Gallery: Dog rescued 3weeks after tsunami

A rescued dog is held by a member of the Japan Coast Guard after it was transported from the earthquake and tsunami devastated city of Kesennuma to Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The dog, wearing a collar but no address on it, was found Friday drifting on the roof of a house floating 1.8 kilometers (1.1 miles) off Kesennuma. AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Reiri Kurihara
A rescued dog is held by a member of the Japan Coast Guard after it was transported from the earthquake and tsunami devastated city of Kesennuma to Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The dog, wearing a collar but no address on it, was found Friday drifting on the roof of a house floating 1.8 kilometers (1.1 miles) off Kesennuma. AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Reiri Kurihara
TV cameramen and still photographers aim at a rescued dog held by a Japan Coast Guard member after it was transported from the earthquake and tsunami devastated city of Kesennuma to Shiogama. The dog, wearing a collar but no address on it, was found Friday drifting on the roof of a house floating 1.8 kilometers off Kesennuma. AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Reiri Kurihara
A dog believed to have survived the massive earthquake and tsunami of March 11 and, also three weeks at sea, is rescued by Japan Coast Guard members off Kesennuma. Photo: Reuters
Members of the Japan Coast Guard rescue a dog after it was found drifting on the roof of a house floating off Kesennuma, northeastern Japan.

Published Apr 3, 2011

A dog that survived in a house swept away to sea three weeks ago by the devastating Japan tsunami was saved by a coast guard rescue team flying over an island of debris. Local television showed an aerial view of a brown medium-sized dog trotting around the roof of the house - the only part of it floating above water - before disappearing inside through a broken section of the roof.