While climate change is debated among the world leaders, people from around the world are becoming increasingly active in highlighting their concerns about the impact pollution is having on their daily lives. A Chinese performance artist named Nut Brother decided to do something unusual to visualize Beijing’s problem with smog. The Chinese capital has been…
Teachers often play a vital role in encouraging their students not only in learning, but also in feeling good about themselves and broadening their views of the world. When Charlie Owens received this letter from his teacher after taking a standardized test, it speaks volumes as to how some teachers really do get to know…
Sometimes kindness comes in quiet, small gestures. When I think about what shelter animals go through every day – confined to kennels and surrounded by strangers – it must be a scary experience. Thank goodness there are volunteers who take the time to help the homeless dogs and cats as best they can. One person…
Hope For Paws regularly rescues stray dogs in desperate condition off the streets of Los Angeles. When they were told about Julia, she was walking on on the streets of South Central, disoriented and clearly very sick. But from the moment Eldad Hagar saw her, he knew she was special. She was no less sick…
Pedro Dinis was out for a walk with a friend and his dog for what they thought was going to be a casual stroll but ended up being in the right place at the right time to save a life. They had almost finished their walk when they found a dog cruelly buried alive! Only…
There’s a popular park in Raleigh, North Carolina that many families enjoy called Landfill Park. There are bike paths, playgrounds, picnic areas and trails to walk your dog. The park also has a history that many people are unaware of, but that was recently highlighted by a simple chalk message on one of the park’s…
Photographer Sam Edmonds was visiting Dhaka, Bangladesh a few years ago when he met a group of orphaned and impoverished children who have formed special friendships with the street dogs of the city. The homeless children and dogs lived in Robindra Shorbod, a small park in one of the poorest areas of the city. Despite…
One homeless man’s devotion to his dogs and their journey across the States has touched the hearts of dog lovers. So much so, that several animal rescuers and kind-hearted individuals have assisted him and his 11 strays reach their final destination and set them up with everything they need to make a fresh start. The…
I had a hard time holding back the tears watching this wonderful moment. Bailey Matthews, 8, has been fighting cerebral palsy his entire life. But he doesn’t let it keep him from challenging himself. Recently, he competed in the Castle Howard Triathlon in North Yorkshire, England. After completing a 100m lake swim, 4,000m bike and…
This stray dog wandered through the streets looking for food and looking for shelter, but her body spoke to the misery of life as a homeless dog. Her body was riddled with parasites eating away at her skin and she was starving to death. But someone decided to not look away. And from that moment…
Wendy Bradshaw is an early childhood education teacher with a Masters and Ph.D. in the field. A passionate advocate of learning, and a dedicated teacher, she recently resigned from her teaching position that she held for five years. She posted her resignation letter to Facebook, to share her reasons why she left teaching, and what…
When Kristy the puppy first arrived at the animal shelter she was sickly and miserable and because of her poor health she was destined to be euthanized until Vet Ranch stepped in to save her. They knew that the mange she was infected with could be easily cured and set out on a treatment to…
This is the story of Rusty Diamond, a dog who was chained for over 10 years with no one to love until one day a stranger decided to help. Jared Piper noticed a dog chained up in a backyard all alone and out in the Arizona heat. “Over the course of 3 years, I had…
“Petra is starved, in pain, and exhausted – she can barely move. She’s been fighting far too many things for too long,” wrote Save A Greek Stray when they first saw her and knew they had to rescue her. The dog had been living on the streets of Oropos, a rural area of Athens, Greece…
When this man lost his job and his home, he had to make the difficult choice to give up his dog, Reece, to the Great Plains SPCA in order to give Reece a chance to find a family who could better take care of him. However, nearly a year later, after the man’s life had…
Halloween has come and gone, but a real-life menace was discovered by two families in Canada when they reported finding razor blades in children’s Halloween candy. Police in southwestern Ontario are warning parents and children to be vigilant of tampering after two families found what appeared to be razor blades hidden in candy bars that…
Biker and father Luc Perreault was test driving his mother’s motorcycle when he pulled into a Tim Horton’s for a break. While there, a little girl smiled and said “hello” to him, and he replied with a “hi” of his own. But the girl’s mother snatched the little girl away and told her “we don’t…
A stray Pit Bull is being hailed as a hero after the dog came to the rescue of a woman being attacked by a man with a knife. The dog was wandering the streets of Baldwin, Georgia when he came between a man and woman arguing and was stabbed five times as a result. Sgt….
