Earlier this month, Kuyu, a three-month-old Kangal puppy, got stuck down a well in the Beykoz district of Istanbul, Turkey.
According to Al-Monitor, locals then asked the disaster and emergency management authority, an organization usually used for earthquakes and refugees, to help. The group used thermal imaging cameras to check the puppy's location.
Beykoz Oormanların da 30 SANTİM ENİNDE 70 Metre DERİNLİĞİNDE ESKİ BİR SONDAJ KUYUSUNA DÜŞEN YAVRU KÖPEĞİ KURTARMA Ç… https://t.co/kOkVKaDIkM
Crews worked for days to free Kuyu. In the meantime, the story spread across social media with the hashtags #DirenKuyu – "resist well" and #yavrukopekbeykoz — "puppy dog of Beykoz".
Şu an bunu deniyoruz... #DirenKuyu
#yavrukopekbeykoz #DirenKuyu 😭
People tweeted updates about the dog, the digging situation, as well as pleading for more help.
#yavrukopekbeykoz #direnkuyu
şu taglere destek verelim hadi. 11 gündür kuyuda kurtarılmayı bekleyen bir yavru var. #yavrukopekbeykoz #direnkuyu
"Let's support this tag. There's a puppy who's been waiting 11 days to be rescued."
After 10 days with no luck, hope came when energy minister Berat Albayrak intervened and sent a rescue crew from the Turkish Coal Institute. The expanded rescue team then planned to lower a lasso down the hole to grab Kuyu.
@seecooooo hayır Buradayız
After a couple of tries, the dog was successfully rescued from the well on Wednesday morning. People were pretty damn happy.
günlerdir emek veren herkesten allah razı olsun. bu güzel anlara tanıklık etmek bize nasip oldu. direndi, kazandık!… https://t.co/o5gJaXtS9k
#DirenKuyu
The puppy was taken to a vet to get checked out.
#direnkuyu Şükür 😍🙏
The local fire station, who helped in the rescue, announced shortly after that they have adopted Kuyu. The puppy and its new owners have since appeared on TV and posed for photos.
@sucicegi
Orhan Kural, an animal rights campaigner and mining engineering professor, told Anadolu Agency that the dog's rescue was the result of "extraordinary, professional work."
Finally an opinion I want to hear #kuyu #direnkuyu
After the rescue, the hashtags were flooded with adorable pictures of the rescued Kuya.
Oh be😌😍 #direnkuyu
Way to go, Kuyu!
After medical examinations he was adopted by the Istanbul Beykoz Fire Crew. #faithinhumanityrestored 😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻… https://t.co/zb2AB8KChw