--- title: Pennsylvania Dog Rescued After 2 Nights in 15-Foot Sinkhole description: After their golden retriever, Skye, went missing on Monday night, Ron and Megan Holmes discovered that she had fallen down a sinkhole. canonical: https://time.com/4229388/firefighters-rescue-dog-pensylvania-sinkhole/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-18T18:30:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:14.690Z og:title: Firefighters Rescue Dog After 2 Nights in 15-Foot Sinkhole og:description: "Both the dog and the owner were very happy to be reunited" og:url: https://time.com/4229388/firefighters-rescue-dog-pensylvania-sinkhole/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Firefighters Rescue Dog After 2 Nights in 15-Foot Sinkhole twitter:description: "Both the dog and the owner were very happy to be reunited" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Firefighters Rescue Dog After 2 Nights in 15-Foot Sinkhole > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 18, 2016 6:30 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 18, 2016 6:30 PM UTC After their [golden retriever](http://time.com/4216153/service-dog-has-adorable-reaction-to-meeting-disneys-pluto/), Skye, went missing on Monday night, Ron and Megan Holmes discovered that she had fallen down a sinkhole near the Penn State Arboretum. Skye’s owners had first lost track of her when Megan let her off her leash while on a walk during a snowstorm, according to the [Centre Daily Times](http://www.centredaily.com/news/local/community/state-college/article60846217.html). “We understand we were in the wrong to let her off leash,” Ron said. “She’s so good about staying close, and all of a sudden she was gone.” The couple immediately began to search for Skye but weren’t able to locate her until Wednesday morning when they heard her barking from the bottom of the 15-foot drop. “Oh, it’s the most fantastic feeling hearing her,” Ron said. “I was so sick last night thinking she was gone. I thought she would have drowned if she was somewhere down there or suffered hypothermia.” **Read More:** [Watch This Emotional Video of a Young Boy Reuniting with His Lost Dog](http://time.com/4183204/boy-reunites-with-dog/) [Alpha Fire Company](https://www.facebook.com/AlphaFireCompany/?fref=photo) in Centre County, Pa., responded to the Holmes’ call and set about [rescuing the pup](http://time.com/4204621/quasimodo-dog-short-spine-syndrome/). After firefighters widened the opening of the hole, an assistant chief was sent down into it with a harness to help raise Skye to safety. “Both the dog and the owner were very [happy to be reunited](http://time.com/3991072/missing-dog-for-9-years-reunited/),” the fire department wrote on Facebook. Fortunately, despite spending two nights in the sinkhole, Skye was unharmed. “She’s doing fine, and the vet said she’s in good shape,” Ron said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4229388/firefighters-rescue-dog-pensylvania-sinkhole/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4229388/firefighters-rescue-dog-pensylvania-sinkhole/"},"headline":"Firefighters Rescue Dog After 2 Nights in 15-Foot Sinkhole","datePublished":"2016-02-18T18:30:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:14.690Z","description":"\"Both the dog and the owner were very happy to be reunited\"","url":"https://time.com/4229388/firefighters-rescue-dog-pensylvania-sinkhole/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Dogs","firefighters"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4229388/firefighters-rescue-dog-pensylvania-sinkhole/","name":"Firefighters Rescue Dog After 2 Nights in 15-Foot Sinkhole"}}]}] ```