A Springer spaniel named Lulu was found Sunday -- buried in the rubble of a building that exploded eight days earlier.

Hearing her whimpers as he combed through the debris, Brian Holt, owner of the snowmobiling and dog-sledding business that had been housed inside the building, turned off his radio and began calling her name.

Through her continued yelping, he located her and, "after 45 minutes of frantic digging, we found her laying in a crawl space under 15 feet of rubble," Holt said. "She basically had a two-story building on top of her."

According to an Associated Press article, Lulu suffered mild dehydration and had some trauma to her left eye, and probably survived by drinking melting snow and eating food she found in the debris.

Lulu's owner, Brian Mislanski, had been critically injured in the April 19 explosion and remained at St. Anthony Central Hospital in Denver on Tuesday. Mislanski, a van driver for Good Times Adventures in Breckinridge, Colo., was house-sitting for managers who lived in the upstairs apartment when the building exploded.

Friends took Lulu to visit him in the hospital.