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Animal Rescue Chase 
Feb 7, 2016 
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DOG VANISHES WHILE GOING OUT TO PEE-
FOUND UNDERGROUND 3 DAYS LATER!
Lisa Valkenburgh thought nothing of it when she opened her back door to let her 12-year-old German Shepherd Maverick out for a bathroom break last week. It was an ordinary event, something she’d done thousands of times before, but this day would be different. This is the day that Maverick would simply vanish.
At first Lisa was calm when she didn’t immediately spot Maverick in her Platte County, Mo., backyard, but minutes quickly turned to hours. Lisa called for him and began searching as a bubble of fear swelled inside her chest. And as the midnight hours brought a stillness across the neighborhood, Lisa just knew that something horrible had happened to her beloved dog. Lisa’s family canvassed the neighborhood for days, enlisting other residents to keep a look out for any sign of Maverick. No one had seen him. No one had heard him… until there came that faint howl rising up from beneath the earth.
Lisa and her family searched for Maverick for days.
“I didn’t give up,” Lisa said. “I had to go look one more time. I heard a faint howl five foot down and underground. There was my little old man.”
It took three firefighters from the Southern Platte Fire Protection District about 90 minutes to carefully extract Maverick from a roadside sinkhole where he’d been buried alive. They had to work carefully to avoid allowing more earth to slide onto his body and potentially suffocate him during the rescue.
‘They took shovels and they were actually able to get three firefighters to come from different angles and to shovel it out and keep the mud from compacting and compressing on him, to keep him from actually suffocating,’ Valkenburgh’s son Roman Alexander told Fox4kc.
The first couple of days were touch-and-go for Maverick who was severely dehydrated and unable to go to the bathroom on his own. There was significant concern that he had ingested a large amount of clay and that it might create an intestinal obstructions.
“Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers and thank you everyone for your kind words helps more than you know,” Lisa said on Facebook days ago.
But each day has brought progress for Maverick.
“Not out of the woods yet, but he’s drinking alot and he urinated on his own and pooped!” Lisa said two days ago, relieved that the fear of obstruction had passed. “Never been so excited for him to poop!”
The latest update reveals that Maverick is stable and on his way back home.
“Great news Mavey had a great morning!” Lisa reports. “He got up walked on his own and had a big breakfast! Blood work came back all normal! So momma is picking up her boy this evening he is coming home. Thank you everyone!”
Source: https://www.facebook.com/GreatAnimalRescueChase/photos/a.135..
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