Simba went missing on 9 June in a field with "hundreds and hundreds of rabbit holes"
A puppy thought to possess fallen down a rabbit burrow fortnight ago has click. Simba the Cavapoo vanished on a walk near Marlborough, Wiltshire, on 9 June.
After a two-week search involving the hearth service, underground cameras, a blood hound and a psychic failed, his owners were convinced the dog had died.
Owner Stephen Arnott said: "I'd even bought a plaque saying 'RIP Simba' so when he suddenly reappeared we couldn't believe it - we were overjoyed." Mr Arnott said that they had been walking near their range in Aldbourne during a field with "hundreds and many rabbit holes," and then the tiny dog was with them "one second and gone the next". "There are numerous rabbit holes, we didn't know which hole he could have gone in," he said. "We looked in every hole, it had been torture not knowing exactly which hole he must have fallen down." Image Copyright Swindon Community Bulletin Board SWINDON Community Bulletin Board Report After four days of searching and with "no idea where he was," Mr Arnott and his wife, Kathy asked a a psychic to assist . "She originally sent us on a touch of a wild goose chase but eventually, she said he's stuck down a hole within 120 steps of the front entrance ," he said. He said cameras were put down every hole, terriers, and a bloodhound were called in and then the fire service spent each day searching rabbit holes "but with no luck." 'Emaciated and weak' "We'd given up, he was only a baby, we actually didn't think he'd be ready to survive down a hole for therefore long," he said. "On Monday, I sealed up all the holes dug within the search because they were unsafe, thinking I used to be burying our Canis Minor ," But the subsequent morning, a "thin, emaciated and weak" Simba suddenly reappeared at the house. "We couldn't believe it, it had been truly a miracle. He was disheveled and dirty and he'd lost nearly half his weight ," he said.
"He's obviously lost such a lot weight he could wiggle out of the opening but he's tough we named him well - 'Simba the Lion'". Vet Lynne Gaskarth from Drove Veterinary Hospital said it had been "incredible" that Simba "survived goodbye underground without access to food and water." She said he had been "severely dehydrated" and had lost 1 / 4 of his weight .