WATCH: Drone Saves Lost Dachshund From Clutches of Coyote in Harrowing Video

The caught-on-camera rescue of an Arkansas family pet is going viral this week due to the dog’s unlikely savior: a drone.

Chris Laughlin, the owner of Natural State Drone Solutions, received a call from Jordan and Brooke Allen, a Morrilton couple who had spent days searching for their lost dachshund, Whiskey.

“The owners called me up and sounded pretty desperate,” Laughlin said in an interview with KARK-TV.

Laughlin, whose company uses drone technology to aid in recovering deer, deployed his thermal imaging equipped drones into the wooded area the dog was believed to be located in.

After four hours of searching, Laughlin finally found the dog among the brush.

“It looked like he’d been stuck in there for three days,” he said.

As captured by the viral video, a coyote has the little dog’s nose fully in its mouth– wrestling it and dragging to about the woods.

Laughlin acted quickly, using prop wash, the wind off the drones propellers, to scare off the coyote and save Whiskey’s life.

“It wasn’t really reacting too much to the light of the fact that the drone was there,” said Laughlin. “But when it felt the wind off the propellers it boogied on out of there.”

Whiskey was successfully returned back to the grateful Allens.

“There was no way that we would’ve found him without that drone. He [Laughlin] saved our family, he’s a part of the family,” the couple told KARE-TV.

Natural State Drone Solutions has begun expanding their services to include solar field inspections and real estate photography, along with pet rescues– a move that continues the growing trend of using drone technology beyond solely military sectors.

Animal tracking is becoming a more common use for drones, with even the Florida legislature beginning to employ the tech to defend against pythons in the everglades.

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