Here's that dog plucked from a storm drain...officers say the dogs exhausted and stressed but seems ok
— Kate Ryan (@KateRyan海角精品黑料) Why neighbors say this dog, Leonardo, is a hero..
— Kate Ryan (@KateRyan海角精品黑料) Next up: this pup gets rest, evaluated and checked for microchip by moco animal services
— Kate Ryan (@KateRyan海角精品黑料) Officer Lavonia Byrd on final strategy to help pluck a panicky pup from a storm drain
— Kate Ryan (@KateRyan海角精品黑料) This big guy helped find a dog in trouble...!
— Kate Ryan (@KateRyan海角精品黑料) 
WASHINGTON 鈥� Montgomery County Animal Services’ rescue crews worked for hours to get a 30-pound dog out of a storm drain Friday, and their hard work paid off.
A neighbor was walking his dog, a Great Dane named Leonardo, Friday around 2 p.m. when the dog stopped to check out a storm drain on Lonesome Pine Lane in Bethesda, Maryland. That’s when the dog and its owner spotted another pup in the storm drain.
The dog, a 1-year-old Wheaton Terrier named Cookie, was trapped in the drain.
It took Montgomery County Fire & Rescue聽teams two hours to remove the bars from the storm drain, throw a net over the panicked pooch and pluck him from the drain.
Officer Lavonia Byrd with Montgomery County Animal Services lifted the dog out.
鈥淚t was very rewarding because if they hadn鈥檛 called, who knows how long he would have survived down there,鈥� she said.
Animal Services evaluated the dog, who checked out OK, and gave him a microchip.
Cookie had been missing since October 2014. The owner has been located, identified and will pick up the dog, says Pete Piringer,聽Montgomery County Fire & Rescue spokesman.
Piringer says it is believed聽the dog entered the storm drain through a pipe at a nearby construction site.
Watch videos from the scene in the gallery above.
海角精品黑料’s Kate Ryan contributed to this report.
