A tiny puppy survived a 30-minute cycle in the tumble drier on the
highest heat setting after being innocently shut in there by a toddler.
Little Sienna Edwards, two, was playing with her pet Penny when she
popped the Boston Terrier into the drum as part of a game.
Her mother Christine, 31, had no idea the three-month-old pup was inside
and her eldest daughter Megan, 14, turned on the dryer which was filled
with damp clothes.
But half an hour later mum-of-three Christine was horrified when she realized tiny Penny was missing.
She yanked open the tumble dryer door and found the baking hot dog
among the sheets, and rushed him up to the bath where she held the
limp pup under the cold tap.
Panicked Christine bundled her into the car and drove straight to the
vets where experts hooked him up to a drip and told devastated Christine
to prepare for the worst.
But miraculously the pooch escaped with just a burnt tummy, mouth and
eye, and after a two-day stay at the vets was back to her normal happy
self.
Amazed Christine, from Utkinton, Cheshire, said: "She really is a lucky
Penny now - an absolute miracle.
When I took her in the vets told me to prepare for the worst and she
really was on death's door.
I really did think she would die as she had been in there for at least
30 minutes, and was just limp in my arms.
But amazingly after two days when I went to collect her she was running
around fine.
She's sat next to me 100 per cent recovered and we just can't believe
it."
Christine only welcomed Penny into her home three or four weeks ago and
had spent the day running errands before the accident on Friday.
Daughters Paislie, nine, and Megan returned home from school and
Christine assumed the tired dog was having a nap in her cage in the
kitchen or lounging in the garden.
But unfortunately she was scooped up by youngest Sienna, who popped her
in the machine and shut the door.
Sister Megan, who was helping her mum out with the laundry, then turned
on the machine's spin cycle at the highest heat setting.
Christine soon started to worry about little Penny and after a quick
search of the house decided to check the tumble dryer.
"I had a bad feeling so went to check the kitchen and she was not in her
crate so I looked in the garden and she wasn't there either," said
Christine.
"I heard tumble dryer going I had an instinct she was in there so I opened it up.
I found her limp and panting with her tongue hanging out and feeling hot.
I ran upstairs with her and put her under the cold tap.
She was just flopping and on death's door."
They rushed to Birch Heath Veterinary Clinic in Tarporley where vets
hooked the pooch up to a drip and administered medicines to bring down
her temperature.
Animal medics filled two rubber gloves with water to hold next to the
dog in a bid to stabilize her temperature.
She was taken to Chester Gates Referral Hospital for expert attention
where she remained for two days.
But miraculously when a nervous Christine turned up to pick her up, she
was back to her normal self.
"The nurses couldn't believe it," said Christine, who lives with partner
Rob Ball, 31.
"She really is a miracle. I won't let her leave my side now."
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