A desperate, dirt-covered dog was dug out of a death-trap hole after being stuck there for days.
Four-year-old terrier Krakka was reunited with her emotional owners after rescuers heard him whimpering.
She went missing on Thursday 30 April and was located two days later in a warren.
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A company that specialises in finding lost dogs using a drone was drafted in.
The pet was eventually found Krakka buried in mud close to the village of Shiptonthorpe, East Yorkshire.
A video showed the moment the lucky pet was hauled to safety as reported by Need To Know.
A spokesperson for Drone SAR for lost dogs UK said: “Thankfully while on the search a whimper was heard which came from a rabbit hole where it’s believed Krakka, had gone into.
“The recovery bega by DSAR pilot Steve Priestman, ground searcher Jennifer Zarek, along with Krakka’s owners David Hudson and Glynis Elgey.
“They got to work digging her out which took around 25 minutes.”
Her owner, Glynis Elgey, said: “I was so excited when we found her and she was alive.
“The first thing she did when we got her out was give me a kiss.”
“She always comes back – she never wanders too far, and I thought something is stopping her coming back.”
After speaking with a friend, Elgey said she contacted Steve Priestman, from Drone SAR for lost dogs UK, which helps reunite missing dogs with their owners.
Priestman said: “We tried searching for her with a drone, but we couldn’t find any sign of her.”
After a day and a half with no sightings, he said they decided to focus their efforts on “somewhere less obvious”.
Elgey said it was at that point they came across an area covered in nettles and her partner heard a whimper and said it was Krakka.
She added: “So, then we set to digging – all we could see was a paw.
“We were so thrilled – we thought we would never see her again.”
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