Ed Cray and two friends were camping in the White River National Forest near Glenwood Springs when they heard a dog barking.

Later, the dog wandered into their campsite. Seeing that she was very thin, the hunters fed her some of their leftover dinner. While she wandered off back into the woods, the hunters worried about her and assumed she might have been abandoned.

Later in their trip, the dog, whom the hunters named Remy, came back and led the hunters to her den in the woods. Under a fallen tree were five, plump, squirming puppies.

Even though they didn’t shoot any elk, Cray said this was a perfect hunting trip.

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