Fortune smiled on a puppy in Britain after a four-year-old boy accidentally flushed it down the toilet when he was trying to wash it, the Daily Mirror newspaper reported.
The week-old cocker spaniel’s young owner, Daniel Blair, thought the puppy needed a wash after it got muddy playing in the garden, so he put it in the toilet and flushed it.
But his plan went disastrously wrong when the animal was swept away and became trapped in a waste pipe for nearly four hours.
Firefighters and animal welfare officers could not reach it, so Daniel’s mother eventually called a plumber, who found the dog lying upside down in a pipe about 20m away from their house in Northolt, west London.
The dog — which has been named Dyno after the plumbing firm which rescued it — is now safe and well and back with the family.
Daniel has apologized, blaming his twin brother for getting the dog dirty and saying: “I had to give him a wash. I’m so, so sorry. I won’t do it again.”(AFP)
《每日鏡報》報導，英國一名四歲小男孩在幫自己的小狗狗洗澡時，意外將牠沖下馬桶，所幸小狗福大命大，最後平安脫困。
這隻出生才一週的可卡獵犬在花園裡玩得滿身泥巴，小主人丹尼爾•布萊爾認為該幫牠洗個澡，於是把牠放進馬桶裡，按紐沖洗。
但他的計畫卻造成災難，小狗狗被沖下馬桶，困在排水管內將近四個小時。
消防隊員和動物福利人員都搆不著小狗，最後丹尼爾的媽媽只好叫來水管工人，工人發現小狗頭下腳上的卡在離他們住家（位於倫敦西郊的諾霍特區）二十公尺遠的水管內。
這隻被水管公司搶救出來的小狗現在已安然無恙地回到布萊爾家。主人也以水管公司之名，幫小狗取名為「戴諾」。
丹尼爾已經道歉，但不忘責怪雙胞胎兄弟把狗弄髒，他說：「我得幫迪諾洗洗澡。真的非常非常對不起，我以後再也不敢了。」
（法新社�翻譯：林倩如）
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