"Calm down," Mike Dilworth told his camel. They soothed him by rubbing his head, kissing his nose and assuring him he'd be OK. Meanwhile, the Dilworths comforted their beloved pet. "It was hard work lifting and digging, lifting and digging," he said. They are like little sticks and they are all the way into the mud. "The problem is the legs on this animal are like 4 or 5 feet long and he is down in the hole and his legs have sunk into the hole," McAdoo said. The firefighters – and the Dilworths – worried Moses had broken a leg. It was tricky work that took hours, said firefighter Steve McAdoo, who help light the work area with a flashlight. The firefighters dug around Moses – who continued to voice his distress – so they could slip thick straps under the animal's belly and pull him out. Fire officials decided they couldn't safely use heavy equipment to extricate Moses. 1 descended on the 10-acre property, where the family also tends a small herd of goats, sheep, chickens and a pot-bellied pig named Sonny. Soon, seven firefighters with Clackamas County Fire District No. About 9:45 p.m., the couple called 9-1-1. The normally mellow camel's bellowing could be heard across the Dilworth's property. His long, skinny legs were deep in the mud. They tried pulling him out on their own, using a 4-wheel drive Kawasaki Mule but Moses didn't budge. Mike and Kim Dilworth, who've owned Moses since he was just weeks old, could see only the animal's head sticking out of the mud. Moses, a 1,200- to 1,500-pound Bactrian camel (that's the two-hump kind) got himself stuck in a sinkhole on his owners' rural Oregon City property late Tuesday. OREGON CITY - Clackamas County firefighters have revived one cat and five dogs after rescuing them from burning homes.
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