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Earlier this week, emergency workers in the Russian city of Khabarovsk rescued a dog that had been trapped between two buildings for more than three years. When it was still a puppy, the dog was immured in the gap between a high-rise apartment building and a small grocery store, the Vesti-Khabarovsk television network reported.

Realizing that the dog wouldn’t be able to escape, the building’s residents fed the animal and kept it alive. Locals made multiple appeals to city officials, trying to save the dog, but the authorities didn’t respond for three years.

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