Last month, California-based rescuer Suzette Hall received a heartbreaking call for help. As the founder of Logan’s Legacy 29, Hall has rescued countless stray pups around Los Angeles County, but this case was different.

“[T]wo little souls were abandoned in one of the harshest places imaginable — a massive park near Dodger Stadium in LA,” Hall wrote on Facebook. “They were left with nothing but a thin blanket. That’s it.”

While Dodger Stadium is a popular haven for sports and entertainment fans alike, the adjacent park is not as welcoming, especially for vulnerable dogs.

“[They were] alone, scared and surrounded by danger,” Hall wrote. “Coyotes circled them more than once — this is not an exaggeration — and people literally had to fight them off to keep these girls alive.”

According to the callers, the pair of dogs had been abandoned two weeks prior and were only discovered after neighbors heard their barks ring out.

“From deep within the thick bushes and dry shrubs, their cries echoed,” Hall wrote. “Thank God someone heard them and began bringing food and water, because without that, they would not have made it.”

Hall rushed to the park as soon as she received the call, traversing the rough terrain just to find them. She located the pups moments later and realized they wouldn’t be as easy to trap as she’d hoped.

“The place they were left was so steep and desolate that I couldn’t even carry traps up the mountain road,” Hall wrote. “So I set them below and threw food upward, praying they would come down. And by some miracle … one by one, they did.”

“The moment those trap doors shut, we broke down in tears,” Hall wrote. “The isolation, the hopelessness, the sheer fight to live — it was all behind them now. For the first time, they were safe.”

With both dogs in tow, Hall drove straight to Camino Pet Hospital, where she received the most unexpected news.

“After rescuing them, I found out they were both pregnant,” Hall wrote on Facebook. “My heart just sank. Not only had they been trying to survive out there on their own, but their unborn babies were depending on them, too. To think of them giving birth out there in the middle of nowhere, alone and unsafe, is unbearable.”

Thankfully, the dogs, named Chantilly and Cheyenne, wouldn’t have to worry about having their babies alone in a treacherous park. Instead, they each went off to cozy foster homes to prepare for the birth of their puppies.

And their rescue couldn’t have happened at a better time. One month after being saved, Chantilly gave birth to nine healthy babies.

A week later, Cheyenne welcomed her five puppies, and the tally of dogs rescued from the park that day officially rose.

“The day I thought I was saving just two lives … I actually saved sixteen,” Hall wrote on Facebook. “Sixteen beating hearts. Sixteen stories of survival. Sixteen little miracles.”

Thanks to Hall’s rescue team and Alix Levy Smith, a foster care provider from Second Leash On Life, Chantilly and Cheyenne are now able to raise their puppies peacefully, in the comfort of their loving foster homes.

Both little families will be available for adoption in a few months, once the babies are old enough to be away from their mothers. Until then, Chantilly and Cheyenne will continue to be the best moms ever while their caregivers keep doting on them.

“As I watch them snuggle, give sweet puppy kisses, and take their very first breaths of safety and love, I can’t help but think, ‘This is what rescue is all about. From desperation to hope. From fear to family,’” Hall wrote on Facebook. “Cheyenne, your little family is perfect. And you, sweet mama, are so deeply loved.”