A dog and her two puppies were rescued from a landslide recently in the southern Indian state of Kerala.

Locals discovered the mother dog buried up to her neck behind a shop in the Palakkad district on October 15 after heavy rains caused tonnes of earth to slide down a mountainside two days earlier.

An animal rescuer arrived on the scene and dug around the stricken mother to free her.

Rescuers then found her two puppies in the mud nearby.

Locals said they believed the dogs must have been trapped there for two days without food or water.

The animals were said to be making a full recovery.

Location: Kappur Palakkad district of Kerala State in South India.

A landslide occured in Pallakkad region on October 12 th. Life were returning to normalcy in that area.

Asharaf Varsha Ashraf Varsha lives in Kappur , kanjirathani, Palakkad district of Kerala.

He went to a nearby tea shop to have a tea. He heard some cries of a dog. But they didn't find any. Still the cries are heard.

He went near a heap of mud and to his suprise he heard the cries of the dog under the soil.

He understood that the dog was struck in the landslide that held two days ago in that region.

He then immediately called the animal rescuer who lives close to that area.

They reached the spot and started to dig out the soil to rescue the dog.

Later mamma dog and two pups survived a minor landslide after lying covered with mud behind a shop for three days following heavy rains and landslide.

Both mama and two pubs are nursing back to health.