Raw video: Pursuit results in multi-species rescue from Richmond, California cliff. Dog disrupts council members fire prevention efforts.
A rather unique story from Richmond, California. Peter Pan, employed by Councilman Tom Butt to handle fire prevention duties on Butt’s property, was being pursued at high speed by Sparkle. Both ended up sharing the same small ledge half-way down a 300 foot cliff on the shoreline waiting to be rescued. Peter Pan is a sheep. Sparkle is a dog. A friend of Sparkle’s owner, a human female, also almost became stuck when she tried to rescue the black Labrador retriever. The rescue attempt by the Richmond Fire Department was much more successful and was watched on TV by Tom Butt while he busy doing the taxpayer’s business at a City Council meeting.
Here are excerpts from a San Francisco Chronicle article by Henry K. Lee, who is not the least bit sheepish about inflicting some PUNishment upon us (ours is sort of the cliff notes version of the story, so click here for Mr. Lee’s full treatment):
“The dog and sheep, who were shortly before chaser and chasee, found themselves reluctant buddies stranded a few feet apart on a ledge,” Butt wrote to his constituents today in an e-mail.
Richmond firefighters converged on the scene and rappelled down the cliff. Sparkle, a black Labrador retriever, seemed eager to be rescued and was quickly scooped up. But Peter Pan went on the lam for a few tense moments, skittering away from rescuers a couple of times.
Finally, the sheep was snatched. All’s wool that ends wool.
Butt said he keeps three goats and two sheep on his property in the Point Richmond hills to munch on the fire-hazard brush.
