A dog is recovering since his rescue by firefighters after being impaled while trying to jump a fence.
Wilbur the yellow Labrador was impaled on one of the pointed spikes of an iron fence as he tried to jump to catch vultures in Gaston County, North Carolina, on Saturday, WBTV reports.
When his owner Mary Anne Dixon Hubbard came home, she saw what had happened and called 911 while her son helped secure their pet while they waited for emergency crews.
He’s never tried to jump this big of a fence or even attempted it,’ she told the local station.
‘We think there was a bench too close that he might have jumped on but then he didn’t make it and was impaled – the fence post went all the way through.’
But remarkably, Wilbur remained calm throughout his ordeal – even as firefighters used a tool to cut parts of the fence away to rescue him.
(Sourced from agencies, Feature image courtesy:patch.com)
