Amazing Picture: German Shepherd Gets Stuck in Tight Spot
- Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:05pm by
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An 8-month-old German shepherd named Rebel somehow squeezed his head through a hole in an 18-inch block wall at his Desert Hot Springs home Monday.
Then he got stuck.
Rebel may have been chasing another animal or was just curious about the hole, said Sgt. James Huffman of Riverside County Animal Services. The dog cried and whimpered until a friend of the owner heard him and called authorities. The dog’s owner wasn’t home at the time.
There was enough room to manage a rescue without breaking down the wall and risking further injury to the animal.
One officer worked the dog’s head from one side of the wall, while the other officer worked the dog’s body on the other side.
Officer Palafox pushed the dog’s ears back to ensure the dog would not suffer during the rescue attempt.
Some minor nudging and roughly 30 minutes into the rescue, Rebel the dog was free once again.
“He let us know if we were pushing too hard – but he kept working right along with us,” Sgt. Huffman said. “He helped a lot. You could see his hind legs stiffen to assist in the direction we were going. He knew we were there to save him.”
The dog was released to the owner’s friend.
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Comments (81)
Slowman101
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 2:51pmGarfield is laughing, but I’m glad the puppy is OK. To bad Obama can’t get his head stuck in something small. Like a urinal.
Report Post »mrmikejohnson
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 2:37pmSomewhere there’s a cat laughing.
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 10:35pmThat’s funny
Report Post »bigdaddybernie
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 2:28pmShoulda’ listened more carefully to the dog whisper guy
Report Post »Jack007
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 2:25pmPoor Pup, Comrade Obama condones dog abusers, but could care less about puppy’s that get their little heads stuck in walls; the man is truly a *****.
Report Post »rbagala
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 2:22pmPoor little one. He looked so sad. I bet he is going to be a bit of a trouble maker. Thank God he was rescued. His next picture looked like he was saying “I did not do that”
Report Post »clarityrising
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 2:10pmThe difference between a dog and a leftist *******, is that the dog will learn from its mistakes. He will never put his head in that hole again, while the leftists will keep driving down a deep, dark hole until the day they die.
Report Post »catndahat
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 3:24pmAmen!
Report Post »AmericanLass
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 2:06pmGerman Shepards are smart, so……………..why ? What would make him want to do that ?
Report Post »catndahat
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 3:10pmAnimals have an instinct to explore–it’s part of survival–those that are too inhibited to explore won’t find food, mates, etc. They are always self-preserving, even while exploring, though…ergo Rebel’s ability to aid in his own rescue.
This is far different than, say, rollin’ into Sow-side coppin’ rock. and gettin’ banged.
Report Post »CanteenBoy
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 7:42pmHe’s a puppy.
GSDs are very curious as they learn and become the amazing animals that they are.
MIne got hit by a skunk when she was around eight months. Now she knows.
I bet Rebel does, too.
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 10:32pmDogs love to be able to see out of their fences……
Report Post »catndahat
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:54pmRebel made a calculated error and assisted in his own rescue–what more can you ask? Animals are, in general, much smarter than humans when it comes to survival and not killing off its own species at an exponential rate…kudos to Rebel and the decent humans who helped him. Imagine if the wrong humans had shown up.
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:35pmIn my neighborhood, animal control would be called, then the owner would be sited with animal neglect and cruelty, fined and the pet taken away. Of course I live in “lib land” NJ…. where neighbors hate your pets.
Report Post »FORLORNHOPE
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 10:05pmI hear you. A dog shelter is the Most dangerous place in this country for a dog to go. Fact; shelters kill dogs and the liberal states’ make it the hardest and most difficult process to adopt a dog. “Sorry but you are not good enough to adopt this dog we will have to kill it tomorrow…..
Report Post »mongobob
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:31pmGood job for a good cause. I love my dogs more than politicians. One particular politician I can think of in this situation I could imagine helping by out getting him a double quarter cheese every 30 min. with a cup to slobber in…. of course I’d pat his forehead with a hankie every day or two to keep the sweat down for his comfort. I’d sit there daily in my folding directing every activity while drink a six pack and watching his head bloat and turn a blue/gray.
