Hope For Paws received a call about a severely matted Maltese living on the streets. Her normally white fur was grey with dirt and matted clumps hung from her muzzle. With some gentle coaxing and patience, Violet eventually ends up in the safe arms of Eldad Hagar and Lisa Chiarelli. Violet was covered in ticks…
A teenager in St. Cloud, Minnesota is stealing hearts and making new friends at a VA medical center. Thirteen-year-old Aidan Knaus would much rather spend time volunteering at the local retirement home for veterans than be at home himself. Earlier this year, Aidan was diagnosed with memory lapses, ADHD and high functioning autism. His mom…
No reason was given, but when these two dogs were dropped off at the shelter by their owner, they clung to each other out of fear, uncertain of what their future might hold. Bridget and Louie, as they are now named, were photographed upon their intake at Montgomery County Animal Shelter in Conroe, Texas this…
Teenager Hannah Combs loved her hair, but a frightening bullying incident at school resulted in her having to partially shave her head. The 15-year-old was outside of Harker Heights High School with her friends when a boy came up behind her and poured super glue on her head. The chemical glue immediately began to burn…
A stray 5-month-old puppy was found tired and alone in the middle of a highway in a rural area in Greece. He was miles away from the nearest city and suffering from demodectic mange, which was spreading all over his tiny body. Rescuers also noticed he had a broken front leg and he was in…
A homeless man living deep in the woods of Natchez Trace State Park in Tennessee along with 31 dogs, has accepted the help of animal rescuers after he fell sick and could no longer look after the dogs. The man, who has not named for sake of his privacy, had been living outdoors in the…
A young man’s gesture of kindness towards a deaf man with cerebral palsy is touching hearts around the world. Canadian university student Godfrey Coutto was on the express bus heading home in Hamilton, Ontario, when a middle-aged man approached him on the packed bus to shake his hand. Godfrey didn’t pull away when the stranger…
When Lt. Eric Eslary passed away, his K-9 partner, Blek, refused to leave his side. Eslary was driving with the German Shepherd on May 5, 2015 when an allegedly drunk driver, who was driving on the wrong side of the road, collided with their vehicle. The crash fatally injured Eslary and badly injured Blek. Despite…
Are people still willing to help each other? YouTube prankster Ryan from Hammy TV decided to do a social experiment to see who would be willing to lend a helping hand. He jacked up a car and acted like he didn’t know how to put on the spare tire. After being ignored for several long…
One of the most inconsiderate things a driver can do is take a disabled parking space. In Russia, more than 30% of the drivers take disabled parking spaces without caring about the signs on the ground. Dislife, a Russian non-profit organization, came up with a powerful campaign to stop this rude behavior. They installed projections…
Sometimes things can go terribly wrong and still turn out amazing. That’s what happened when two strangers connected on a bitterly cold Virginia night. Felicia Glover reached out to help Kinley Crenshaw, who had no coat, no money and no way to get home. When Kinley shared Felicia’s act of kindness on Facebook she started…
For several years, 7-year-old Devyn Pereira has relied on her service dog, Hannah, to get her through the day. However, Devyn’s school district has made it extremely difficult for Hannah to accompany her to school. Her family has been in a legal dispute with the school in order to keep the two together and they…
YouTube prankster Johal decided to forego his regular joking and run a social experiment to see how honest people are. He writes, “In this ‘Social Experiment’ I act as if I’m blind. I approach people in a rich area and a poor area and see who will be honest and tell me that I have…
Raj has waited a long time to have a home to call his own. The blind Pit Bull has a heartbreaking history. He was chained in a junkyard for years with two other dogs. They were neglected and eventually poisoned; Raj was the only dog to survive. Eventually, Raj’s owners gave him to a kindhearted…
Where do you send a dog that’s unadoptable? When two dogs rescued from a dog meat farm in South Korea arrived at the ASPCA’s Behavioral Rehabilitation Center in Madison, New Jersey they were so undersocialized and fearful there was no way they could be adopted. The center takes on the toughest cases and attempts to…
Project 22 / Ride for Vets bikers were out on an escorted ride when a driver decided to do something reckless only to get a dose of instant karma. Something must have happened between the driver and the bikers because at the opening of the video you can see the biker with the helmet-cam is…
The New York City Subway is the scene of many life moments. They can be simple ones from people dancing and singing to this story, of a man who found a newborn baby! Danny Stewart first thought he spotted a doll. “I continued up the stairs because I didn’t think anything of it, but I…
Dogs and cats are visiting their loved ones in hospital and it’s just what the doctors ordered! A hospital in Hamilton, Ontario is allowing pets to visit families when they are sick. Families can put their pets on the visitor’s list for Juravinski Hospital thanks to a program begun by Donna Jenkins. Donna’s nephew Zachary…
