Had to cut a hole in my dining room floor in order to rescue a trapped dog.
Last Thursday, while I was a work, I got a camera notification that there were two dogs who had gotten loose a few streets over and ended up on my back porch/yard running around. I was a little worried because I care for a colony of stray cats and didn’t want them getting hurt. I got home and my next door neighbor told me one of the dogs (blue tick hound) was chasing a stray, and had gotten under my house through the crawl space and couldn’t get out. He tried to coax the dog out with hot dogs, but it wouldn’t come out. My neighbor went inside and came back out and the dog was gone. Fast forward to Tuesday night. My husband and I went to a concert a few hours away, and my niece was dog sitting in the house for us. She said she heard a weird howling on and off through the day/night. My husband and I hadn’t heard anything up until when we got him from the concert. We would be upstairs and the howling would start, but when we would go downstairs to try to figure out where the howling was coming from, it would stop. My husband crawled under the house as far as he could, and we found the dog. We were able to contact the owners, an elderly couple, who came over along with the town police. One officer crawled all the way under the house to try to pull her out, but she was too big to get out of the spot she got stuck in. Really our only option was to cut through our floor to get to her. We got her out, and she’s okay. But it still absolutely baffles my husband and I that she was there for nearly 5 days before she made any noise. #fun source