A PINT-SIZED pup found it had no head for drink by getting itself stuck in a wine rack.

It took five firefighters to free Angel after her family tried for 90 minutes to free the Jack Russell/Springer Spaniel cross.

Owner Dawn Robinson, 32, said she and husband Gary, 36, had been frantically trying to free the pet by using a hacksaw but eventually had to give in and call firefighters from their home town of Crook, County Durham.

She said: "We tried all sorts of things from using a hacksaw to wetting her with shampoo.

"We even went to my friend's husband, who is a policeman to see if he had anything that could help."

The nine-month-old dog was a present for the couple's six-year-old daughter, Amber, and so far the little tyke has failed to live up to her name.

Mrs Robinson, who lives in High Hope Street, said: "She never stops, she is on the go all of the time. It is the calmest she has been in the whole nine months we have had her.

"She just stood there and let us get on with it. We were more worried than she was."

The family also have two bull mastiffs but it is Angel which keeps them on their toes.

Mrs Robinson said: It's hard to believe such a tiny dog can be such a nightmare. She is lovely though."

Neil Smith, from Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue, said that it had taken firefighters ten minutes to free the pup. He said it had somehow manage to drag the rack into its basket and it must have tried to climb into it..