How a 125-pound Great Dane gets stuck in a tree

LOUISVILLE, Neb. -- Firefighters have rescued a Great Dane from a tree in eastern Nebraska.

Owner Wes McGuirk says his 125-pound pet, Kora, probably ran up the tree Saturday in Louisville in pursuit of a raccoon or squirrel after surmounting a 5-foot-tall fence. McGuirk says he found her on a limb about 20 feet up when he returned home from Omaha. His efforts to get her down failed, so he called for help from firefighters.

One of them slipped a leash and harness on Kora and nudged her off her perch. The harness stitching failed as she was being lowered, but she fell into a canvas tarp being held by firefighters.

When Lt. John Hardy, a 20-year veteran firefighter, got the call to rescue a large dog stuck high up in a tree, he thought "dispatch was messin' with us."

But then they got there, "and I looked out my window and, 'yeah, there's a 120-pound dog up that tree,'" Hardy told CBS Omaha affiliate KMTV.

Kora enthusiastically resumed her ground-bound life, apparently without injury.