A dog had a lucky escape on Monday afternoon after plunging over cliffs and onto a beach below.
Ben, a 13-year old deaf cross-breed Collie, was walking with his owners on the cliff path at Lodge Valley, New Hedges, when in his doggy mind he saw something worth chasing and ran off straight over the cliff edge and onto the slab scree 60-foot cliffs.
He slipped and slithered down the rocks, ending up on the inaccessible beach below.
His distressed owners called the coastguard and Tenby Coastguard Rescue Team were tasked, together with the resort's RNLI inshore lifeboat crew.
A lifeboat crewman waded ashore and pacified the friendly dog, which had injured its paw in the fall, while the coastguard crew set-up their cliff rescue ropes and went down onto the beach.
Once there, the dog was attached to the ropes in a way that he could be 'walked' back up the cliffs with the assistance of the coastguard rope man, and in a way not to aggravate the injury to his paw.
Ben was reunited with his relieved owners, on holiday from Leyland, Lancashire, and taken to a local vet for his paw to be tended to.