A pair of dogs are very happy to have a neighbor like Mr. Bill and their mom shared the reason why. Charlie and Doug live in South Carolina with Kimberly Hansberry Shelton and her family. Recently, Shelton filmed an adorable video of her dogs with her senior neighbor. Shelton is looking into her backyard when…
An emu that escaped from home led police on one wild “emu chase” through the town of Harriman, Tennessee. Meemu the Emu jumped his enclosure’s 7-foot-tall fence after getting spooked by the sounds of a nearby logging crew, says his owner Harry McKinney. He tried to get a hold of Meemu after the bird escaped…
Bentley wanted to honor his Nana at her celebration of life with a song. The 5-year-old selected Celine Dion’s ‘My Heart Will Go On‘ and gives it his all and the video his aunt shared is touching hearts around the globe. His aunt, Haley Bonds, revealed that Bentley is also blind and has a rare…
A stolen Yorkie is back safely with her family thanks to an Iraq war veteran who used his expertise to track down the suspected thieves. Richard Machamer is a United States Marine Corps veteran. When he learned that Raquel Witherspoon had her beloved Yorkshire Terrier, Avery, stolen from outside her home in broad daylight he…
A liquor store worker is receiving accolades after her gesture of kindness towards a homeless man was caught on camera and shared on social media. Leia Thomas, known as “Ace”, hasn’t worked long at Brooklyn Center Liquor in Minnesota. But when a homeless man came to the store looking for cardboard boxes for his feet,…
Taylor Lumpkin had an unusual morning recently. She was “being a good mother” and letting her dog, Gracie, out to go to the bathroom at 6am before work. As she was heading out the door of her apartment she noticed a man trying to get in but his key fob wasn’t working. That’s when things…
“My worst nightmare as a paramedic has come true.” Jayme Erickson shared her unimaginable, heartbreaking story in a Facebook post. On November 15, Jayme responded to a car crash in Alberta, Canada unaware that the seriously-injured teenage girl she tended was her own daughter. Her daughter, Montana, would later die in hospital from her injuries….
A British farmer was tending to his flock of Swiss Valais Blacknose sheep when he noticed something a little different about them. The black and white sheep all had pink heads! At first, Richard Nicholson, owner of Cannon Hall Farm in Barnsley, U.K. thought someone had taken a spray marker to the heads of the…
It was a sad day in St. Louis. That’s what the dismayed rescuers at Stray Rescue of St. Louis wrote in August after a female dog suffering from gunshots was brought in for emergency surgery. They named her Princess Rosie. Her face had only been grazed by a bullet but her front legs were not…
A 19-year-old dog was surrendered at a Dallas shelter. The only information the shelter got from the people who dropped Annie off was that was that the silver-furred black Labrador mix had stopped walking and eating and is 19 years old. Shortly after Annie arrived at the Dallas Animal Services shelter, Lauren Siler spotted a…
Is there anything better than jumping into a pile of autumn leaves? Little children love to do it. Dogs love to do it. And for these foxes, it’s a treat they look forward to every year. Whitby Wildlife Sanctuary in the United Kingdom shared a series of adorable pictures showing their rescued foxes enjoying a…
Conway the Pit Bull had disappeared from home for nearly a year but his heartbroken family was about to get a huge surprise. Ten months after the dog had vanished, the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office’s animal services unit spotted a “skinny and exhausted” stray dog on a street. Highland County Sheriff’s Office shared on Facebook:…
As the unprecedented, historic flooding affects over 33 million people in Pakistan, people are bravely doing their best to save lives. One group of people came to the rescue of a dog after he fell into a muddy sinkhole very close to an overflowing river. TikTokker @ayantareeno shared videos of the daring and dangerous rescue. A…
What could have very easily been a tragic story turned out to be a “feel good story of survival.” Rick Haley was recently at a caving project inside the Tom Moore Cave system in Perry County, Missouri when a group exploring the caves discovered a dog! When Rick Haley heard about the dog he and…
A Good Samaritan was in the right place at the right time to save a dog’s life after the pet collapsed while out exercising with his/her owner. In the video clip shared on social, a man can be seen leaning over the dog and performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). He is performing chest compressions and applies…
A young girl got into some serious trouble when she lost control of her bicycle and was heading downhill straight for a telephone pole. But thank goodness a man standing outside of a bar noticed the impending disaster and sprang into action. Surveillance video taken in Américo Brasiliense, São Paulo, Brazil shows a group of…
A teenager swept up in the Kentucky flooding was determined not to leave her dog behind. Her fast thinking saved both their lives. The unprecedented flooding that has hit eastern Kentucky has left hundreds of people without homes and hundreds more missing. But Chloe Adams, 17, reacted quickly and grabbed a plastic bin to save…
