Dog missing for over a year rescued from storm drain

Cookie, a dog first who was reported missing more than a year ago and was rescued from a storm drain on Friday in Bethesda, Maryland, has returned home to his family. It took Montgomery Co. Fire & Rescue and Police Animal Services about three hours to get Cookie out of the drain pipe.



Authorities later learned the dog is a Wheaton Terrier named Cookie, who was reported missing from Kensington in October 2014. How Cookie ended up in a pipe in Bethesda remains a mystery. According to a shift manager at Montgomery County Animal Rescue Services, Cookie apparently had a food source. The dog was not malnourished when he was rescued.



Early on Friday afternoon New York City resident Nick An, who was visiting relatives in Bethesda, says he was walking his relatives' great dane when the dog suddenly pulled him towards a storm drain. "I went over and I just saw a dog in there," An said. [It was] pretty beat-up looking." An called police, and soon after animal services and the fire department spent three hours rescuing Cookie. They say the dog was scared and refused to come out even when they tried to lure him with food.



Finally, firefighters duct taped a large ball of towels to a fire hose. They then slowly pushed the hose into the pipe on one side of the street, forcing Cookie to come out the other side - where officers were waiting with a net. Neighbours applauded the rescuers moments after they successfully got Cookie out of the pipe. The dog was then taken away in an animal services van to be treated. Although he was dirty and had some marks on him, overall Cookie appeared to be in good health. Later on Friday night the fire department said the dog's owner had been located.

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