Grant loves to dance, play instruments, to draw and to cook! He loves to do all kinds of things that other kids his age do. But he admits his feelings get hurt when people call him a baby, when he’s actually 6 years old. That’s because Grant was born with diastrophic dysplasia, a rare form…
Kyle Schwartz of Doull Elementary in Denver loves teaching her students, but knows that many of them come from underprivileged homes. “Ninety-two percent of our students qualify for free and reduced lunch,” Schwartz tells ABC News. “As a new teacher, I struggled to understand the reality of my students’ lives and how to best support…
Angelo Mondragon said he felt something brush against his leg when he entered the water of Lake Windsor in Windsor, Colorado. When he looked down he saw a tiny foot just beneath the surface – it was three-year-old Sitlali Hernandez, who was unconscious and drowning. The plumber by profession grabbed the little girl in his…
When Animal Aid Unlimited in India first saw this puppy, she had collapsed on the side of the road unable to stand. But when they approached her, her tail wouldn’t stop wagging. She had canine distemper, which is often fatal within 14 days. But the stray puppy had a strong will to live and after…
A beloved teacher was honored by all his students in a way that will touch your the heart. Dawson Tamatea was a legendary teacher at Palmerston North Boy’s High School in New Zealand. He joined the all-boys school where he taught Physical Education and Math for nearly 30 years. When he recently passed away, the…
At six weeks old Tuffy chewed his owner’s mobile phone. In response his owner poured a pot of boiling water over him and threw him off a fourth floor balcony onto the concrete below. A young woman named Yan found Tuffy and rescued him. Every day for two weeks she took him to a local…
Romeo and Juliet were picked up as strays, roaming the streets of Los Angeles and then left at a shelter for over a month. It turns out that Juliet is blind and looked to Romeo for support. But hope was around the corner and soon they were on their freedom ride. Not long after that,…
Danielle Eden and her husband Rob Scheinberg have always had a deep love for dogs. Growing up in Israel, Danielle began fostering dogs at a young age and often adopted dogs from a local shelter. She met Rob in Israel and the two moved to Canada with their four rescued street dogs, From The Grapevine…
A man encountered a homeless Marine, his wife and 4-year-old when out shopping. It’s an experience that touched him deeply. So much so that he had to write about it and in doing so, helped the family in a way he could not have imagined. Here’s what he wrote: “Just experienced something that shook me…
Oklahoma City police officer Sergeant Ryan Stark and his K-9 partner, Kye, were in pursuit of a suspect when the criminal stabbed the 3-year-old police dog. Sergeant Ryan Stark fatally shot the suspect, but tragically it was too late for Kye. He is the city’s first K-9 to be killed in the line of duty….
Biking in cities has its share of road hazards, but one man in São Paulo, Brazil was mightily ticked off by someone who parked their car right in the way of the bike lane. The strongman took matters into his own hands and literally picks up the car and moves it out of the way!…
After they had exhausted all medical treatments, doctors for James Watham prescribed a non-traditional medicine for the ailing 73-year-old. Visits from his best friend – his dog Bubba, but first they had to find him. James was hospitalized at Baptist Health Corbin and had to leave Bubba behind when he was checked in. The nurses…
A dog got a second chance after being hit by a car when he was spotted by a soldier next to an Oklahoma highway. The soldier was heading to Arkansas to report for duty when she saw the hurt German Shepherd off to the side of the road. “He was hurt and the temperature outside…
One Pit Bull’s heroic actions inspired a change of heart in a town that had banned Pit Bulls. Back in March 2015, Jamie Kraczkowski was being attacked by her drunk ex-boyfriend when her Pit Bull, Isis, leaped to her defense and scared him away. “Finally, when my head got hit against the wall [by my…
When the nuns from Our Lady of Christian Doctrine lost their dog, they decided to visit their local shelter and bring home a dog who they knew didn’t have a chance of adoption. That’s when they met a 9-year-old Pit Bull named Remy. She had spent months at Hi Tor Animal Care Center, and her…
When doctors told George Pickering II that his son was brain dead, and that they would be removing him from life support, George thought the hospital was moving too fast. What followed was a dangerous and desperate plea from a father to give his son a few more hours to see if he would recover….
One of history’s most beloved and famous dog and human friendships is the one between an Akita named Hachiko and his owner Hidesaburo Ueno. The dog’s story is so revered that his presence is still felt in and around Tokyo, Japan where he lived 100 years ago. The story still resonates today because it is…
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