EDDIE the pet spaniel had a miracle escape when he tumbled 150ft down a cliff — and suffered only a small minimize on his leg.
Proprietor Rowena Adamson, 70, was strolling with a buddy on hills when she let the one-year-old cocker off his lead.
She noticed him stroll to the sting — then was horrified as he disappeared from sight.
Retired postwoman Rowena seemed over the cliff and noticed her treasured pooch mendacity immobile on the rocks beneath.
She mentioned: “I believed there was no means he might survive that.
“I lately misplaced my final canine and solely acquired Eddie in August so my first thought was ‘Oh no, I can’t lose him too’.”
Distraught Rowena and her buddy ran to a close-by North York Moors customer centre the place caretaker Paul Christie supplied to assist.
He rang the mountain rescue group then headed to Whitestone Cliff to see if he might attain Eddie.
Paul, 49, mentioned: “I seemed over the facet and I noticed a little bit of motion.
"We known as his title and I used to be amazed to see him transfer his head.”
He walked half a mile alongside the cliff prime to discover a safer place to descend and, as he approached Eddie, heard the dazed canine bark.
Paul added: “It was a noise that made me really feel so completely satisfied. I believed, ‘That is implausible.’
“I don’t know the way he survived. It’s rocky on the backside. He’s the luckiest canine alive.”
Paul wrapped Eddie in his fleece and carried him again up the cliff path.
Cleveland Mountain Rescue Staff arrived to assist him to the highest — the place they had been greeted by delighted gran Rowena, of Thirsk, North Yorks.
She mentioned: “I used to be so completely satisfied. He means the world to me.”
When she took him to the vet, they found the one damage he had suffered throughout his three-hour ordeal was a minimize on a leg which wanted a single sew.
Rowena mentioned: “I’m now calling him Eddie the Eagle for his daring exploits.”
Paul added: “Rowena requested what she might do to repay me.
"I mentioned educate Eddie to talk and let him reel off six lottery numbers as a result of I’ve by no means seen luck like that.”





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