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San Diego County Services Officer Britney Myers plunged into a manhole in the community of Spring Valley on Monday morning to rescue a trapped poodle.<\/p>\n
(San Diego County Animal Services)<\/p>\n
Myers swaddled the dog in the towel and passed her to Raygosa, who lifted the poodle out of the depths.<\/p>\n
The dog was transported to an animal shelter in nearby Bonita.<\/p>\n
Shelter personnel said the dog appeared underweight and hungry. Her \u201cdirty coat,\u201d according to shelter personnel, suggested to them that she had been lost for some time.<\/p>\n
At the shelter, the female dog was cleaned, fed, vaccinated and checked for a microchip, according to county animal services staff.<\/p>\n
While the dog recuperated, a woman arrived at the shelter later that day to report that her dog, Teddy, had been missing for more than a month.<\/p>\n
She told shelter officials that she and her family had been scouring the neighborhood, including posting fliers and contacting local dog rescues.<\/p>\n
Shelter officials matched the information that she provided and confirmed that they had just rescued her dog.<\/p>\n
An initially withdrawn Teddy howled and wagged her tail upon seeing her owner, according to shelter officials. The grateful owner, who thanked shelter personnel for their efforts, took Teddy home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dog named Teddy who had been missing from her Southern California home for more than 30 days…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44349,21019,7,9,8,217,2899,42096,171392,51836,83800,3335,1831,171394,171393,171391,15851,24857],"class_list":["post-431266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-a-m-monday","tag-animal-shelter","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-day","tag-dog","tag-drain","tag-georgina-raygosa","tag-lt","tag-myers","tag-official","tag-owner","tag-poodle","tag-san-diego-animal-services","tag-shelter-personnel","tag-teddy","tag-towel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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