A mountain rescue team says its members "didn't need to think twice" before saving a 55kg St Bernard dog that ran into difficulty descending England's highest peak.
Sixteen volunteers from Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team spent nearly five hours rescuing Daisy, who collapsed on Scafell Pike on Friday night.
The four-year-old pet was showing signs of pain in her legs and unable to come down the mountain with her owners.
The team sought advice from local pets so were able to assess her condition before lifting her off the mountain on a stretcher.
A spokesperson for the rescue team said Daisy was in fact a rescue dog so was "extremely placid and compliant".
"After a little persuasion and a bit of arranging the stretcher to become dog-friendly, and of course plenty more treats, the 55kg Daisy very quickly settled down with her chin resting on head guard, having realised that we were trying to help her."
The team arranged to rescue the dog immediately after Cumbria police contacted them for help.
"Our members didn't need to think twice about mobilising and deploying to help retrieve Daisy off England's highest," the spokesperson said.
"Having team members with their own pampered pooches at home, and also our very much-adored search dog, Jess, we recognise the distress that both an animal can feel and also that of their owners."
St Bernard dogs are rescue dogs, originally bred to rescue people in the Alps in Italy and Switzerland.
"She apparently feels a bit guilty and slightly embarrassed about letting down the image of her cousins bouncing across the Alpine snows with barrels of brandy around their necks," the spokesperson said.
The team said Daisy was the "perfect casualty" and is now recovering from her ordeal.
