Rocky may have a greying muzzle and failing eyesight. He may not be able to walk up stairs or hear so well. But to his adoptive mom, the senior dog is the “best gift” she’s ever gotten. Rocky is 17-years-old and was recently brought in to Anne Arundel County Animal Control. His last days may…
If it wasn’t for this family’s Pit Bulls, two armed robbers may have been successful in stealing their 3-month old baby! Nayeli Garzon-Jimenez was at home and on the phone with her husband Adolfo Angeles-Morales when a man and a woman broke into their home while Adolfo. Nayeli heard a sound from the kitchen door…
Vacationers were hurrying home from their holidays and no one took any notice of a mother dog and her daughter clinging to life on the side of a highway. That was until Marti and Tsetso noticed them. The kind-hearted strangers noticed the dogs on the roadway in Bulgaria and stopped to help them. They put…
Destiny was visiting a McDonald’s in downtown Chicago when she noticed something that brought tears to her eyes and prompted her to snap a photo and share it on Facebook. An elderly man in a wheelchair was placing his order and asked the cashier a question that the cashier was having difficulty deciphering. “It took…
Renee is a NICU nurse at WellStar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, Georgia. Over the years, she has cared for many premature babies, caring for them as if they were her own. While at work recently, she was asked to sit and watch a video, and what she saw made her cry. Many of the families…
If you are in Fort Worth, Texas, you might get a glimpse of an unusual train puttering down a road. You might have to do a double take, as you realize it’s a train filled with dogs! Eighty-year-old Eugene Bostick and his “dog train” are well known to locals. He’s been driving the tractor with…
Since her father’s deployment, 4-year-old Alyssa Brown and her 14-month-old brother Liam have used a ‘daddy doll’ to comfort them whenever they need it. The doll has their father’s photo on it, but it doesn’t come close to having Dad around for real. Still, the daddy doll provided a lot of comfort for Alyssa and Liam….
A manager of a Texas printing company wanted to show her support for local law enforcement and came up with the idea of putting blue stripes on the back of her car, to represent the “thin blue line”. The term “thin blue line” refers to the concept that police officers are the difference between an…
An Italian course-haired hound named Bella was used for breeding and nothing else. And after she was “no good” at that anymore, she was abandoned on the streets of Athens, Greece, to survive on her own. Luckily for the ailing dog, she was spotted by a volunteer with SCARS, a dog rescue group in Greece….
After finding a starving dog, a kind-hearted Good Samaritan took it upon himself to start feeding her. The rescuer decided to help the Rottweiler himself and not call animal control as he did not want the dog to be given back to her owner, fearing the dog had been abused. According to the Good Samaritan,…
Hope For Paws arrived to rescue a dog living on the streets of Los Angeles and discovered a severely matted poodle. She was so matted that Eldad Hagar could not tell what sex she was at first. Once he rescued her, he named her Dolly. And Dolly didn’t have to wait long to begin her…
Animal rescuers sometimes go to extraordinary lengths to save lives, as the people in this video prove. It opens with two people pulling a rope out of a drain pipe with tremendous effort. This goes on for nearly a minute until finally at 0:57 a pair of feet appear. It’s a woman, but she’s not…
Cousins James, 9 and Kayden, 6, were playing in a park near west Mesa in Arizona this past summer when they heard a dog crying. The two went to investigate and found a dog tightly wedged between two walls. It was a very hot day, so James and Kayden asked a neighbor to try and…
Vashon Island Pet Protectors (VIPP) prefaced the following dog rescue with a “Huge Hankie Alert” because it is so heartwarming! VIPP volunteers had been searching for dogs Tillie and Phoebe for a week when they received a call from a person who told them “for the past few days a ‘reddish’ dog had been coming…
A lost dog helped get herself back home after she recognized her parents on television. How did it happen? The Bichon Poodle named Tabitha got lost when she was out for a walk with her dad, Alfred Schaefer. Alfred has Alzheimer’s and had wandered from home. When his wife, Kelly went out looking for them,…
At 94 years old, Shirley Batchelder has crossed a lot of items off her bucket list. But she had one last thing remaining on her list that wanted to get done. “I said there is one thing,” Shirley Batchelder told WSMV-TV. “I want to put an ad on television.” She wanted to share a few…
When Trax was first found he was stuffed in a plastic bag along some railway tracks and he had all four of his legs bound with shoelaces. He couldn’t bark or cry out because his muzzle was also wrapped tightly bound shut. Lourens van Wyk, a retired pastor in South Africa, was driving by the tracks when he…
This is a incredibly beautiful tribute to farmers. When audiences tuned in to Super Bowl XLVII a few years ago, they were surprised to hear a familiar voice. It was Paul Harvey, the well-known radio broadcaster, sharing his thoughts on the farmer. The clip is from a speech Harvey gave back in 1978, and it…
