Poor dog!

I wonder if the rabbit(s) were just beyond his reach laughing at him being stuck...

I think I've watched too many cartoons.
Original story is
here.
Dog trapped for 25 days until losing enough weight to crawl out
A pet dog was trapped underground in a rabbit warren for 25 days - until he lost so much weight that he was able to crawl out.

The well-fed Jack Russell called Jake was feared dead after disappearing into the tunnel chasing a rabbit.
Six-year-old Jake was just too big to scamper out of the narrow warren - and as the days went by he got thinner and thinner.
Worried owners Jill and Rick Thomas mounted an advertising campaign asking people to search for the Jake if he turned up somewhere on the other side of the rabbit warren.
And then after 25 days a slimline Jake scrambled from his underground ordeal - after shedding pounds on his enforced diet.
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