A HEARTWARMING video captured the moment a missing dog was rescued from a 20-foot rabbit hole and reunited with its owner in Stourport.

More than 70 people from the local community joined the search for 10-year-old deaf cocker spaniel Dizzy after she went missing while on a walk at Burlish Top on Sunday (January 3).

Owner Duncan Flowers put out an appeal for sightings on social media and was overwhelmed when a group of 70 people turned out with torches to help search for Dizzy until after midnight.

Self-employed roofer Duncan, 54, who lives in Stourport, said: "We went for a walk over Burlish Top with the two dogs on Sunday and we were on the way back home when Dizzy went into a hedgerow between two fields and disappeared.

"I went round the other side but she was gone. I hung around for a couple of hours thinking she had run off and would come back but I couldn't find her.

"I went back home and put a post on social media and people started phoning up left, right and centre offering to help look for her.

"From about 5pm until after midnight, about 70 people were out looking for her with torches all over the Rifle Range and Blackstone but no one could find her.

"Someone suggested taking a coat or blanket and leaving it where I'd last seen her in case she came back but I got up at 6am the next morning and there was still no sign of her."

Kidderminster Shuttle: Rescuers digging in the rabbit hole at Burlish TopRescuers digging in the rabbit hole at Burlish Top

Duncan had almost given up hope of finding Dizzy when he decided to return to the spot that she went missing.

"I phoned the dog warden, the vets, put up posts online and then I thought to myself, she must still be in that hedgerow," he told The Shuttle.

"I went back with a shovel and phoned a mate who works down the drains and he came and put a camera down a rabbit hole. It only went down two metres and still we couldn't see her, so I phoned my other friend whose got a small JCB digger and he brought that over.

"We started digging, we didn't even know she was in there, but I just had an inkling.

"Two and a half hours later - we were about 20 feet in to the hole and about 10 foot deep - she just popped up out of no where. It was like a miracle.

"She had been in there for about 30 hours. I couldn't believe it."

A member of the search team filmed the moment the shaking pooch was lifted from the hole and reunited with an emotional Duncan as onlookers cheered.

Duncan said: "I wrapped her up in my coat and carried her back home. She was shaking and shivering but as soon as I opened the door she ran straight in the house, tail wagging and started eating and drinking. She wasn't injured thankfully.

"It's just brilliant to have her back home."