Fireman John Britto of Thondamuthur station after rescuing the puppy from an abandoned well at Kalampalayam near Perur in Coimbatore district on Saturday.
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A two-month-old puppy was rescued from an abandoned well at Kalamapalayam, near Perur, on Saturday by a team of personnel of Thondamuthur Fire Station and has found a new home on the station premises itself.
Responding to an alert by Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SCPA), the team led by Station Officer P.N. Anil Kumar, after adopting the male puppy, has also christened it with what they described as a befitting name: Fire, citing the ordeal it has survived over a duration stretching days.
In an operation lasting one-and-a-half hours, fireman John Britto brought up the fear-struck puppy, much to the relief of the local public who had been feeding it for the last few days by lowering food in baskets with a rope.
After inspecting the spot on Friday evening, the rescue team was sceptic about presence of the animal at the depth of about 100 feet as there was no noise.
After the SPCA staff confirmed the puppy’s presence on Saturday morning, the team came again for the rescue operation.
The puppy that had meandered from the litter nearby and slipped into the well had survived without fractures because of the cushioning by the shrubs and mounds of twigs at the surface, SPCA Inspector Balakrishnan said, adding that the hapless puppy had remained trapped in the well for at least four days.
The SPCA team had the puppy tested at a private pet clinic in R.S.Puram and handed it over to the Thondamuthur Fire Station after vaccination and ruling out fracture or other injury.
According to a member of the rescue team, the puppy will be fed daily by the personnel and groomed to guard the station premises during night time.
Published – November 23, 2024 09:03 pm IST