Report Post »grandmommie
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 2:04pmJust wondering what politician you could be refering to, does he have big ears and a nappy head……….hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Report Post »bookofwisdom
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:28pmOh No. Poor baby. So glad the neighbor investigated and found him before he hurt himself. My mother’s neighbor left her dog on too long a leash one day and he jumped over a 4 foot porch wall. I just happened to hear him and went to investigate and he was hanging from the leash collar. I could not get to him and had to call animal control. Luckily a police officer stopped by and had enough strength to reach over the fence and lift the dog high enough to get him back over the wall. He’s OK now. Thanks to that police man. May God Bless.
Report Post »MozarkDawg
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:39pmWow, thank goodness you happened to be near enough to have heard and had the good sense to go take a look! Thanks for posting your happy ending story. :)
Report Post »crichton
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:12pmDid the police really need to get involved? It seems to me, a few decades ago, the neighbors would have taken care of the problem without the need for government assistance.
Report Post »MozarkDawg
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:37pm>Did the police really need to get involved?
*****
How many times is the Fire Department called out to rescue a cat in a tree? The call was made to Animal Services, not the police, a perfectly reasonable thing to do — there is a reason we pay for local services, you know. Neighbors may not have known how to assist the dog without causing him more severe pain and/or injury.
Report Post »Redsolitaire
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 2:23amMikey Vick woulda pulled the dog out of the hole for free.
Report Post »And then hung him, shot him, smashed in his head, burned….
Oh, wait, I forgot. Mikey Vick has turned over a new leaf. He
doesn’t do that stuff anymore.
Probably…
I’m pretty sure…
Eh…well… I hope
DeclareTruth
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:02pmOK, a dog gets rescued. That’s amazing (?). What’s amazing to me is that an article like this repeatedly uses the word “shepard” which only appears in Merriam-Webster as a proper name,( i.e. Alan Shepard, the astronaut) instead of “shepherd” which is actually the dog breed’s name – German Shepherd. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shepard The dogs were bred in Germany for the purpose of herding sheep, hence “German Shepherd”. Well, I guess if you’re gonna be the one in three that uses the wrong word, do it boldly and often, eh? At least they were consistent.
Report Post »wildturkeywatcher
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:09pmThank you for that tidbit of knowledge. I have been unaware of Shepherds at that level. It gives me another thing to be picky about – and I’m very picky – that is NOT politics. Thanks.
Report Post »Catherine A.
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:29pmShepherd = a dog bred to herd sheep. Shepard = an anchor at Fox News.
Report Post »DVT
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 3:31pmWow lighten up…You do understand the concept of slang, dont you?
Report Post »Eternal Lucy
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:58pmYes, please fix the spelling of SHEPHERD in the headline (the only place the ueber-lib trolls will see, when they report this to the animal rights agents as they sneer at The Blaze).
(I see you’ve got it right in the meat of the article)
Cute (and happy) story!
Report Post »temple62
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:58pmJob well done, maybe Obama and Micheal Vicki would have had a different solution for the dog’s dilemma.
Report Post »ilovethiscountry
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:52pmCuriosity may have killed the cat, but it got the poor puppy stuck.
Report Post »GENEBLISTER
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:45pmI’m a total sucker for stories like this. Full-grown humans- most of them aren’t worth the powder to blow them to hell. But kids or animals frightened, hurt or abused- or just amazingly innocent and dumb- totally shut me down. Glad the pup got a lesson in holes without paying too high a price.
Whooz learned from experience…huh….whooz the wiser puppy… Gooboi…dazt da gooboi…
Report Post »wodiej
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:21pmI’ll second that.
Report Post »Mirimichi
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:29pmYoung pups will get themselves into all kinds of trouble. They’re learning. I might add, learning the hard way.
Report Post »Maybe the GEESE Know More than the BEES Know
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 2:02pmi was thinking the same thing,….puppies will be puppies!
Report Post »Speak without Fear
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:28pmAwwwwwwwwww……..so glad they were able to free him.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:27pmHappy Puppy! Luv these animal stories…may be the only thing worth reading these days!
