2 Dogs Race Off After Their Owner Falls on a Walk. A Deputy Finds the Pets Stuck an Hour Later
Zoey and Monkey slipped away when their owner fell during a walk and deputies spent nearly an hour tracking them down and pulling them to safety
Credit: Pinellas County Sheriff's Office/Facebook
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A Florida deputy rescued two runaway dogs stuck at the bottom of a seawall after an hour-long search
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The dogs, named Zoey and Monkey, escaped after their owner fell during a walk, losing grip of their leashes
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Both were unharmed and reunited with their owner after their unsupervised adventure
Two runaway dogs are back home safe after a Florida deputy spent nearly an hour tracking them down and freeing them from the bottom of a seawall.
According to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office (PCSO), the dogs, named Zoey and Monkey, were out for a walk with their owner when their owner took a fall and the leash slipped out of her hand, sending the pups off on their own. The dogs took off, and the sheriff's office was immediately called for assistance.
The pair ended up behind a gated business near Joe's Creek, where they got stuck and couldn't make their way back up the seawall. In body camera footage of the incident, a police deputy can be seen calling the dog's names before realizing their barks were coming from the bottom of a ditch.
Reaching them proved difficult, as the officer struggled to find a way across the water to where the dogs were.
"After nearly an hour of searching for access to the other side and traversing thick brush, he located them and pulled them up from the seawall," PCSO said in a Facebook post .
Both dogs were reunited with their very relieved owner, and neither sustained long-term injury or appeared hurt in any way. As the sheriff's office put it, the outing left the pair with a lesson learned: two dogs who discovered that "unsupervised adventures aren't all they're cracked up to be."
Cases like this are a reminder of how quickly a routine walk can go sideways. Officials noted that seawalls, drainage areas and waterways can be especially hard for animals to climb out of once they slip or wander in, particularly where the terrain is steep or enclosed.
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