One day, while hiking her usual trail in the Angeles National Forest in California with her dog, Veronica Shea spotted something out of the ordinary.

As she rounded a bend, she noticed what she described as a “huge black thing” moving up the side of a cliff.

When she realized it was a dog, she decided to follow — and she was glad she did.

A Lost Pack

The dog led her straight to two more canines, all of them extremely underweight and alone in the wilderness . Convinced they had been abandoned, Veronica knew she couldn’t leave them there.

For the next several weeks, she climbed up the mountain regularly, bringing food and working to earn their trust.

“You could see how malnourished they were. You could really see their ribs. You could count their vertebrae,” Veronica recalled.

Her

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