A dog with a badly broken leg incredibly led a vet two miles to an abandoned car where she had given birth to ten puppies so they could be looked after.

The emaciated greyhound is believed to have been dumped by hunters and was discovered wandering around a market with a snapped front leg in Vera, southern Spain.

Psychologist Lianne Powell, 49, caught the stray, who is thought to be between two and three years old, and took her to a local vet for treatment on Saturday.

But after noticing the female dog was producing milk and must have given birth between five and seven days previously, vet Ellen Sobry and Lianne began searching for any living puppies.

The stray dog was brought into the vets with a broken leg. She is pictured here recovering, healthy and happy after being reuinted with her puppies, in Vera, southern Spain

Lianne Powell found the dog at a market and took her into the vets. She is pictured here being led by Vera to the abandoned car where her puppies lay

They were amazed when the dog, which has now been named Vera after the town where she was found, miraculously led the pair on a two mile walk straight to her tiny offspring.

Belgian expat Ellen, 39, said: 'She had a broken leg, was bleeding from the back end and I saw she had milk, so I thought "well where are the puppies?".

'We put a collar and long lead on her and took her back to the market. Then we just followed her for about 3km – she knew where she was going.

'She led us to them, it was incredible – I couldn't believe what I saw.

'That dog didn't know us, we'd only met her like an hour before so it was really incredible how she decided to trust and show us where they were.'

The vet noticed that the stray was producing milk and was amazed when she trusted her and Lianne enough to lead them to her puppies (pictured inside a bucket)

Vera the dog, found on the street later led Lianne and Ellen to the abandoned car where her puppies lay. They are pictured here cosy and warm after being brought back to the vets

The abandoned car which Vera gave birth to her puppies in is pictured with windows covered in cardboard boxes

Lianne Powell, left, and Ellen Sobry, right, are pictured in a selfie at the abandoned car after finding Vera's puppies. One of Vera's ten adorable offspring is pictured climbing on her neck at the vets (right)

The pair filmed the walk and the dog can be seen leading Ellen and Lianne to an abandoned car with cardboard boarding up its windows before leaping onto the passenger seat through an open door.

The good Samaritans then discovered ten newborn puppies huddled together on the shredded back seat of the vehicle as their mother looked out of the front window.

Lianne said: 'Clearly, we had a decision to make. If there were pups they would slowly starve to death unless we found them. We would need the greyhound's help but we didn't know if she would trust us enough to take us there.

'Limping and at times dragging her cast, she led us along the backstreets and main roads over the fields and along muddy tracks.

'At one point we worried she just trying to find her home but after 3km she turned up a tiny muddy track and led us under a thick hedge and into an abandoned house before crossing the yard and making her way into a car.

Lianne Powell walking with Vera while she leads her and Ellen Sobry two miles to an abandoned car where she had given birth to 10 puppies.

'Her broken leg was fresh but we don't really know what happened, she could have been hit by a car but she had no other wounds, maybe someone kicked her but we just don't know – it was a clean break,' vet Ellen said. Pictured, right, is Vera's x-ray

'There in the back were 10 beautiful, fat little healthy puppies. Needless to say there were tears all round. In the state she was in the fact she managed to fend for herself and care for 10 pups is nothing short of astonishing.'

Southern Spain has become notorious for high numbers of abandoned greyhounds, known as galgos, due to mass-breeding in order to find good hunting dogs.

Ellen said the winter is particularly bad for the breed as many owners are known to abandon their dogs in the off-season and buy new ones when the hunting season begins again.

But Lianne stressed while the issue is a problem those who breed and abandon dogs are a tiny percentage and not representative of the majority of people in Spain.

The adorable puppies were fat and healthy when they were found. Vera is now 'recovering great, the only thing she has to worry about now is eating, feeding her puppies and sleeping. She's a little bit timid, but she's not too scared,' vet Ellen said

Lianne Powell walking with Vera. 'At one point she turned up a tiny muddy track and led us under a thick hedge and into an abandon house,' Lianne said

Vera is still recovering at Ellen's surgery Clinivet Turre and the vet is working with Ibizan Hound Rescue in Murcia, Southern Spain, to find homes for the dogs when they are fit to leave the clinic.

The non-profit organisation, led by British expats Diane and Brian Hughes, 58 and 59, takes in strays and works to find them loving homes.

Ellen said: 'Vera and her puppies are doing fantastic and they are all healthy.

'Her broken leg was fresh but we don't really know what happened, she could have been hit by a car but she had no other wounds, maybe someone kicked her but we just don't know – it was a clean break.

'Now she is recovering great, the only thing she has to worry about now is eating, feeding her puppies and sleeping. She's a little bit timid, but she's not too scared.

'We see more strays every day, this is the end of the hunting season, it's bad at the moment.

'They have no use for them anymore, they're used for hunting and when they slow down they just throw them out.'