Dog rescued by lifeboat crew after falling from cliff near Little Orme

A dog has been rescued after falling from a cliff near the Little Orme in Llandudno.

A local lifeboat crew launched at 2pm this afternoon to the area between Angel Bay on the Little Orme and the beach at Penrhyn Bay to conduct a search.

Llandudno’s RNLI inshore lifeboat Dr Barbara Saunderson headed as quickly as possible to the location and began to conduct a shoreline search directed by the Llandudno Coastguard Team who were already on scene.

The dog, a black spaniel called Tug, was soon located but had fallen and become stuck between rocks above the beach.

Given the dog’s precarious position, the lifeboat helm left a crew member at the scene while reinforcements were picked up from the nearby boathouse.

The crew were then able to safely retrieve the dog and return him to his very relieved owners waiting at the boathouse.

Lifeboat helm Mike Jones said: “We were really pleased and certainly relieved to find the dog safe and well.

“He had clearly had a traumatic experience and was quite shaken.

“It was a great effort by the crew to extricate the dog from quite a tricky situation.”

Picture credit: RNLI/Alun Pari Huws Llandudno