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Zavaleta’s friend Dianne Newnan volunteered to dive into the drain as she had cave diving experience but things didn’t go to plan in Blaxland yesterday.
“He was distressed and it was distressing to listen to and you (Dianne) just wanted to save my cat,” Zavaleta said.
Newnan lowered herself into the drain with an abseiling rope but there was a huge hole in the drain.
“I fell down the two metre ledge and smashed my head,” Newnan said.
She managed to get sight of an uninjured Pushkar but the cat was just out of reach and was not rescued.
”He just sat there and looked at me,” Newnan said.
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“I have been in much tighter, I have been in spaces where I couldn’t move my hips.”
Emergency services came to Newnan’s rescue but she managed to climb out and went to hospital overnight to be treated for the cuts on her head.
“You are wonderful, I don’t know anyone who would do this,” Zavaleta said to her friend.
Pushkar is still in the drain.
Emergency services have told the group to wait for rain and he might then find his way out.
