A New Hampshire community banded together to find a beloved stuffed animal that ended up in the trash. Earlier this week, Jake McAlpin accidentally threw away his daughter Charlotte's stuffed animal, Cupcake."I said, 'What are you looking for?' And she goes, 'Cupcake,' and somewhere in the back of my head was like, is that the stuffed animal I just took to the dump," McAlpin said.Charlotte's stepmother, Meredith, said she put a message on Facebook asking if anyone might be able to open the dump. Selectman Brian Monahan saw that post."I got a hold of Dan and sent him a screenshot of what Meredith had written and said, 'Hey, can we go find this thing?'" Monahan said.On Thursday morning in the rain, they went to the dump, using more than just their hands to dig through the trash. "The compactor compacts it very, very tightly, so at one point, Dan had to use the backhoe to actually pull trash out, which tears bags open, and my biggest fear was we're going to find it covered in garbage," Monahan said.McAlpin eventually made his way there to help."When I got to the dump and saw what was going on there, I honestly didn't think there was a chance we'd find it because there was so much trash," McAplin said. Monahan's wife was there and said she thought she saw it."Pulled it out, flipped it up to Jake, and stood there waist-deep in the trash bags, and he held up the dog," Monahan said.Dan Conway, superintendent of the Strafford Recycling Center, said, "It made us feel pretty good — no one wants to be without their stuffy, and the smile on her face said it all."Charlotte said she washed Cupcake and left her out to dry on the porch when her dad picked her up and threw her away. She said she'll opt to throw her in the dryer now instead.