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Rebel Without a Clue: Dog Gets Stuck in Wall

Dec 29, 2010 – 1:44 PM
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They call him Rebel, but everyone's without a clue about why the 8-month-old German shepherd poked his head through a hole in a wall and got stuck.

Happily, in this case, curiosity didn't kill the dog. It took rescuers in Desert Hot Springs, Calif., about 30 minutes Monday to free the forlorn-looking pup from the 18-inch hole, the Los Angeles Times reported

Rebel's owners weren't home at the time, and a neighbor heard the dog whimpering and called for help, authorities said.

Riverside County Animal Services officers got on both sides of the wall and managed to extricate Rebel. The dog helped the officers by stiffening his hind legs as they pulled him out, Sgt. James Huffman told the newspaper.

"Somehow he got in through there, so we knew we could get him out," Huffman said, according to Fox News.

The predicament recalled that of a horse named Gracie, who got stuck in a tree in Pullman, W.Va., in 2008. The owner had to use a chainsaw to rescue her.
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