Dog rescued after more than week trapped inside shipping container at Texas port

Connie the container dog had been trapped for more than a week (Petty officer 1st class Lucas Loe/US Coast Guard via AP)

A routine day of inspecting shipping containers at the Port of Houston in Texas turned into something extraordinary when US Coast Guard officer Ryan McMahon and his team heard barking coming from inside one of the thousands of containers.

“Oh, it’s scratching, dude,” one of the inspectors said in video they recorded as the team looked up at the container, stacked about 25 feet in the air.