ok so i am on my way back to my office in kazakhstan ..each side of the road we have sorm drains ..vertical sides...6 feet deep 3 feet accross ...two 12 inch concrete pipes run from each storm drain under the road and connect to the drain on the other side......i could hear some yelping and looked and saw a small puppy only a few weeks old ( they are ferrel dogs here and terrified of humans ) had fallen into the drain and could not get out....i could not get in as everytime i went near it ran into the pipe......i have laid a plank in the drain at its lowest point where a step is cut out of teh side at about 3 feet high ....to act as a ramp .....went back the puppy is still in teh drain and yowling , very disstressed and disstressing for me as a dog owner to hear it crying for its mum......i hav etried enticing it out with food but no way its coming out of the pipe while im there ......cant see how to help it if it wont help itself ...do i let nature take its course ?? or does anyone have any bright ideas......

I had a very similar situation with a pair of 2 week old kittens that kept running under a nearby car in a garage.

 

There's no way about it other than just stand with your legs either side of the pipe and leave some food out. Try calling it without showing you're there and when it does pop itself out of the 12" pipe then grab it before it can get away.

 

Patience is the key :(

ill give it a whirl mate ...might need more than me though its a fast little bugger :)

is there no way you can snare it? Sounds harsh, but if you can get some kind of a snare on it's legs or something, it may be uncomfortable for it for a few seconds when you pull it out, but if your quick, no harm done...

As said above really, if it does come out when you're 'not there' you could bodge together a restraint pole... a loose noose which you can tighten by pushing the knot with a pole. Cruel to be kind, but once you've got it on a rope you could pull it out if it goes into the pipe again.

there's no way of getting someone else on the other side and asking them to use an air horn or something to make a noise and scare it out your end of the pipe?

 

One option is as it comes out of the tunnel quickly put a piece of card/wood sheeting over the hole and stop it getting back down there? You could even do this by lowering the wood/plastic/card over the hole with some cord?

that sounds like a plan it was still there when we left work so if its tsill in the same spot in the morning thats what ill do ..need to make sure it cant get back in the pipe ..we have some plastic double ply sheet used for conservatory roofs that we can lower in frontof both pipes at once and hopefully catch it in a sack as it bolts out ...air horn we have in the cars for winter use incase we are trapped in a blizzard and need to raise an alarm....i will let you know how we get on ..with a bit of luck it might have used the plank when we get back anyway .....fingers crossed...just hate to see animals suffer like that ,..

could always get some drain rods and a ballon and push them through till the little bugger runs out the other side. either that or send a terrier down there

see if you can lower a holdall or similar down the hole , full of chicken . when it gets in for a feed yank the little bugger up and out .

got it out this morning ..before the safety man arrived at site i came in early at 6:30 ..put some piroshki ( its like a flat greasy meat pasty ) on the end of the plank i had put in, somemore in the middle and somemore scattered inside the ditch....stood well back and watched ..only a few minutes and a little black nose twiched out the pipe ....must hav ebeen starving cos it went straight for the food and wolfed it down.....i dont think it even knew it was n a narrow plank 6 feet over the ditch ...it just came to the top eat what was there and casualy just stepped off onto the grass and walked off ...didnt even look back the ungratefull little sh*t :) glad its sorted though

got it out this morning ..before the safety man arrived at site i came in early at 6:30 ..put some piroshki ( its like a flat greasy meat pasty ) on the end of the plank i had put in, somemore in the middle and somemore scattered inside the ditch....stood well back and watched ..only a few minutes and a little black nose twiched out the pipe ....must hav ebeen starving cos it went straight for the food and wolfed it down.....i dont think it even knew it was n a narrow plank 6 feet over the ditch ...it just came to the top eat what was there and casualy just stepped off onto the grass and walked off ...didnt even look back the ungratefull little sh*t :) glad its sorted though

 

Aaaaah! A happy ending!!

 

I'm still not happy about what you said about my engine bay though!!

 

Still don't like you!

Good work Steve :D

Aaaaah! A happy ending!!

 

I'm still not happy about what you said about my engine bay though!!

 

Still don't like you!

 

lol .......im only jealous mate !!