See images of Abby during and after the rescue. She was found lying in the middle of the main passage of the Tom Moore cave system.
The 13-year-old pooch was discovered on Aug. 6 in the Tom Moore cave system by a group of cavers led by Gerry Keene, according to the“She’s in the pitch black, and the poor baby wouldn’t even move for us at first,” Keene told the paper. “But once she had been in the light for a bit, she started to get energized.”
The dog, whose name is Abby, was found lying in the middle of the main passage and the cavers said she seemed to have given up. “The entrance is not inconsequential. You have to crawl. It’s vertical. It’s steep. There’s hardly anything to hang onto, and it’s very tight in places,” said Cave Research Foundation survey member Rick Haley.Haley was also in the caves that day doing an underwater cave or “sump” dive to try to connect one cave to another, according to the Southeast Missourian.
Haley said he and Keene facilitated the rescue of the dog and were able to put her in a duffle bag with her head sticking out.“We moved her 500 feet to a very tight, awkward, vertical climb, handing her hand to hand upward to the surface,” Haley said in a
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