00:00Is this a basket of puppies?
00:01This little boy has been leaving food out for the mom of these weak-old puppies.
00:06Before, his family called the rescuers to help this tiny family.
00:11They look young.
00:13Yeah.
00:13When the rescuers got there, the mama dog was nowhere to be found.
00:17Do you know where the mama is?
00:21Locals said that she's been a stray dog in the neighborhood for two years,
00:24but no one's ever been able to touch her. She's too afraid.
00:28So the plan is to trap them on. We're going to use the puppies as bait,
00:32which sounds really evil, but it's not.
00:36All right, we're going to use you as bait, okay?
00:39A blanket of puppies.
00:42They knew they were going to have to trap her, but they had to be smart about it,
00:45as they only had one chance on getting it right.
00:52If she steps closer in, then we'll drive by.
00:56Get in there.
00:57Go in there.
00:58We drive, it's...
00:59Go!
01:00Go!
01:01Yeah, she's in there.
01:02She's in there. Stop, stop, stop.
01:03How's it not going down?
01:06She's not in for a car enough.
01:08She's not in for a car enough.
01:09She's not in for a car enough.
01:10She's not in for a car enough.
01:11Wait, is it going to shut?
01:12Well, she's...
01:13How is it not shut?
01:14Where's the camera?
01:15Here it is.
01:17You guys, try to lower the gate.
01:20There we go.
01:22She came back.
01:25Very good, what you do.
01:27Once they got her in the trap, they brought the whole family back to Baja Paws rescue.
01:31They fed the mama, who's been so diligently feeding her babies.
01:35They gave her a bath and she was filthy.
01:38She was terrified, but she was letting them handle her.
01:41All of her puppies quickly found homes after they were old enough to lead their mom.
01:45Fauna went to a foster family where she was still terrified, but learned how to be a dog a little
01:50bit
01:50more every single day.
01:52What are you smelling?
01:54Her dog, Foster Sibling, showed her the ropes, showed her how to play with toys,
01:58and showed her that people weren't so bad after all.
02:01It took a village to come together to save this tiny family.
02:04From the little boy who was feeding them in the very beginning, to the rescuers who expertly knew how to
02:09trap her, and to the foster family, who came together to show her that life wasn't so scary.
02:14For more information, visit www.fema.gov.au
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