Veterinarian Dr. Andy Mathis was about to leave work for the night when he received a call from a woman who said she found a dog in bad shape on a rural dirt road in Elberton, Georgia. She couldn’t afford to treat her, but she couldn’t just leave the dog there to die and asked…
A small gesture of compassion towards another human make all the difference. Ehab Taha was commuting on public transport in Vancouver, British Columbia, recently, when a man boarded the SkyTrain. Ehab noticed the man may have been suffering from a mental illness because he started swearing and acting “really aggressively” inside the car. Passengers began…
Their wedding day. It’s a day that many young girls dream about, they just don’t imagine it happening when they are only 12-years-old. Thea is 12 and she’s walking down the aisle to marry a 37-year-old man named Geir. Hundreds of people are in the aisles attending the ceremony…not to congratulate the couple, but to…
When Caiden was born, his parents, Mashanda and Michael Lane, noticed something was a little different with him. He didn’t cry and he would stare off into the distance. Originally, he was diagnosed autism, but doctors would later re-diagnose him as having apraxia and aphasia, conditions caused by a stroke that Caiden had while still…
Imagine being a young dog and never being let off the end of a chain. Biscuit is a Siberian Husky who along with 8 of his buddies was rescued by Amy Hines, a staff member with Dogs Deserve Better. “Amy spotted Biscuit and his siblings, friends, co-canines, on a property in KY while visiting. Amy…
A stray dog who nearly drowned in the icy waters of Lake Michigan has found a forever home with a woman who saw his dramatic rescue on TV. The white dog, now named Michigan, fell through the ice on the lake when a passerby saw him struggling for his life. She called police and officers…
It’s exciting for a high school senior to be nominated for Homecoming King. But when Jesse Cooper and two of his classmates, Drew and Zeke, were nominated at Unionville Community High School back in 2013, the three made a pact to give up the crown. Why? They wanted to make sure Scotty Maloney got it….
Deputies Roger Garcia and Sam Rodriquez with the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department in New Mexico recently pulled over a drunk driver and found him driving with his three kids in the car. The children are ages 5, 2 and 2 months old. The deputies were upset to see the 2-month-old was not buckled into her…
Morissa Pena is a make-up artist and a waitress at Hooters. Recently she was pulling into work when she noticed a man sitting on the sidewalk. Instead of going in to work, she decided to go over to him and ask how he was doing. The two ended up having an emotional conversation that prompted…
When Animal Aid Unlimited first spotted Major Sahib, the old street dog had collapsed on the side of the street and was dying. The side of his head was being eaten away by maggots form an old, untreated head wound. “His body had completely given up and we believe that if we hadn’t rescued him…
It was the weekend and Anna Kaye MacLean decided to take her 7-year-old sister Arianna to lunch at Chili’s Grill & Bar in Midvale, Utah. Arianna is autistic and loves all kinds of hamburgers. It was while they were eating lunch that Anna noticed Arianna wasn’t touching her burger and was getting visibly upset. That’s…
Matthew Watkins makes it a point to greet any postal worker who comes by the home. When the local postal carrier noticed Matthew wasn’t home when she came by one day, she inquired and learned that the teen had been diagnosed with leukemia. He spent nearly a year in hospital, but when he recently returned…
It’s the small acts of kindness that can mean a whole lot to a child. Chase is a young boy who has already fought battles that many adults never experience. He is almost 8 years old, but since he was 2, he’s been fighting a rare brain cancer. As result of his prolonged treatments, he’s…
Forced to move out of state to live with her aunt’s family after the death of both her parents, Madison struggles to accept her new life. In an effort to make her feel more at home, her Aunt Linda decided to surprise Madison with a bedroom makeover. Her once monotone and grey attic room is…
You’ll get inspired when you see how Japanese students operate their lunch period! At this elementary school in Saitama, Japan, lunch is placed as a learning period. Students grow their own vegetables on the school’s farm and then cook the food. They serve meals to their fellow classmates and clean up afterwards. In this video,…
A rescue dog who was once so traumatized that she could only stare at a wall in her kennel has made an amazing recovery in her adopted home. Cara was saved by PAWS Animal Rescue Ireland in July 2015 after the lurcher was picked up off the street. They filmed a video of when they…
Suzie Skougard was shopping with her baby daughter Carly at the supermarket when their routine trip turned sour after she encountered three rude strangers. One criticized her for not having shoes on her daughter’s feet (Carly had kicked them off in the store), a store clerk ignored her request for help finding an item, and…
When an elderly woman suffering from Alzheimer’s wandered away from her home on a cold winter’s night, her caregiver immediately called police, who sent out a search part and a helicopter to look for the old woman. But it ended up being a Pit Bull in the neighborhood who found and rescued her! Cara Jones…
