Blind dog trapped down manhole for two months reunited with owner

Two months after Meng Xiaoting's blind puppy disappeared without trace she had given up hope of finding him - until a friend read a story about the discovery of a dog down a manhole. The young dog, named Dou Dou, went missing in September while out for walkies with its owner in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. She scoured the area in search of her pet but he was nowhere to be seen.

Realising the improbability of a blind dog finding its way home without help, she accepted she would never see Dou Dou again. However, when her friend told her of a newspaper story about a puppy with eye problems who had been trapped for several months down a manhole in Shandong Province, she knew it had to be more than just be a coincidence.



'I immediately found the newspaper and from the picture I instantly knew it's my Dou Dou,' she said. Rescue attempts had failed because terrified Dou Dou reacted aggressively to strangers who tried to help him, but the dog had survived on food thrown to it by kind-hearted locals.

Meng rushed to the manhole, situated nearly ten miles from where Dou Dou went missing, and was reunited with her beloved pet. The puppy is currently being checked over by a vet but is expected to make a full recovery after its ordeal.