaft in Co Cork will resume this afternoon.
On Sunday, a dog owner got separated from his pets on a hunting trip.
The four beagle pups were spotted at the bottom of an 80-foot mineshaft between Leap and Glandore.
The by members of the Toe Head Coast Guard climbing crew was tasked with rescuing the pups, and managed to retrieve three of them with a bucket and rope, while the fourth has not been located yet.
"With these type of mines, there's a number of entrances, and the dogs went in themselves," said Eugene Clonan, chief of operations with the Coastguard.
"Then when the owner was looking for them, he heard them, and there's one shaft which has an 80-foot drop and he could see the four of them down there,
"So they didn't climb down there, they obviously got in by another way.
"So we're hoping the other dog might find his way out through the other entrance."
