Injured St Bernard dog rescued from England’s tallest mountain

'She apparently feels a bit guilty and slightly embarrassed'
Dedicated volunteers carried Daisy the St Bernard down from England's highest peak
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A rescue dog needed rescuing on England’s tallest mountain as the tables turned on an injured St Bernard.

Sixteen volunteers from Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team spent nearly five hours rescuing Daisy the dog from Scafell Pike after she collapsed while descending the country’s highest peak.

The team said the 55kg pup was displaying signs of pain in her rear legs and was refusing to move as she came down from the summit with her owners on Friday evening.

A spokesman said: “Having team members with their own pampered pooches at home, and also our very own much-adored search dog Jess, we recognise the distress that both an animal can feel and also that of their owners."

Daisy was lifted to safety on a stretcher
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He continued: “Therefore … when Cumbria Police contacted us about a St Bernard dog (Daisy), who had collapsed whilst descending from the summit of Scafell Pike and therefore unable to carry on, our members didn’t need to think twice about mobilising and deploying to help retrieve Daisy off England’s highest.”

The team said they sought advice from vets before beginning the rescue operation and were able to assess Daisy’s condition and administer pain relief before lifting her off the mountain on a stretcher.

Daisy was 'the perfect casualty', the team said
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They said: “After a little persuasion and a bit of arranging the stretcher to become dog-friendly, and of course plenty more treats, the 55kg Daisy very quickly settled down with her chin resting on the head guard, having realised that we were trying to help her.

“From there on, apart from the odd little adjustment, the evacuation was found to be not that much different to a normal adult evacuation which, of course, is the bread and butter of our team, which we have done hundreds of times before.”

St Bernard dogs were originally bred to help with rescues in the Alps in Italy and Switzerland but the team said Daisy was the “perfect casualty” and is now recovering from her own rescue ordeal.

The spokesman said: “She apparently feels a bit guilty and slightly embarrassed about letting down the image of her cousins bouncing across the Alpine snows with barrels of brandy around their necks.”

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