This is a heartwarming moment a dog was rescued after accidentally falling into a deep concrete well.<br /><br />Buddhist devotees arrived for prayers at a temple when they heard the dog crying for help in Chonburi, eastern Thailand last Saturday (March 7) afternoon.<br /><br />They went to the well and saw a male mongrel dog stranded in the water below. The exhausted pooch was paddling around the shallow water, unable to clamber up the steep 20ft tall concrete sides.<br /><br />Residents contacted the rescue team and fed the dog while waiting for help to arrive.<br /><br />Rescue volunteers dropped a lasso down into the water hook the dog's body, but it kept wriggling through the water hyacinths.<br /><br />The team spent half an hour before they could hook the hapless dog and drag him up to safety. The locals were delighted and brought food to revitalise him.<br /><br />Khun Nathacnon, one of the rescuers, said: "When the dog was lifted up to the ground he appeared to be exhausted from paddling through the water.<br /><br />"We are happy that we could save him in time as I think he would soon have been worn out and collapsed. If that happened he could have drowned. It's always good to be able to save lives of animals.''
