After being abandoned by her owners, a small dog got stuck on the meridian of a busy main road in Bucharest, Romania. Scared and alone, the dog had not safe way to cross. Thankfully, a veterinary surgeon happened to by driving by. Ovidiu Rosu risked personal harm to save the dog from the highway. He…
During the worst rainstorm that Los Angeles has had this year, Hope For Paws received an urget call about a stray Pit Bull who had just given birth to puppies. They arrived at night to where she was seen. It was pitch black out, but immediately they began searching for the mama and her pups….
Before graduating the following day and continuing on with their follow-on entry level training, these Marines perform a trick drill known as the “monkey drill”. Watch as they march in perfect unison!
Many people were scrambling to get indoors after a sudden storm hit Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. However, one man in an electric wheelchair was struggling to get uphill in the downpour. Fortunately for him, a kind stranger noticed his predicament and rushed to his aid. He jumped out of his car and braved the heavy rains…
These 10 animal rescuers may have saved hundreds of street dogs but they also inspired villagers, businesses and the municipality to make a difference too. In Ankara, Turkey adoption rates are low. People prefer to buy dogs instead of adopting them. Çiğdemin Patileri posts about stray dogs and rescue in a Turkish neighborhood. The make-shift…
When Animal Aid Unlimited received a call that a street dog in Udaipur, India had been hit by a car, the rescuers rushed to the scene and found him sitting oddly. His back legs had been paralyzed from his injury and he couldn’t understand why his legs wouldn’t work anymore. The accident had caused severe…
When Hope For Paws received the call about a stray Pit Bull in urgent need of rescue they rushed to her location. The dog was bleeding from a mammary mass that had gone untreated and she was hiding under a car. Leesa looked defeated and scared when Eldad Hagar arrived to help her. But as…
“We often talk about the rewards of police work. On Friday, we captured a moment.” That’s how Charles County Sheriff’s Office opened in a Facebook post that went viral. Officers from the Maryland station responded to a 911 call from a daughter who reported her 81-year-old mother, Roberta, missing. Her mom takes a daily walk…
While Hope For Paws was attending a funeral, they got a call about a pack of puppies that were stuck in a deep den 18 feet in the earth. The puppies’ mother is feral and was nowhere to be seen. (People have been trying to rescue her for 5 years without success, but rescue efforts…
Chevron Gas needed to fix up a property that they owned, but before they embarked on their repairs, they had to solve a long-standing mystery. For 12 years, the fence around the land had an elaborate memorial with flowers erected around it, but no one had ever seen who was responsible. They just knew it…
When Diandra Toyos went to her local IKEA with her mom and her three children on March 23, 2017, little did she know she would have a frightening experience that would prompt her to warn parents about what she believes was a close call with human traffickers. The Southern Califorina mom, whose kids are all…
Janice Wolf’s lifelong dream has been to establish a rescue which would help all kinds of animals. Around 20 years ago, she established Rocky Ridge Refuge in Arkansas. Over the years, she has rescued many dogs and also a wide variety of exotic animals. They all live together and have formed a unique animal family….
“If ever there was an animal on the brink of death, it was this sweet girl when we rescued her.” That’s what Animal Aid Unlimited, India surmised when they first saw Shanti lying in a sewage drain. The dog was emaciated and had a massive wound on the side of her neck infested with maggots….
