Dog back home after painful encounter with gate

Fritz the dog is back home recovering from surgery after impaling himself on a spiked gate.

The wandering mixed breed was hurt when he tried to escape from his yard in the Christchurch suburb of Parklands on Friday night.

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Emergency crews had used the jaws of life to cut through the metal. Fritz was taken to the After Hours Veterinary Centre with a portion of the gate still embedded in his groin.

He had spent at least an hour helplessly caught on the 1m high fence before help arrived.

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She said the family would be sawing off the gate's pointed tips."I definitely wouldn't get this sort of gate again," she said.

I betcha that dog is never going to attempt jumping over a fence, and if he does,... well...