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VANCOUVER When Wade Deisman heard an unsettling barking sound over the weekend, he thought one of his neighbours got a puppy. It wasn t until the next day that he realized the noise was coming from somewhere on his own White Rock, B.C., property. As he was walking into the home he heard another yelp that sounded like it was coming from beneath the deck. I had this idea that maybe the story here wasn t that the neighbours had a new puppy, maybe the story here is that there was a dog stuck underneath my house, underneath my deck, Deisman said.
Posted: Feb 21, 2021 9:26 PM PT | Last Updated: February 22
Callie is a 10-year-old Cairn terrier who sometimes gets into trouble. (Tim Everson)
Late Friday morning Wade Deisman was in his home in White Rock, B.C, when he heard some barking and figured his neighbours must have gotten a new puppy.
Deisman, an associate dean at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, had moved to the Metro Vancouver suburb near the U.S. border in October from Abbotsford.
The barking was new, but he didn t think anything of it. Until he heard it again, and again, into the next morning. I thought, well geez it sounds like the puppy s having a hard time, he said. It s good to have a puppy but you have to take care of the puppy.