Stranded dog rescued through sausage hanging from a drone

Volunteers rescued a runaway dog ​​from dangerous mud flats, luring it to safety with freshly cooked sausages strapped to a drone.

Millie, a rescue dog, escaped from a leash and disappeared on Thursday, January 13, while out for a walk in Hampshire, southern England.

Alerted by its concerned owner, the volunteer organization “Denmead Drone Search and Rescue” (DDSI) set up a drone to follow Millie.

After covering a great distance, the dog was stranded on mud flats that can flood at high tide, he told CNN Stefani Dennis, 20-year-old DDSI volunteer.

Volunteers began moving around on foot and in kayaks, trying to get close to Millie, a Jack Russell Whippet Cross breed.

Coast guards, firefighters and police also tried to help catch her, Dennis said.

But because she was so scared, efforts to get close to her would risk pushing her even further away and potentially into danger.

On Sunday, one of the volunteers had an idea: why not hang sausages on the drones and lure Millie to safety from a distance?

A neighbor helps — frying sausages

“One of the volunteers [chamado Dave] I said, as a last resort, why don’t we try tying a sausage to a drone?

“This was the third day, she was there in the mudflat for two days,” Dennis told CNN.

“One of the neighbors who lived by the beach came out and said she would cook the sausages for us. She was under a lot of pressure, she must have felt like the world was on her shoulders,” added Dennis. “But these sausages were obviously very tasty.”

The neighbor also provided the rope, and the team of volunteers began tying the cooked sausages to various drones, sending them in rotation.

“The rope was tied around the drone’s body and around the sausage to swing it two or three meters — it was very difficult to measure how far it was from the ground, but it somehow worked.

“People would walk by and not know what was going on, it was hilarious,” she said.

As soon as the sausage flew up and approached the dog, Millie began sniffing the air and trying to catch it.

Millie followed the sausage out of the mud flat to safer ground.

But her escape didn’t end there and she continued to run, eventually ending up in an industrial park on Monday, January 17, where she was reunited with her owner.

“I think we all cried, I was so grateful that she made it home,” added Dennis.

“The way the community came together saved Millie.”