Mountain rescuers pulled a cocker spaniel out of a hole on The Stang
Freddie fell about 9 meters during Storm Boelo, near the border of North Yorkshire and County Durham. His owner said the dog was largely unharmed and acting like himself again.
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Volunteer rescuers from Swaledale Mountain Rescue Team pulled a cocker spaniel named Freddie out of a hole near The Stang. BBC News included the rescue in a Yorkshire roundup dated November 1, 2026. Freddie had been walking with owner Tom Hollingworth on the moorland ridge at the border of North Yorkshire and County Durham when he fell about 30 feet, or 9 meters, during Storm Boelo.
Hollingworth said the dog was largely unharmed and "happier than ever, just back to normal," and that Freddie would still have been stuck without the team. The Stang story is one item in a weekly collection of local news. It is this dog and this call. It is not a tally of the team's other rescues.
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BBC News, in a November 1, 2026, roundup, reported that volunteer mountain rescuers saved a cocker spaniel named Freddie. He fell about 9 meters down a hole near The Stang, on the border of North Yorkshire and County Durham, during a storm. His owner, Tom Hollingworth, said Freddie was largely unharmed and acting like himself again. The rescuers are a volunteer team. The story is this one dog and the people who got him out. It is not a count of every animal the team has helped.
- Why did Freddie need a rescue team instead of his owner climbing down alone?
- What should you do if a pet falls somewhere you cannot safely reach?
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