A distraught pet owner has been reunited with her beloved dog after he was found trapped in a rabbit hole five days after disappearing.

33-year-old Sarah Mclellan was left devastated after her beloved dog Ralph disappeared while out on a walk near their English home in Haworth, West Yorkshire last week.

Mclellan and her husband then spent their weekend searching for the wire-haired Dachshund. They recruited volunteers; made posts for "Lost Dog" Facebook groups; and even had a woman create a website for Ralph – all to no avail.

"On Friday it was horrendous weather, it was freezing and we just couldn't find him anywhere," said Mclellan. "As you can imagine at this point your mind goes wild thinking, ‘what's happened? Has he drowned? Has something bad happened?'