Kora, a 120-pound Great Dane, went missing from her yard. Her owner never thought to look up while he was searching for her.
Wes McGuirk had looked seemingly everywhere, but still he couldn’t find his missing dog Kora, a lumbering Great Dane that weighs in at 120 pounds.
He and his roommates, armed with flashlights, had been scouring their Nebraska yard and neighboring areas for about 40 minutes on Saturday night. Then McGuirk heard whimpering, he told InsideEdition.com.
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As he stepped forward to investigate, he heard Kora’s muffled cries again. But now the sounds were above him.
Kora is a very good hunter, her owner says.
McGuirk trained his flashlight skyward and sure enough, there was Kora, 20 feet up in the air, cowering on the large branch of a tree.
“I got a ladder,” he said, but he couldn’t reach her. And Kora, shivering and frightened, wasn’t about to move.
He has no idea what possessed her to climb that high, but guesses she may have been chasing a squirrel or a raccoon. “She’s a good hunter,” he said.
So he called the Cass County Sheriff’s Department, where deputies didn’t really believe him. But officers were dispatched and they, after taking a few cell phone images of Kora’s predicament, called the Fire Department. Firefighters, after taking a few cell phone images, called in an ambulance, a K-9 unit and a ladder truck.
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After much wrangling and plotting, a dog harness from the K-9 unit was put on Kora and rescuers slowly lowered her toward the ground, where a tarp was being held by friends, firefighters and other responders.
The harness snapped under Kora’s size and weight, but she landed safely on the tarp, with nary a scratch on her.
Though she was a bit freaked out by the adventure.
“I’ve never seen her do that,” said McGuirk, 47, who is a mail carrier. “Whatever she was after, it had to be something good.”
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