This is the heartwarming moment three puppies were rescued from under a pile of junk after their mother went missing.<br /><br />Mylha Tungul, 42, and a young neighbour lifted the old, rusty metal roof sheets to save the puppies who were crying for help on June 27 in Masbate City, the Philippines.<br /><br />The animal lover said they had been hearing the puppies crying for a few hours before she decided to check. They waited all afternoon and searched the surrounding streets but there was no sign of the mother.<br /><br />He said: "I thought it was my neighbour's puppies who were crying, but when I went out to buy at the store I heard it was coming from the abandoned lot."<br /><br />Her neighbour's children who live next to the lot saw her and helped her carry the metal roofs so they can take the puppies trapped underneath.<br /><br />At first, she thought it was just puppies that was trapped underneath, so she was shocked when they saw that the mother was with the babies.<br /><br />She added that the mother dog might have hid there to give birth but had not returned to the den.<br /><br />Mylha plans to adopt all three puppies and their mother so they can all be together.<br /><br />She said: "So far the puppies are as healthy and I already set a schedule for their vaccines next week."
