A baby alpaca got itself into a tight spot while apparently trying to take a dust bath.

And the video of its rescue has gone viral, getting more than a million Facebook views in five days.

According to a post by Govin's Meats & Berries/Govin's Farm, a farmer named John grabbed a shovel to help a one-week-old baby alpaca from a deep hole.

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The animal had been missing for 24 hours, and the poster surmised that it fell into a badger hole while rolling in the dirt.

Apparently, the baby usually comes to feeding time with its mother, but Saturday it didn't show up with the rest of the group. The baby was discovered when the alpaca herd was found laying around the hole, the farm posted on its Facebook page.

Despite being stuck in the ground for a day, the farm says it is doing fine after it's predicament.

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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