After 16 days of searching for their beloved border terrier Ruby, including contacting vets and police and launching a poster campaign to offer a reward, Tim and Judith Brown had almost given up hope of finding her alive.

Then Mrs Brown heard squeaking coming from their compost heap.
 
The terrier had becoming trapped under a rock designed to prevent rabbits getting into the garden. “It felt like a miracle,” said Judith, “I got the shakes, I was so overwhelmed.

“At first I thought I must have imagined it. Then I heard it again and I said ‘Ruby?’ I felt stupid calling for her because I thought it couldn’t possibly be her. Then the squeaks started getting stronger. When I took the stone away and found her, it felt like pulling her out of a grave.

“She was too weak and shaken to express delight. I carried her to the house and then she drank a massive amount.”

Ruby was thin and dehydrated but later that morning a vet pronounced her to be otherwise fit and well.

The couple, of Southwater, West Sussex, cannot believe how the three-year-old dog survived under the compost heap for two weeks.

Ruby was a 40th wedding anniversary present from their children, hence the name.

What made the dog’s disappearance even worse for the Browns was that their nine-year-old Labrador Assumpter had been diagnosed with terminal cancer.

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