More Complicated Than Thought

Still, there’s the possibility that the mother wasn’t in the storm drain but had just left to look for food. She might even be nearby and simply waiting for the strange men to leave her pups so she could get back to them. Taking them away would merely confuse her.

Now, it’s part of the responders’ dilemma whether or not they’d actually get the pups out of the hole in the first place. What started out as a relatively simple and straightforward rescue mission became a lot more complicated than expected.