CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : ROSEVILLE : Dog Rescued After 19 Days in Sewer

A skinny and smelly 8-year-old beagle is back home with his owners after being trapped for 19 days in a city sewer. Marilyn Jackson said Diablo appeared healthy except for an infected ear and his weight, which dropped from 43 pounds when he disappeared to 19 pounds. “It’s amazing. He looks wonderful,” she said. Jackson said Diablo and the family’s other pet beagle had been running away regularly since the Oct. 17 Bay Area earthquake, but had always been found, until one day early this month when only one of the dogs returned. Repeated searches of the neighborhood, visits to animal shelters and newspaper ads turned up no sign of Diablo until another Roseville resident heard something that “sounded like an echo” of her two dogs as she was letting them run in an open field. After some investigation the dogs led Patty Miller to a concrete sewer hole in the field with the manhole cover removed. “I looked down and saw a little dog face looking up at me,” said Miller, who called the Fire Department, which rescued Diablo and called the Jackson family.