This is the moment a newborn puppy is rescued after being trapped in a pipe nine metres underground.
The tiny American Mastiff emerged unscathed following a tense two-and-a-half-hour rescue mission, during which rescuers fed down a drain camera to locate him.
A noose attached to the camera was looped around the pup and he was carefully winched to safety, as this incredible footage shows.
He had been accidentally kicked into an open gully by his mother while she was giving birth to the litter.
Experts from Dyno-Rod were called to a house in Hayes, West London, by fire crews who had tried unsuccessfully to reach the pup.
Moment when a little puppy got stuck under the ground and was tracked
A newborn puppy was rescued after being trapped in a pipe nine metres underground
The tiny American Mastiff emerged unscathed following a tense two-and-a-half-hour rescue mission, during which rescuers fed down a drain camera to locate him
One of the Dyno-Rod engineers involved in the dramatic rescue, Billy Stevens, said: ‘He was smothered in muck but otherwise completely unharmed.
‘His owner was ecstatic and was so relieved that we’d managed to bring her puppy up to the surface unharmed.
‘We were thrilled too that there was a happy ending because it was a tight squeeze and such a tense, delicate operation.
‘The mother had kicked out her leg during the birth and this unfortunate pup happened to be in the way and was knocked into an open gully.
‘He must have slid some nine metres down the pipe and was trapped underground.
‘The local fire crew were called out and had tried to reach him but were unable to do so and called us a result.
‘We fed the drain camera down and fitted a noose to it so when we located the pup we were able to ever so gently loop that round and bring him slowly and carefully to the surface.
‘The whole rescue mission took two-and-a-half hours and we could see what was happening throughout via a small screen.
A noose attached to the camera was looped around the pup and he was carefully winched to safety above ground
One of the Dyno-Rod engineers involved in the dramatic rescue, Billy Stevens (pictured), said the puppy was ‘smothered in muck but otherwise completely unharmed’.
The newborn puppy had been accidentally kicked into an open gully by his mother while she was giving birth to the litter
‘We all held our breath, and it took the little pup a Herculean amount of strength with which to claw his way up the pipe as we helped him.
‘We couldn’t rush it and just pull him up quickly with force because we could have dropped him and harmed him in the process.
‘The pup was exhausted by the end of it but there was a happy ending. He’s certainly had a dramatic start to his young life.’
The owner – who did not want to be identified – has named the dog Dyno in honour of his rescuers, who raced to his aid on September 28.
Billy’s colleague Luis Rendall added: ‘It was a huge relief and a real feel-good story.
‘We used the CCTV equipment to locate the puppy in the drain and using modified drainage equipment were able to retrieve him from the pipe safe and sound and return it to a very grateful owner.’