Divers discovered Abby about 500ft below while exploring the Berome Moore cave system
recently rescued a dog stranded hundreds of feet underground almost two months after the animal disappeared from her family’s home.
in Perry county on 6 August. They alerted the local fire department and members of the Cave Research Foundation at the surface of their discovery about 500ft below.The lethargic animal “was not in good shape”, according to diver Rick Haley, a teacher and recreational spelunker,Haley and the dog, Abby.
While the operation was happening, another caver was knocking on doors with a photograph of the dog. Abby was reunited with the Bonner family, which believed their pet was probably gone forever when she disappeared in early June. Haley told CNN he believed Abby might have fallen into an opening while chasing another animal and sunk deeper into Missouri’s second largest cave system in floods caused by recent heavy rains.