There is a party to attract the dog’s attention, followed by a drone to save the dog’s life.
Rescuers trying to save Millie, 3-year-old Jack Russell Terrier, had to hang a sausage from a drone to put the dog at risk of drowning.
The “crazy idea” arose after time ran out to save Millie from the invading sea after she wandered on the mud in Hampshire, England.
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For days, Millie avoided the police, firefighters, and beach guards, all of whom tried to find her and rescue her after she slipped on a leash on January 13, 2022 and ran away from her master.
Denmead Drone Search & Rescue was called by Millie’s owner for help shortly after Millie disappeared and was spotted in the mud near Emsworth.
But the swampy land made it impossible for them to retreat, so they contacted Solent Coastguard, who deployed their mud rescue teams. Mud Rescue is equipped with specialized equipment for crossing very swampy terrain.
The next day, Mili was spotted in the swamp again. After several hours of trying to find him, the “Coast Guard” and the drone could not find him.
On the third day, Denmead Drone Search & Rescue sent another drone, this time noticing it. They wrote on Facebook that he “looks very calm in the swamp.”
“We discussed the use of the cage, but it was quickly rejected because 1 cage goes 800 meters deep on the submerged mud, a 2 risk that could be countered by the Mill if we could not reach it at low tide,” they said. wrote
So they sent some volunteers on bicycles, but Millie left an inaccessible corner of the swamp. Millie walked only on grass, not muddy parts. After talking to several local experts, however, the team learned some bad news.
If he was not rescued within a few hours, he would “be cut off; the area where he was underwater was more likely to drown.”
“We had to think fast. One of the pilots, who was fully qualified for our drone, offered to attach food to the drone so we could try to get it out of the danger zone.”
The drone team quickly checked the CAA regulations and found that they had enough freedom to attach 2 ounces of sausage to the drone. The sausage was supplied by one of the locals living on the beach.
“The woman made them for us, we tied them with string,” Chris Taylor, head of the Denmead Drone search and rescue team, told the BBC.
“I would say she [Millie] was in quite a bit of danger,” Eliot Exhton told CBC As it Happens. “The water that comes back is a great danger to him, it’s a miracle that he has been around for so long.”
So they brought the drone to Mill, hoping for the best.
“We did not think it would work, but it worked,” the group wrote on Facebook. “We managed to capture Mili 300 meters to the safety zone. “Fortunately, he remained in the area, so we prevented him from drowning.”
Taylor said they were relieved that he had been taken to safety.
“If we had not removed him from the area, the tide would have come in, he would have been in danger of drowning,” he said. “It was something we had never tried before. “Sausages were the last resort because we could not reach him by kayak or other means.”
By nightfall, the team at least knew Millie was safe, but they still could not reach her. They will soon find out that Millie has slipped out of the road area again.
The next day, Mili was seen on the road, but rescuers had difficulty reaching her because she was seriously disturbed.
Eventually, when he was seen walking around the industrial area, the Denmead Drone search and rescue team asked his family to go to the area. Emma Oaks, Millie’s owner, asked her father to go, he brought his dog to Jasper, Millie recognized them.
He was spotted “charging his master’s father and his dog, wagging his tail happily like Larry,” wrote Denmid Dron. “Millie quickly got stuck in the car.”
For Oaks, he feels infinite relief and gratitude to all those involved in the salvation of Milli.
“It simply came to my notice then. “It was just fantastic to have her home,” he told The Guardian. And he’s not surprised that sausages played a role in Mill’s return.
“Millie really loves food, she eats everything you give her, raw carrots and cucumbers, but she prefers sausages,” he added.
“Meat is his favorite food, so hanging a sausage was the best thing they could do to tempt him.”
As for non-traditional equipment, Denmead Drone Search and Rescue says they can reconsider using sausages if the situation demands it.
