Photos of dog's rescue in Australian bush are blowing up internet

The sorry sight that greeted the hikers in a remote part of Queensland's Mt Glorious National Park.

In a period of time largely dominated by heartbreaking news, this feel-good story on Reddit is a welcome antidote.

It seems it has resonated with many people - the pictures were posted just 12 hours ago and the post has already garnered 1147 comments.

Reddit user Dangerm0use has shared the story of a recent bushwalk she went on with her husband and father.

"My husband and I took my dad to see some rock pools in a fairly secluded section of Queensland's Mt Glorious National Park," she wrote.

"It was honestly the saddest sight".

"As we walked along the creek bed, we noticed a disturbance in one of the deep pools ahead. Thinking it might be a roo or a platypus, we approached quietly, only to see this forlorn little face looking back. It was honestly the saddest sight".

"We approached cautiously, not knowing whether this was a domesticated or wild dog," she continued.

"Either way, we couldn't leave it there in the freezing water. It was completely exhausted from its attempts to struggle out of the deep section it had fallen into, and there's no way it would've survived the night. We erred on the side of caution and armed ourselves with a BFS (big f*cking stick), just in case it wanted to defend itself when we pulled it out of the water. We gently looped a rope around it's head/shoulders, and with a slight struggle, dragged it out onto the rocks. The dog wasn't aggressive at all, and in fact very timidly lumbered away from us, up the bank and into the thick lantana beside the pool. As it turned away from us, we saw that she was a desexed female - at some stage she must've been domesticated."

The dog appeared to be exhausted from the ordeal.

"We figured if she'd been someone's pet, there was a chance she had been dumped or lost. Even though she wasn't interested in coming to us, we knew again that we couldn't leave her there. She was in a completely inhospitable section of bush, in a gully with cliff face and hectares of national park on one side, and a scrubby, rocky, unscaleable bank up to a busy road on the other. There were also no houses within at least a 5km radius, and no obvious way for her to make her own way out of the gully. We saw her podgy little rump disappear into the lantana, giving us no other option than to wade in after her. Because the scrub was so thick we lost sight of her. Occasionally we could hear her bashing her way up the bank, and eventually we spotted her around 10m up, laying low in the thick undergrowth. We approached from three sides, to try to keep her from escaping again. When we crept up to her hiding spot, we saw that she'd made herself a little dugout in the bank, and she'd even made a tunnel through the lantana, down to the waterhole.

The rescuers luckily had rope with them to fashion a harness.

"At this stage, we still weren't sure if she'd let us get close to her, so we sat with her for a little while to see how she'd respond. She was very dejected, and obviously still exhausted. I snapped away the lantana from her little nest, and gradually got in closer, letting her get used to us being there. She was still apprehensive, but not aggressive, so after a while I took a chance and gave her a scratch on the head ... and she rewarded me with a lick on the hand. Despite obviously having been camped there for at least a few days, we noted that our little companion wasn't exactly lacking in mass, leading us to dub her Miss Piggy. We spent a bit more time getting acquainted with Miss Piggy, while we started to hatch a plan to get her out.

The dog appears a bit alarmed about being placed in a bag.

"The prospect of coaxing her back along the creek bed seemed pretty poor, given how tired and rotund she was, and given the difficulty of getting her round waterholes and over large rocks. We had ropes with us for climbing down waterfalls, and so figured that if we could tie her up securely, we might be able to make a run for the road above us. We created a makeshift harness with non-slip knots, and tried to coax Miss Piggy to slowly climb through the scrub and loose rocks with us. She (predictably) wasn't overly keen on that, so we set about carrying/nudging her along - one person leading her and another pushing/carrying her from behind. We secured the long end of rope to some trees above, to prevent her from slipping down the bank, and tried to make some slow progress."

"It was becoming pretty obvious that she wouldn't be able to make it up the bank unless we carried her, and so we were throwing around options for a harness and hammock set-up, using towels and ropes. My husband had a brainwave, remembering that we had a large canvas bag in our car (15 mins walk back up the creek). We figured that if we could get her into the bag, we could MacGyver together some apparatus to transport her out".

She was carried out of the bush.

"Miss Piggy was successfully delivered to the side of the road after about a 30 minute climb up through the bush. Note the disapproving glance at the compression sock/thong combo".

"We gave Miss Piggy some dinner, and set about seeing whether we could track down her owners. I posted on a FB page for lost pets in the area surrounding where we'd found her, and miraculously, got a message about 30 mins later. The guy was from a suburb about 15km north of the creek where she'd been hiding out. He was absolutely sure this was his dog, who had been lost since June 30 after wandering our of their yard. We were stoked until he referred to the dog as 'Bob', and our hearts sank thinking he had lost a male dog. However, he confirmed that 'Elly-Bobby' (named after Ricky Bobby) was indeed his little girl, with various physical characteristics to prove it. Bobby's dad had mounted massive FB and poster campaigns to find her, and had been searching for hours every evening since she went missing, never giving up hope that he'd find her".

During the trip home she seemed to relax a lot more. When we opened the back of the car, we were greeted with a different dog - the little tail was going a mile a minute". Source / Reddit

"We have no idea what she'd been doing between 30 June and 23 July when we found her. Her condition was surprisingly good for a pup that had been homeless for nearly a month. We also have no idea how she came to be in such an isolated part of the bush, with no signs of injury and only basic signs of exposure. We'd speculated that perhaps she was picked up and later dumped, or that she'd found a temporary home but hadn't stuck around. Whatever the story, we were just happy to have been in the right place at the right time to be able to help her".

Elly-Bobby reunited with her owner.

The story has resonated with Reddit users around the world and has been viewed over 500,000 times.

"You three are great people. Thank you for making me smile with this great story. This world needs more people like you guys," wrote one Reddit user.

"I really dislike people, but the folks who saved this dog are f***ing heroes," wrote another.