When it's already dragging me down

The answer to her cry for help came swiftly, albeit not in the form she was expecting. A small blue-coloured bird appeared and began circling above her, offering some actually helpful advice. Inoki stopped her struggling, even though every instinct told her to continue trying to get her limbs free. It seemed to work, and even as the sand burbled around her she didn't feel herself sinking any deeper, but she couldn't very well stay there forever. Her head tipped back to look up at the bird, ears flattening back along her skull as it continued to speak.

This bird was correct, the very idea of laying on her side as she was slowly devoured by the wet sand was quite preposterous, but she didn't have much else of a choice. "You'd better be right about this," she grunted as she did her best to tip herself to the right, allowing her left front leg to wave in the air as she began to slowly work at freeing her left hind leg. The sand squelched into her fur and even into her fur, and she gritted her teeth as she twisted and turned her hind leg until it popper free. Well now she had two legs to use at the very least.

Another bird appeared, this time a hawk, and she blew a sharp burst of air between her teeth. Why were there so many birds about all of a sudden? Inoki nodded at the hawk, hope blossoming inside her at hearing a large and strong creature was on its way to pull her free. Even with half her body out, she would have struggled immensely to crawl her way to hard ground without getting stuck again. "Please hurry!" She wanted nothing more than to be free and able to walk freely again, and the thought of drowning in the sand was a terrifying way to die.

It didn't take long for an enormously large horse to appear, and she was so caught up in her despair that any of the strangeness of the horse went unnoticed, as her tail began to tap loudly against the wet sand where she lay. "Alright, if you're sure my teeth won't hurt you. And over that way, away from the volcano." Inoki motioned with her free front paw in the direction directly opposite from where the volcano lay in the distance. She was very thankful for all these wonderful creatures who were offering her assistance, and didn't want to think what would've happened had she not been found by them.