Helping Man’s Best Friend

You can always tell when network’s fall in love with a story… You can always read and watch when they cant get enough of a story and think you shouldn’t either. NBC 4 and 10 TV featured this as the lead on their website and both they and WSYX 6 ran the story within the first two blocks of their newscast. I know, I know, outside of a book, a dog is man’s best friend. (Inside of a dog, it’s to dark to read).

We have a happy ending to report in the case of a therapy dog that spent the past five days stuck underground in a narrow drainage pipe. Zeke the dog crawled inside an 18-inch wide concrete drainage ditch the day after thanksgiving while visiting his owner's parents house in Champaign county. Once inside, the family says Zeke had difficulty backing up and could not get out. The drainage ditch was buried four to six feet below the ground.

But Wednesday, Reynoldsburg-based private utility firm Dreier and Maller heard about Zeke's plight and lent their time and their 1,000-foot-long camera to pinpoint his location underground. The camera found Zeke alive and allowed him to be reunited with owner Sarah Story who had lost hope that he would survive. Story credited Dreier and Maller employees for giving up a day's pay to help the family they had never met rescue Zeke.