Three Great Pyrenees puppies need a new home after they were found abandoned in the mountains of Utah.

Kat Perry and Corey Holt were snowmobiling on Saturday afternoon when they saw a lone, muddy Great Pyrenees standing in the state’s Monte Cristo Snowmobile Complex. The Weber County Sheriff’s Office’s search and rescue team was in the area and they came to bring the puppies off the mountain using a sleigh.

Snowmobilers got the help from Search and Rescue officers in saving the dogs, they provide a rescue sled. They were safely off the mountain, and the three puppies were given to the Great Pyrenees Rescue of Montana. Now, they are trying to find them loving new homes.

Snowmobilers Holt and Perry told KSTU that finding the puppies was “just dumb luck.” They told the outlet that they found the mother of the litter as well, but weren’t able to get her down.

“We didn’t have a leash, we didn’t have a rope or anything so we decided the best thing was to get these guys out first and then go back in and try to get her,” Holt said.

“The pups were cold, shivering and wet and just a little ball of ice,” Perry added.

According to KSTU, investigators say the mother was a sheepherder that ventured off to give birth to her litter sometime in the summer.

“We believe the mother belonged to a sheepherder and may have left camp to have the pups,” authorities said. “At that time the sheepherder may have left to get his flock off the mountain and may not have had a whole lot of time to go look for mom or the pups.”

“They were living in a sheep carcass. She had found a dead sheep and they had eaten, there was nothing left, just a little bit of wool and a few big bones. I’m sure that’s what she’d been eating on all fall,” Perry told the outlet.

Holt and Perry told KSTU that they are thinking to keep one of the dogs, who they’ve named “Polar.”

 

 

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