Family lost hope of finding missing dog. Then they hear whining from Oregon cliff
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A 17-year-old was rescued after getting stranded on a steep cliff while rescuing his family’s lost dog, Oregon deputies say.
After the family lost their dog during an outing, they returned to search for it, the Klamath County Sheriff’s Office said in a Wednesday, March 27, Facebook post.
The dog, a 3-year-old boxer named “Wiggy,” had been lost for three days, according to deputies.
As the family searched on Tuesday afternoon, they told deputies “they’d almost lost hope.”
But then they heard Wiggy whining from below a cliff.
The teen jumped into action, trekking “down the steep rocky surface more than 200 feet from the top of a cliff” to reach Wiggy, according to deputies.
In doing so, however, the boy got stranded “near the top of Hagelstein Ridge above Highway 97.”
Deputies said the office’s search and rescue team responded to help the boy and dog.
The team lowered a rescuer to the pair “over 40 feet from the edge of the cliff while still suspended over an additional 80-foot drop-off,” deputies said.
A photo shared by deputies shows a rescuer descending a steep cliff, while another photo shows the teen clutching the dog with a rescuer beside him.
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Using a rope rescue, deputies said the team brought the uninjured boy and Wiggy back up the cliff.
Klamath County is in southern Oregon, about a 130-mile drive south from Bend.
This story was originally published April 1, 2024 at 12:38 PM with the headline "Family lost hope of finding missing dog. Then they hear whining from Oregon cliff."
