A litter of puppies whose mother tucked them into a deep underground hideaway were recovered Monday after a two-hour dig by a team of police officers in rural Manitoba.
Members of the Rivers Police Service were at a rural property for an unrelated call late Monday afternoon when the property owner approached them about four puppies buried deep in a series of underground tunnels, Rivers police Chief Bob Futrell said Tuesday, reached by phone in the community of roughly 1,250 people about 225 kilometres west of Winnipeg.
The dog, which belonged to the property owner, had given birth to the litter about a month earlier and dug the hole for them herself, “kind of like a fox would,” Futrell said.
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