Boxer-cross puppies have been plucked from a certain death near a Northland dump where they'd been abandoned in a black rubbish bag.
The gorgeous pups, pictured snuggling in a cardboard box, were rescued from ill-fate by the local Ahipara Dump worker.
A man found the pups inside a bag, which had been thrown into a drain across the road from the dump, local woman Poppy Yates said.
Yates said if the pups hadn't begun moving around they might never have been rescued.
"They were tied up in the black rubbish bag with clothes," she said. "The only reason he noticed the bag was because they were moving."
