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Move over Red Dog, meet the Pilbara's new wonder dog, Shanny ... (ABC News)

A Pilbara pup is being hailed a miracle dog after surviving days at the bottom of a bin where tens of thousands of tonnes of iron ore was being dumped.

"It was a really good outcome, the dog was unscathed really," he says. "That was a miracle, to be honest, that the dog was still alive," Mr Burrows says. Mr Burrows describes it as the "craziest" and "most memorable" incident he has had to respond to at a Rio Tinto site. "That's the first time I've heard of a dog falling down a dumper." Travis Burrows is part of Rio Tinto's emergency response team and was shocked to get a call saying a dog had been found stuck in the dumper. A Pilbara pup is being hailed as a miracle mutt after surviving days at the bottom of a bin where tens of thousands of tonnes of iron ore was being dumped.

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