Found as a stray and brought to a southern shelter, not much is known about Quasimodo’s past life. What is known is that the German Shepherd Dog has Short Spine Syndrome. Apparently, he is one of only 13 known dogs in the world with this rare genetic condition. Quasi is thought to be around 5…
Jason Gibson was visiting Taco Bell when he noticed two kids come into the restaurant and try to sell homemade desserts for money. Also in the restaurant was LTC Robert Risdon, who gestured for the boys to come over and talk to him. “I overheard a soldier ask the kids if they were hungry and…
Drinking and driving is something that when it’s prevented, stops tragedies from happening. When YouTube prankster Tom Mabe heard that his friend, Ray, had been charged with his fifth DUI, he decided to play an “epic” prank on his friend to teach him a lesson. Tom and his friends waited until he blacked-out and then…
Brittaney Lynn Shane’s boyfriend was good at pointing out her every flaw. Whether it was the way she wore her hair or makeup, or her weight. When he left her for a “prettier” girl, she had completely lost her confidence and blamed herself. But not for long…She shortly realized something and took to Facebook to…
A police officer never knows what the day will bring. Case in point, Officer Taylor, with the Rochester Police Department in Michigan, was driving to a call when he saw a baby skunk walking in the middle of the road. The poor creature had its head stuck in a empty yogurt container. Officer Taylor stopped…
After Kelly’s small act of kindness towards a homeless woman went viral, Ellen Degeneres knew she had to invite Kelly onto her show. Kelly lives in Chicago, where winter has set in fiercely. Recently, when Kelly and her husband were coming home from a Chicago Bears football game, they were in a rush to catch…
He may be wheelchair bound, but that’s not keeping Justin Anderson from helping make his community safe. When it snows in his Omaha neighborhood – and it has quite heavily in the past few weeks – the Iraq war veteran takes his modified off-road wheelchair and clears the sidewalks of snow. Justin specially rigged his…
Anthony Ruelas, 15, is an eighth-grader at an alternative middle school in Texas, who was recently suspended for two days helping a classmate having an asthma attack. Apparently, during one of his classes a student was having troubles breathing and told the teacher she was having an asthma attack. Anthony said this went on for…
Bridget is a busy mom, taking care of her two young children and her husband away. So when she recently arrived home with her sons to a very cold house and the furnace broken she called a local heating company for help. It was a cold winter evening in her hometown of Pennsylvania so she…
The odds were stacked against Ellie the baby elephant surviving after he was rescued by Karen Trendler and the staff at Thula Thula Rhino Orphanage in South Africa. He had been rejected by his herd and was critically ill. The calf had a large umbilical abscess and septicemia. As his caregivers worked around the clock…
Of the hundreds of stray cats roaming the streets of Istanbul, Turkey, several of the homeless pets have found refuges from the winter cold and a home in a mosque thanks to a kind Imam. Imam Mustafa Efe began welcoming stray cats indoors as his “guests” so they could keep warm during the cold winter…
This is one of those stories that restores your faith in humanity. California firefighters with the City of Riverside Fire Department Engine 6-C were returning from training when they noticed an elderly homeless man walking very slowly on the side of the freeway. He had no shoes on. The firefighters decided to stop and help….
Single mom Teresa Adams and her son Tommy were on their way home when Tommy asked her to pull over after he noticed a 76-year-old man with a walker trying to shovel snow off his driveway. “Tommy said, ‘Mamma stop the car,’” Teresa told WTVR. “I got scared and asked, ‘What’s wrong?’ He said, ‘There’s…
After two Chihuahua-mix puppies were born prematurely and rejected by their birth mother, a Siamese cat took on the role of caregiver and protector. Nessy had recently given birth to her own kittens, so it didn’t take much prompting for her to take to nursing the two orphans. “We took the puppies, put them on…
Sarah Owen Bigler was hoping for a quick and easy trip to Target. She had a long day at work, her husband was sick and she had just picked up her kids from school and the sitter. So when she was ready to head to the checkout line, she picked the one with only one…
Larry Payne and his wife Pat were married for over 50 years and shared a wonderful life together. When Pat recently died from breast cancer, Larry was devastated but he wanted to do something to honor her and decided to build a bridge over a small creek in the local cemetery. He put his “heart…
College student Casey Fischer was getting her morning coffee at Dunkin Donuts recently when she spotted a homeless man close by. The man looked like he was picking up change on the side of the road before entering the shop. While he was counting his change, she decided to approach him ended up buying him…
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