Bjørn and Birgit Sandberg first thought they were seeing a pack of young dogs until they realized they were wolves, probably about two months old.
It's believed they're the offspring of a wolf pair from Østerdalen, that wandered westwards.
Birgit Sandberg, age 65, grabbed her camera and ventured out on the veranda to snap a photo before all six wandered off. She and her husband were aware there may be wolves in the area, but had never seen any before.
And never before had six wild wolves been snapped in the same photo in Norway.
About 700 meters away from the Sandbergs' cabin, in a forested area that had been trampled down, the couple found the remains of two moose.
"There's clearly been a party here," Bjørn Sandberg told Aftenposten.no on Tuesday. "There were only bones left."
Also found near the feeding grounds were the remains of a dead wolf, believed to be the seventh sibling of the pack of pups. Experts believe the seventh wolf in the litter wasn't strong enough to survive.
State conservation officials sent two researchers to the Sandberg's cabin but they couldn't track down the wolves. They did retrieve hair and droppings for DNA testing from the area around the dead moose, to aid in documentation of the wolves' movements.
