Mama Dog, 2 Puppies Rescued from Canal

A dog and her two newborn puppies are getting help, after surviving for months on their own.

Animals Benefit Club have now stepped in to help the family of dogs, but for the past few months, they lived in a trash-filled canal.

Mom and her puppies survived on scraps of food.

"They're in fairly good shape, because people have been feeding them for the past couple months," says Andra Jeffress from ABC.

People who noticed the dogs but couldn't get near them knew they needed help. That's when they called the Animals Benefit Club.

At first its volunteers had little luck with the dogs. "They would go and hide because they were very leery of strangers," says Jeffress.

So slowly over several weeks, workers tried to get closer and closer to the dogs. "We did a lot of hand feeding to get them used to us, to trust us."

Club workers were finally able to get the dogs in an open cage after putting food inside. Now they're able to close the cage and take them to the vet.

Once the dogs are given a clean bill of health, they will be put up for adoption.

www.animalsbenefitclub.com