Firefighters had to abseil down a cliff today to rescue a dog that had spent three nights precariously perched on a ledge.
Owner Brian Waters said Tammy, his 11-year-old Jack Russell terrier, got into strife on Wednesday afternoon while they were out walking in the fields off Laurie Southwick Parade in Gulf Harbour on Auckland's Whangaparaoa Peninsula.
Tammy had been engaged in her favourite pastime of (unsuccessfully) chasing rabbits when she disappeared.
"I thought she might have been stuck down a rabbit hole, or worse," Waters said. "We were very worried."