Here’s one cop stop that’s gone viral for all the right reasons. Deputy Nathan Sims sat down next to an old man in a wheelchair at a bus stop in Victorville, California recently while the man was waiting in the hot summer sun. Deputy Sims spent the next 40 minutes talking with the man until his…
A tattoo artist in Brazil is helping women transform their scars from domestic abuse into beautiful tattoos. For the past 2 years, Flavia Carvalho, tattoos women who have been victims of domestic abuse for free. She calls the her project “A Pele da Flor” (“the Skin of the Flower”). Carvalho has covered up scars that have…
In what police are calling “an unbelievable act of bravery”, a 9-year-old called 911 to report that his mom was drinking and driving while he was in the vehicle. Police would later arrest his mother for impaired driving. The shocking incident occurred on November 11, 2015 after York Regional Police in Ontario, Canada received a…
Baxter the dog goes through what many unloved dogs go through. Chained outside, and subjected to neglect and abuse, Baxter is not in a home filled with love. In this touching advertisement from Blue Cross animal charity, Baxter breaks free from his chains and runs away in search of a better life. As Baxter makes…
Poor Zorro is not yet 6 months old, but he has already endured a lifetime of pain. The poor little puppy was brought to Horizon Animal Hospital through the Bixby Police Department after they found him in a ditch. They believe Zorro was kept in a home where they made crystal meth, as he had…
Have you noticed that Thailand makes the most tear-jerking commercials out there? They just have an ability to reach for your heart in a way that other ads just can’t seem to duplicate. In this video, a store owner notices a homeless man sleeping outside of his shop every morning when he arrives. Instead of…
When three strangers saw a deputy being beaten, they all rushed to his aid, ensuring he would go home to his family. Florida Deputy Walsh was on duty when he pulled over a man for running a stop sign. But the driver, identified as Corey Johnson, slammed the door out on Deputy Walsh and began…
While visiting her local Texas Whataburger, Jill Becker Bay noticed a young boy approaching a table of cops and talking to them. During their chat, one of the cops tied the child’s shoelace and Jill snapped a photo of it. That image quickly went viral after she posted it to Facebook. “At one point one…
Meet Hope! Hope was just 4 months old when she was rescued from a parking lot in Burlington, Canada where she was found along with her mom and sister. The stray kitten would have had a slim chance of surviving on her own because she was born completely blind with two very tiny, non-functional eyes….
Have you seen a purple parking spot in your neighborhood? The unusually colored parking spaces have begun appearing all around the United States and are especially reserved for wounded veterans. The project is an initiative of The Wounded Warriors Family Support and they are working with city authorities and local businesses to set up the…
When Piney arrived at Vet Ranch he was homeless, scared, and full of quills! Piney started showing up at a lady’s house. The kind woman fed him but when he showed up peppered with porcupine quills she contacted the Vet Ranch for help. Piney had quills in his paws, face, nose and his tongue so…
Meet Bretagne. She’s the last known living search and rescue dog who worked at Ground Zero on 9/11. Her mom and handler is Denise Corliss. As members of Texas Task Force 1, they were part of the first deployment of search and rescue teams who helped save people trapped in the rubble at the World…
Have 14 years really passed since 9/11? For many, the terrorist attacks on America will be forever be etched in our memories. Eleven members of the United States Naval Academy’s Contemporary a capella group, the Anchormen, paid tribute to those that lost their lives on 9/11 with this performance a few years ago. The group…
This wonderful story is proof that friendships have the power to change lives! Raimundo Arruda Sobrinho was homeless in São Paulo, Brazil, for nearly 35 years, and became locally known for sitting in the same spot and writing every day. In April 2011, he was befriended by a young woman named Shalla Monteiro. Impressed by…
While Lt. Col. Jay Kopelman was fighting in Iraq several years ago, he stumbled across a 5-month-old puppy, who quickly won his heart. Kopelman named the puppy Lava and decided to keep him, even though it was against army regulations to keep a pet. But Kopelman could not bear to part with Lava, and with…
For many years, Meathead Movers has quietly been helping victims of domestic violence, offering their moving services to families for free. The company has partnered with many shelters in Fresno, California and recently announced that it has partnered with the nonprofit Good Shepherd Center for Homeless Women & Children to help at-risk families move out…
A sister and brother from Ireland are winning hearts on the Internet for their touching duet. Leah Kirwan starts strumming on her guitar with your younger brother, Noah by her side. Noah has Down syndrome and he loves music so she thought she would “do a duet with my favourite little man singing his favourite…
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