She told a local TV station: ‘People started calling me and when I went to the window to see what all the fuss was a about and I saw the little dog I ran upstairs and started knocking on the door but go no answer.
A dog that plunged from a top floor window of an apartment block in Brazil survived after a neighbour managed to catch it in a cardboard box.
Neighbour Clarisse Saraiva da Silva, who lives below, was alerted to the stricken dog and ran to her window to see it clinging to a shutter above.
After finding the owner wasn’t home she gave a blanket to the building’s caretaker to put on the ground below, grabbed a cardboard box, filled it with clothes and held it out of her window.
A video shows the heart-stopping moment the dog loses its grip and falls, before Clarisse manages to catch it in the box.
