By Amanda Lien
LOS ANGELES — Three Italian mastiffs who wandered Angeles National Forest for weeks have been rescued about two months after hikers first reported spotting them.
KTLA reports there had been several sightings of the mastiffs in early March but deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and Montrose Search and Rescue couldn’t get close enough to catch them. Capturing the dogs also proved difficult for Simi Valley’s Dog Days Search & Rescue, the LASD said.
In late March, the Simi Valley group custom-built a pen using panels and a soccer net and supplied it with food and water in the hopes of capturing the dogs. It wasn’t until almost a month later that the three dogs went into the pen.
The dogs have since been taken to Montrose Search and Rescue, where they will receive medical treatment before possibly being adopted, KTLA reports. It is unclear where the dogs came from, but officials suspect they had been abandoned.
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