A litter of puppies and their mother are safe after Hillsborough County Animal Control officers rescued them from the crawl space under ... a call about a dog under the house.

(WFLA) — A mother dog and her five puppies were rescued this week from a crawl space where they had been living underneath an abandoned house, according to Hillsborough County Animal Control.

Police arrested a naked man in the crawl space underneath the El Sereno ... and we just chucked it off to animals being under the house,” said Ricardo Silva, the woman's son-in-law.

NCWRC’s bear expert Colleen Olfenbuttel said there has been an increase in both human and bear populations over the past decade, and that has led to an uptick in bears denning under houses and decks.

Five puppies and their mother are safe after Hillsborough County Animal ... them from a crawl space under a vacant home. They got a call about a possibly aggressive dog under the house, and ...