David Lynn Krieger was a passionate animal lover and on December 11, 2015, the 53-year-old paid the ultimate price when he ran to the defense of a dog. David saw a man brutally beating a dog in a parking lot outside of his work and decided to intervene. He went over and asked the man,…
Less than a day after the tragic shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, the story of Chris Mintz, an Army veteran, a father and a student at Umqua who jumped into action to help save his classmates’ lives. According to witnesses, when Mintz heard the shooter firing in the classroom next door, Mintz told…
This Pit Bull was rescued from a dog fighting operation and is being visited at the shelter by a woman, who wants to see how he will respond to her attention. She speaks gently to him which prompts the dog to moan in response. And when she extends her hand through the bars? His reaction…
A homeless dog was living in a trench next to a biohazard disposal company when Hope for Paws first arrives to save him. The dog had been living in the dust-filled, garbage-strewn corridor and was reluctant to leave, forcing Eldad Hagar and Lisa to don hazard gear to rescue him. I’m always anxious when I…
Claire Henderson is warning parents not to let anyone kiss their newborn babies on the mouth after her baby daughter was hospitalized with potentially fatal cold sores. Fortunately, Claire noticed the early signs of the herpes simplex virus and rushed her daughter, Brooke, to the doctors. Although cold sores are harmless for the majority adults,…
It was hard for me to hold back the tears when watching this powerful story. Zachary has autism and was having increasing difficulty coping at school and he could hardly bear being touched. Zachary’s parents were so desperate they ended up turning to a prisoner convicted of murder for help. Chris, who is serving 48…
National Geographic grantee Cedar Wright and Alex Honnold love adventuring. For their latest journey, the two biked nearly 800 miles and climbed 45 iconic mountains in the American Southwest. The two were in the midst of the expedition they dubbed “Sufferfest 2” when they stumbled across something completely unexpected – a puppy! “Sometimes you’re in…
Sheriff’s Deputy Trevor Reeves was looking forward to visiting an old friend when he came back to town – a blind rescued Pit Bull named Stevie Wonder. Trevor became friends with Stevie after he was adopted from a shelter. He kept in touch with Stevie but got some heartbreaking news when he discovered Stevie had…
Michele Boggs works at an animal shelter and day in and day out she takes care of the dogs who come in. But, due to overcrowding, she says goodbye to many of them. She shared a powerful photo accompanied by a letter from the perspective of the dogs lying in the bags in front of…
For Juniper’s parents, her first birthday is an extra special occasion, one that they will forever cherish. That’s because the little girl almost didn’t survive to see it. Weeks after Juniper was born she was diagnosed with a rare heart condition called dilated cardiomyopathy. The disease decreases the heart’s left ventricle from pumping blood effectively…
Two inmates at the Multnomah County jail were working on a crew being supervised by Deputy Preston Dutson a few years ago when an emergency prompted the two men to become heroes. They were heading back to the prison when the deputy stopped to help a stranded motorist and collapsed from a heart attack. James…
Residents in a Russian town saved a pregnant dog who had been buried and left to die under a bricked-up sidewalk. A shocking video showing the dog’s rescue shows the dog being freed from her brick tomb in the town of Voronezh, Russia. How the dog came to be trapped under the street is unclear,…
One police officer in Walpole, Massachusetts has made it his mission to ticket youngsters. But it’s not what it seems. Officer Paul Lagoa is not giving them tickets for misbehaving, but for doing good things. It’s all part of an initiative Officer Lagoa calls “the Positive Ticket”. When the officer sees children doing something right,…
A pregnant Lurcher found brutally attacked bravely hung on to life for the sake of her unborn puppies. Cinnamon was found by dog wardens in Dublin, Ireland with multiple puncture wounds all over her body and heavily pregnant in late July of 2015. Her rescuers believe she was stabbed by someone and left for dead….
A street dog was curled up in a ball on the side of the road. He was suffering from severe mange and had completely given up hope. Just watch his transformation after kind humans rescued him and gave him the medical care he desperately needed. From the opening moments when Animal Aid Unlimited, India drives by…
The day Ginger the German Shepherd was dropped off at the Apple Valley Animal Shelter in California by her homeless owner, she disappeared. Alarms went off in the shelter that evening, altering animal control officers of an intruder. They went to investigate and didn’t find anyone, but they found some mess and noticed Ginger was…
Oftentimes, Special Needs Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation (SNARR), an animal rescue in Egypt, rescues dogs in desperate situations and Anubis was no exception. The dog is missing half his snout because of animal cruelty. But now, he is getting a new beginning in a loving foster home in the United States. Warning: some photos of Anubis may…
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