Llandudno lifeboat launches to rescue Tug the Cocker Spaniel
Llandudno Lifeboat launched at 2.00 pm on Saturday 21st August and made way to the area between Angel Bay on the Little Orme and the beach at Penrhyn Bay to conduct a search and rescue for a dog which had fallen down the cliffs.
Llandudno’s RNLI inshore lifeboat Dr Barbara Saunderson proceeded as quickly as possible to the location and began to conduct a shoreline search directed by the Llandudno Coastguard Team who were already on scene. The dog (a Black Spaniel called Tug), was soon located but had fallen and become stuck between rocks above the beach. Given the dog’s precarious position, the Lifeboat Helm left a crew member at the scene while additional hands were collected from the nearby boathouse. With the extra reinforcements the five-lifeboat crew were able to safely retrieve the dog and return him to his very relieved owners waiting at the boathouse.
The Lifeboat Helm Mike Jones was pleased to report, ‘we were really pleased to find the dog safe and well. He had clearly had a traumatic experience and was quite shaken. It was a great effort by the crew to extricate the dog from quite a tricky situation’.
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