Puppy survives after 'flush' with death

[June 16, 2009]  LONDON (AP) -- A British pup had a narrow flush with disaster after his 4-year-old master decided to give him a bath in the toilet. Daniel Blair was quoted as telling Britain's Daily Mirror tabloid that he tried to clean the muddy 1-week-old cocker spaniel because he was muddy, and he flushed him down the drain.

His mother Alison was quoted as saying she thought the dog was dead, but a drainage firm using specialist camera gear was able to locate the beleaguered animal in a pipe 20 yards away from the house.

Pictures of the wet, frightened-looking puppy trapped in a pipe were posted to the firm Dyno-Rod's Web site and broadcast on British television Monday .

The company says the dog is now fine.

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On the Net:

http://www.dyno.com/dyno_the_dog.htm

[Associated Press]

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