Report Post »missionarydad
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:26pmMy heart sank when I first saw the pic but am very happy that there was a happy ending to this story.
petestreet
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:24pmDogs are special,
Report Post »GEW
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 4:19pmAfter receiving some very bad news today, I thought I would jump on Blaze and see what was going on, and low and behold the first 3 stories or so were about someone dying. So….I was running down the stories when I saw this one. It actually cheers me up and it is a good story for once! Thanks Blaze
Report Post »Alvin691
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:22pmReminds me of our dogs. Man, are they dumb sometimes but we love them.
Report Post »wildturkeywatcher
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:07pmAre your dogs dumb or is it that they don’t have you properly trained yet? My guess is that it’s a training issue.
Report Post »americanfirst
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 2:19pmFair question – could you say that libs are dumb or are they just not properly trained yet?
Sorry – just had to get in on the collective humor of these useless posts!!
Report Post »Rich HOffman
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:12pmWow, poor dog. Must of scared the crap out of him.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 5:38pmCrap rhymes with rap, and we all know who listens to rap!
RICH HOFFMAN MAKES BASELESS RACIST REMARKS ON BASELESS GLENN BECK WEBSITE AND NOBODY BASELESSLY CALLS HIM OUT ON IT!
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:11pmIts a dog – how can the darn dog be prepared!!! http://maboulette.wordpress.com
Report Post »cubber
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:14pmHe can be prepared to eat your cat.
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:51pmHey WALKWITHME,
How have you prepared? Ya dill weed trolling lib ass hat, union employee. Harsh
YoungAndReckless
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:51pmWhy couldn‘t they have shown a picture of the hole AFTER the dog’s head was removed? That’s what I was really interested in seeing, because the first pic makes it look like this dog has some sort of super power that allows him to pass through solid cinderblock…
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 2:50pmYougandreckless
Actually the dog was a survivor of the Philidephia Experiment.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 9:40pmWALKWITHME1966 he could be prepared to chew up a few huffy posting libs……….
Report Post »eteme
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 10:12pmYoungandrestless…hummmm….isn’t that just timely.. Another brick in our walls of the box we find ourselves in time to time. Some enjoy passing though the walls and sometimes get stuck. We all need help when we get stuck don’t we?!? However, when we move through the walls we must admit when we are stuck and help those that r there to help us, much like this pup did…
Report Post »cubber
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:06pmDon‘t stick your nose where it doesn’t belong. BE PREPARED.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:08pmNice story; and I guess the dog now lives up to his name of “Rebel” indeed. Just glad their pet was not a gorilla named ‘curious george’ (he already lives in the White House.)
cubber
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:11pm@snowleopard – But who is the man in the yellow hat???
Report Post »OOBFD235
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:25pmGeorge Soros
Report Post »Andrew.TX.
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:57pmStop with BE PREPARED i get it stop posting over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over!!!
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:59pmExactly, Soros is the man in the yellow hat.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:02pmWonder how much taz money was spent to get him out? Like the kittens in a storm drain last year that cost 10K to remove…
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 2:18pmWhat a ruff Predicament.
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 2:55pmBacon!!!!
TxGold
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 3:30pmI agree with Andrew.Tx. Enough already, we get it!
Report Post »joseph Fawcett
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 3:31pmI am getting very tired of thos of you who can take a great story like this and make it about obama in some way. Can’t you enjoy a story with a good ending like this without spoiling it with negative stupid comments about Obama and the democrats. For heavens sakes where is the joy in life if you are always finding fault and looking for it in places it does not exsist. How very sad a life you must live, may God grant you mercy and a lot of grace!
http://www.josephfawcettart.com western artist
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 6:24pmI guess I mis-read the headlines. I thought a Democrat got his head stuck in the hole. Poor dog, I bet he might think twice before he does that again. But then again, I have seen some dumb as Democrats that just keep sticking their heads back into the same crap.
Report Post »firstlast
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 9:36amYeah DUSTYLUV, probably should’ve ignored that 75lb dog stuck in the wall. No one would notice its skinking rotting carcass. I’m sure the children walking ot the schoolbus wont mind.
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