A dog who was covered in gasoline and purposely set on fire in Memphis, Tennessee, is receiving an outpouring of support from people around the world. Good Samaritans in the Memphis neighborhood came to the dog’s rescue after they saw her engulfed in flames on June 20, WHBQ reported. “So I come bolting outside, and…
A man got home from work to find an injured dog in his yard not moving and another dog watching her from the bushes. Not knowing what was wrong with the dog he called Stray Rescue of St. Louis for help. When Donna approached the black dog, she could tell that the dog was badly…
A son watching his dad struggle to keep the family restaurant afloat came up with an idea that is helping turn things around. After 10 years of serving Mexican food in Utah, restauranteur Nico Cardenas was thinking of calling it quits after the pandemic saw his business plummet. But when his son Carlos Cardenas asked…
“So, he just WALKED in?” That was the question police had when they arrived at the Dollar General in Florida to help the store staff with a 135-pound dog who had wandered in and didn’t want to leave. Bentley the dog must have decided to do a little shopping after breaking out of a gate…
A Canada goose has been looking for his mate at a shopping centre in Toronto, Canada, for several weeks, unaware she has passed away. The widowed goose has been searching for her and his sad vigil has caught the attention of shoppers. Staff at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario shop in the plaza said…
Bertha Komor waited a long time for her wish to be realized. Ever since she was a young girl, the 104-year-old has wanted to meet and hold a penguin. She never thought it would happen, but thanks to her caretakers at the Village Gate Farmington retirement community in Connecticut, the Mystic Aquarium and the Twilight…
A K-9 police dog lead sheriff’s deputies right to a missing Florida woman with dementia, saving her life. The dog sniffed out the woman in a wooded area, where she had fallen to the ground. She was severely dehydrated when they found her. “Deputy Lariz and K-9 Toby tracked her to a wooded area about…
Rollins College’s 2022 Valedictorian Elizabeth Bonker recently gave an inspirational speech at her graduation ceremony even though she can’t speak. She is affected by non-speaking autism but communicates through typing. During her wonderful speech, she urges her fellow graduates to “see the worth in every person we meet” and to be of service to others,…
“The rattiest city in America” is getting some help from feral cats. Chicago is known to have a rodent problem. But an innovative program by Tree House Humane Society aims to reduce the rat population and help feral cats have homes. People in Lakeview have said that the rat numbers are so bad that they…
A woman wanting to say thank you to a foster family who took care of her 30 years ago posted a request on a Facebook Group that she thought was a “long shot.” Instead, she received an outpouring of kindness and found the family within days. Jessica Cressey posted on Revelstoke Community, a mountain town…
A man in Thailand has invented a small, foldable shelter made out of recycled billboards to help stray dogs. Ajarn Yossaphon Chanthongjeen came up with the solution while at university studying for his doctorate and working with a local animal charity. He noticed the many street dogs in his community of Pak Kret, a suburb…
A homeless teen who surrendered his puppy to an animal shelter in Mississippi because he couldn’t provide for her has been reunited with his dog. Senatobia-Tate County Animal Shelter shared the story of the 17-year-old and his dog on April 8, 2022 after he came to the shelter and begged them to take her. Their…
Images of Ukrainians fleeing with their pets capture the chaos, fear and uncertainty facing hundreds of thousands of people as they seek refuge in neighboring countries. Some have fled only with the clothes on their backs and with their loved ones in their arms hoping to find a safe place to shelter. Some are huddling…
A tiny, starving dog who was brought to Kentucky Humane Society recently met another dog who survived a similar experience and the two have became fast friends. An Uber driver had spotted the severely emaciated dog, now named Travolta, lying on the side of the road and helped him. Travolta was covered in filth and…
A park-goer out enjoying a warm night in Bucaramanga, Colombia spotted a young homeless man with his dogs celebrating a special moment and captured it on camera. The video has captured the hearts of dog lovers since. In the video, the homeless man is seen placing paper hats on the heads of his two dogs….
A keen-eyed spectator at a recent NHL hockey match did more than enjoy the game, she helped save a man’s life. But she didn’t know it at the time. Brian “Red” Hamilton, assistant equipment manager for the Vancouver Canucks, was in Seattle with the team in a match against the Seattle Kraken in late October…
A starving dog who was doing everything in her power to keep her puppies alive spent Christmas finally being cared for. The two-year-old dog, now named Celeste, was found abandoned and emaciated just before Christmas and brought to the BC SPCA in Nanaimo, British Columbia. “She was living outdoors and starving, but she was obviously…
A nurse went the extra step to help one of her patients by adopting his dog. Jennifer Smith, a nurse at The Grand Rehabilitation and Nursing Home in Rome, New York discovered that one of her patients had given up his dog after he was hospitalized. John Burley is one of Jennifer’s favorite patients. So…
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