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MOST people will do anything for their pets and this can sometimes lead them into trouble.
The alarm was raised when two men went missing on Monday during a bushwalk at Mount Maroon, Rathdowney, south of Brisbane, Australia,. It seems the pair, aged 24 and 30, had gone for a walk in the bush with their 65kg bull mastiff dog called Diff, planning to see the first sunrise of the year.
It seems Diff had fallen down a cliff and become stranded on a ledge and when the two men tried to rescue him, they became trapped themselves.
Diff managed to redeem himself a little as it was thanks to his barking that they were all found. Police had cleverly ordered a police dog to bark in the hope he would be answered by Diff – and he was.
The two men were rescued but police were unable to remove Diff from the ledge. He was safely tethered until a member of the Police Dog Squad was winched on to the cliff face by helicopter.
One of the bushwalkers, David Gibson, said it had been a cold, wet night but the men and dog were not injured.
"We ended up in a spot we couldn't get out of, we slipped,'' Mr Gibson told reporters. ''It was scary, very scary.''
The pair were well equipped with clothing and water, but did not take a radio or mobile phone.
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