Jessie, a four year old Jack Russell terrier, is one of the luckiest dogs on the planet. When Jessie became wedged under two huge boulders while chasing a feral cat at Mt Beckworth, near Ballarat Australia, her owner wouldn’t give up until she was free.
Steve Porter, Jessie’s loving human, was out hunting with the dog when she became trapped. At first he and his son tried to free her themselves with the help of neighbors, but then they hired a hydraulic ram to move the larger of the two boulders. After $2000 dollars in costs and 100 hours of digging, their dog was finally free.
“We literally moved this massive rock millimetre by millimetre,” Mr Porter told the Herald Sun.
“When we pulled her out and unhooked her she just jumped up the top to where I was and jumped straight into my lap,” Mr Porter told the Herald Sun.
“It’s a miracle, really, when you see the size of the rock and the location and how restricted we were.”
“I think we all just jumped in the air and said: ‘Thank God’.”
Porters older son is a vet, and the family had considered putting Jessie down as things grew bleaker, but they wouldn’t do it without exhausting ever possibility. While Jessie was trapped they fed her scraps of meat, passed down to her at the end of a wire.
“Dogs are man’s best friend,” Porter said. “We felt we owed it to her. The easiest thing to say was the dog would die or we could say let’s give her a good hard go. And we did. We rallied together and we said ‘We can do this’. Where there’s hope there is life.”
