Take a look at the incredible moments Brooklyn the Dog is saved by rescuers after spending days in a wombat hole. Courtesy: Amanda Fleith/Storm Spotters Australia

DETERMINED locals refusing to give up when the experts abandoned their bid to rescue homeless man’s dog have been rewarded, digging the pooch out of a wombat burrow last night.

MORE than $70,000 had been spent on manpower and machinery as rescuers worked around the clock for three days to try to bring the 42kg bulldog Brooklyn back to his owner Charlie Griffith, who was living in a tent at a nearby oval.

After officials abandoned their efforts last night locals flocked to the scene and pledged to keep digging through the night.

Their efforts were rewarded when Brooklyn was pulled from the burrow about 10.30pm. The dog was taken to a vet clinic to be assessed and reportedly Brooklyn left with a wagging tail after being checked out.

Police, ambulance workers and firefighters were deployed to a bush track near Nowra where curious american bulldog Brooklyn had chased a wombat into its lair at 1am on Wednesday.

However, both the rescue equipment and expert tunnelling into the burrow failed to locate Brooklyn and the search was abandoned at 2.30pm yesterday.

NSW Fire and Rescue Superintendent David Lewis said he had never seen anything like the operation for Brooklyn in his 26 years as a firefighter.

He said he was confident the rescue operators had “done everything that is humanly possible to try to find this dog” whose strong bark had faded to a whimper yesterday morning.

Wombat holes were “complex” and “time-consuming operations,” he said, with the burrow a multi-roomed habitat off a 15m long ­corridor with an entry at each end.