A DOG in Hampshire, the U.S. has been rescued from rising tides with a sausage attached to a drone.

The Jack Russell terrier, called Millie, went missing after coming loose from her lead in Havant, The Guardian reported.

She was found stranded on mudflats near Portsmouth, with rising tides threatening to sweep her out to sea, prompting a rescue effort to swing into action.

Police, firefighters and coastguards tried tirelessly for four days to rescue her, but were left scratching their heads when even kayaking to her wouldn’t work.

The chances of Millie being reunited with her owner seemed increasingly unlikely, when a rescuer had the idea of attaching a sausage to a drone with the hope of tempting her to safety.

The chair of the Denmead Drone Search and Rescue team, Chris Taylor, told The Guardian: “It was a crazy idea.

“One of the local residents on the beach where we were flying from supplied us with the sausages — I think they were from Aldi. The woman cooked them up for us and we attached them with string.”

Luckily, the pork-dangling plan worked, with the terrier following the sausage towards her rescuers, away from the rising tides, to safety.

“If we hadn’t... got her away from that area the tide would have come in and she would have been at risk of drowning,” said Taylor.

(SD-Agencies)