It’s a miracle: Dog falls 16 storeys, survives without any injury (PICTURED)

by Zara Mustapha

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A woman in Florida is still shaken after her dog fell 15 stories down an air conditioning vent the night before.

According to the emergency veternary doctor who attended to Susie the dog, the fact that the 4-year-old dog survived in the first place is “nothing short of a miracle”, and for suffering no internal bleeding or broken bones is “another miracle”, he said.

Susie’s fall happened when she and her owner had gone visiting a neighbour on the 16th floor of their high-rise building. After walking inside the apartment, the dog followed a scent into an open closet, walked into it and fell down the exhaust shaft, the owner said.

CNN reports:

She thinks a ventilation panel that would have normally concealed the breach was missing.

Timothy Heiser of Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue said responders “cut holes above and below the second floor to try to get (to her).”

He said a fire crew “eventually managed to get close enough to the pup to remove her from the shaft before she could fall any further.”

Caralis called rescuers’ efforts over the three harrowing hours “heroic.”

“I don’t have children,” the 68-year-old Caralis told CNN, “so Susie is my life, Susie is my family. They treated it like they were searching for a human being.”

An ambulance rushed Susie to Oakland Park Animal Hospital, where a waiting Ratnoff feared the worst.

“I’m thinking 15 stories, there are going to be multiple fractures, severe internal injuries or worse,” he said. “I was worried it might need to be euthanized.”

But Ratnoff said Susie was alert and conscious upon arrival, and despite some serious bruising, is expected to make a full recovery.

Her shaken owner echoed the doctor’s assessment. “It’s a miracle,” Caralis said Saturday. 

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