By Associated Press - Tuesday, November 26, 2019

BALLWIN, Mo. (AP) - In a story Nov. 25 about Missouri police freeing a dog’s tail from a vacuum cleaner, The Associated Press, relying on information from the Ballwin Police Department, erroneously reported that the vacuum was a Roomba. It was another brand of automated vacuum cleaner.

A corrected version of the story is below:

Police free Missouri dog from clutches of vacuum cleaner



Police in a suburban St. Louis community were called this week to free a small dog from the clutches of an automated vacuum cleaner

BALLWIN, Mo. - Police in a suburban St. Louis community were called this week to free a small dog from the clutches of an automated vacuum cleaner.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Ballwin officers received a call that the vacuum had sucked up the tail of a Shih Tzu mix dog as it napped in a front room.

Police spokesman Mike Burgoyne says that when officers arrived they could hear a dog yelping, a woman screaming and a newborn baby crying.

The officers cut fur off the dog’s tail to free it from the vacuum’s grip. Burgoyne says the dog was shaken but not injured.

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He says the family was “definitely thankful” and that the officers put an end to “a pretty hectic start to their day.”

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Information from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, http://www.stltoday.com

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