Shadow, a Montgomery County dog rescued in a now-viral video, is lucky to be alive after getting stuck on a cliff in Blacksburg.
“We got a call from dispatch and they said they had an animal stuck on a cliff down at the rock quarry,” said Deputy Maven Ogle. “Low and behold there was a dog about 50 feet on the side of a cliff.”
Ogle and Chief Ray Helmick of Montgomery County Animal Control are just two of the officials who came to Shadow’s rescue when he got trapped at the Virginia Tech Quarry on October 11.
“I would assume he was traveling across the top of the rock quarry there, in loose rock and he slipped and fell down and luckily the ledge had caught him,” Helmick said.
Helmick said Shadow is an escape artist, and he managed to break loose from an enclosure at home.