While investigating a known stolen car dumping ground in southwest Atlanta, Trooper Ennis and his K9, Tek, found something else dumped – actually three “somethings” who needed urgent help. “TFC1 Ennis was in southwest Atlanta yesterday in a known stolen car dumping ground. He was driving in an abandoned subdivision when he saw three puppies…
Every day, across the country people die in hospice care. For many of the dying, the health care workers at their facilities are the people they are close to in their final moments. Nurse aid Isabelle sang every Friday to Grandma Helen. Upon hearing that Grandma Helen was going to pass, Isabelle stopped by on…
“Shadow was a wild, stray dog, living in the outskirts of Athens, Greece. She used to sleep on a pile of garbage and feed off rotting corpses of livestock, abandoned in the field next to the house where the shepherd lives,” writes The Orphan Pet. When a volunteer with the rescue group SPAZ first saw…
Two canine brothers are capturing the hearts of dog lovers after their touching rescue was revealed. Picasso and Pablo were part of a litter of puppies from a backyard breeder. But because Picasso was born with a facial deformity, the breeder was unable to sell Picasso and he was dumped at the Porterville Animal Shelter…
Joy was living on the streets when she was run over by a car and left to suffer. She was rescued by volunteers of SPAZZ, a rescue group in Athens, Greece. She was immediately taken to hospital where they treated her two shattered legs and pneumothorax cause by the impact of the crash. A sign…
A Michigan woman suffered serious consequences after she decided to start laughing and talking during the sentencing of her daughter for killing a man in a car crash while driving under the influence. Detroit Judge Qiana Lillard kicked two people out of the room for laughing during the deadly DUI sentencing. Lillard was sentencing 25-year-old…
Keith Ezell was on his way to work in Cleveland, Ohio, when he rolled up to a car accident and saved a life. The 36-year-old nurse assistant heard the driver of one of the cars begging for help for his passenger. The young girl had stopped breathing. Ezell had just recently completed a new CPR…
Animal Aid Unlimited, India got a call about “Goldie” to their helpline. The street dog in Udaipur, India had been badly injured after being hit by a car. “He had injuries not only on his head and fore-arm, but his inner thigh had several deep lacerations that were bleeding,” the rescue group wrote. Goldie would…
A happy Pit Bull named Ashley roams the kitchen in a New York firehall, completely at home with her surroundings. It’s a far cry from her life a month ago when she was found starving inside of an abandoned “crack house” by animal rescuers Erica Mahnken and her fiancé, Michael Favor in Staten Island, New…
A 19-year-old woman is warning others to be careful and “vigilant” after she found a shirt laid over her windshield in Flint, Michigan. She shared her experience on Facebook, and her warning is now being being widely shared by news outlets and investigated by police. Ashley Hardacre had just finished working a closing shift at…
A Los Angeles man makes it his life’s mission to foster terminally ill children. For the last 22 years, Mohamed Bzeek has been caring for terminally ill children in the Los Angeles County foster system. He has cared for more than 40 kids, 10 of them dying right under his roof. Many parents who are…
A tiny puppy who was stuck down a deep hole for more than a week has finally been rescued. Rescuers were notified by residents that a puppy was trapped down a narrow borehole well in the town of Beykoz, Turkey. Although it’s not known how the puppy ended up down the well, his rescue would…
A stray dog ended up getting a home and full-time employment after hanging around the construction site of a gas station in the town of Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil. Sabrina Plannerer and her partner had purchased the Shell gas station when it was being built and soon noticed a big black dog, who they learned…
Boogie Shoes was turned into the shelter at 8 weeks old. The woman who dropped him off claimed to have found him in a supermarket’s parking lot in 110 degree heat in Palm Springs, California. While that may be true, the region is also known for back yard breeders, which lead the staff at Palm…
A police officer is earning accolades after he helped save a dog that chased a bird into a small lake and fell through the thin ice. The dog was with his owners for a walk around Lost Lagoon in Vancouver’s Stanley Park, a popular park in Vancouver, BC when he ran into the lake and…
Hearing some baby animals crying in the bushes, a concerned person called the animal rescue group Howl of a Dog to tell them. When they rescuers arrived they noticed a crumpled white bag among the high grass, and looking inside they found several newborn puppies who had been dumped and left to die. Two of…
A stray Pit bull is on her way to becoming a breed ambassador thanks to her rescue by Hope For Paws. They got an urgent call about a stray Pit Bull hit by a car after Sonja Flores saw the dog get hit. She stayed with the injured until they arrived. The poor dog had…
A sweet street dog got into an awful, life-threatening situation when she chose to crawl into a drum to get warm during the night and got stuck to the sticky tar inside. Animal Aid Unlimited’s rescue team found her hyperventilating and terrified, trapped chest-deep in tar inside the drum. “A street dog in Udaipur, India,…
The odds of survival were against Kanya and her siblings, who were living on the streets of Thailand. They were going through the trash for food, threatened by starvation, disease, cars and being picked up and transported to the dog meat trade until some kind people with K9 Aid and LIFE Animal Rescue rescued them…
Daisy the dog was first spotted by Susan Hilden running for her life in a field in an urban neighborhood. Susan contacted her friend with Hollister Animal Lost and Found Animals Facebook page and they learned that Daisy had run away from home just two days after she was adopted from the local shelter. She…
A “Little Brown Dog” who won the hearts of animal control officers after she followed after their vehicle in the aftermath of a hurricane has found a home and a new job with her rescuers. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s Animal Care and Control’s Emergency Response team were doing care checks on animals left behind at their…
Lamanda Brown and her four kids were given the surprise of their life recently when they walked through a fully furnished home after three years of of homelessness. The family transitioned to public housing thanks to the non-profit Humble Design, which assists families coming out of homeless and abuse shelters with the process of rebuilding…
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