A dog is recovering from a serious injury after falling from an apartment building in Englewood and becoming impaled on a light post.

The dog, a female basset hound named Libby, fell out of a fourth-floor apartment at the Brownstones at Englewood South around 11:50 a.m. on Sunday and was suspended 20 feet in the air from the light fixture, said Lt. David Haenelt of the Englewood Fire Department.

The spike at the top of the lamppost pierced through the dog at the top of her left front leg.

Libby's owner, who declined to be identified, said the dog was home alone for two hours and jumped through a window screen.

Firefighters used an aerial ladder to retrieve the dog and took her to Oradell Animal Hospital with the help of Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, Haenelt said. The dog's owners were then notified.

No foul play is suspected, Haenelt said.

“I don’t know if it was chasing a bird or what, but whatever that dog decided to do this morning, it was its lucky day,” Haenelt said.

The owner wrote in an email that doctors expect Libby to make a full recovery.

"We are very, very lucky she is OK and that the Englewood emergency response was fast and brought her to the animal hospital," he said.

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