What a heartwarming story .

A hiking club in Mexico was recently trekking up the highest point in the country to save a stray dog who had spent almost one month stuck on top of the inactive volcano in Veracruz.

Mixed-breed dog Canelo had been stranded on Pico de Orizaba for a month after he followed a group of mountain climbers on the trail, reports Mexican newspaper Milenio.

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Rather than going back down the mountain with the hikers, Canelo stayed behind and somehow managed to survive freezing temperatures.

Layo Aguilar (right) put together a team of experienced and amateur mountain climbers to rescue the dog.

The climbers took turns carrying Canelo in a backpack and made their way down Pico de Orizaba in Veracruz, Mexico.

‘I caressed him and I felt that he responded to the language of a human,’ Aguilar wrote on Facebook.

The inactive volcano Pico de Orizaba is the highest peak in Mexico.

Fatima del Angel, who works for a local animal shelter, took Canelo to a local vet so that he could be cared for and put up for adoption.

‘I never imagined how a puppy in three days loves you so much, to the point that I would not let the terrible Rocco get close to me,’ Aguilar wrote.

‘I felt ugly when I said goodbye to him, when I put him on the transporter he got sad and angry, but it is for his good and I could not and should not keep him.’

The dog made international headlines and is now likely to be flooded with adoption offers.

source:kingdomstv