--- title: Searching for Drugs, Police Find Trapped Puppy description: Police in Phoenix spent 10 hours saving a puppy they found trapped at a home where they were fulfilling a drug-related search warrant. canonical: https://time.com/4007038/police-drugs-puppy-rescue/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-21T22:06:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:23:43.418Z og:title: Police Searching for Drugs Find Trapped Puppy Instead og:description: It took 10 hours to rescue the young pup og:url: https://time.com/4007038/police-drugs-puppy-rescue/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6c074c6560e6c692/6988607735ba6f67b8c0ece2/puppy-rescue_gros.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: In this photo provided by the Arizona Humane Society a rescued puppy is reunited with its mother in Phoenix, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. 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Arizona Humane Society/AP  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Aug 21, 2015 10:06 PM UTC Police in Phoenix helped with a [10-hour rescue of a puppy](http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/police-rescue-puppy-trapped-in-sewage-pipe-after-10-hours/) after they found the dog trapped in a pipe at a home where they were executing a drug-related search warrant. After the long rescue effort, the puppy was extracted from the pipe and reunited with its mother. The Arizona Humane Society determined the puppy was 1 to 2 weeks old and a pit bull terrier mix. Officers also found two puppies that had died, and a grown female dog that survived. All the dogs were believed to be strays, the Associated Press reports. 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