It was a Christmas present they were not expecting. Detroit Animal Welfare Group received over 400 parakeets on Christmas eve, surrendered by a son who found them at his father’s home. “We were in shock also but could not turn them away as they were all crammed in 7 cages and smothering each other and…
She wasn’t expecting to have a house full of large puppies just before Christmas. But when this dog rescuer received a message to come save nine dogs on a mountain highway in Northern California, she drove to where they were dumped and squeezed all the dogs into her hatchback. Redditor LostWingnut shared a heartwarming video…
“We received a sad phone call about puppies in a literal dump today.” That’s how an hours-long rescue of a litter of puppies began for volunteers with Bright Eyes Dog Rescue in Saskatchewan, Canada. A Good Samaritan spotted the puppies when visiting the dump and called the animal rescue. Volunteers immediately went out to the…
Every year the homeless dogs at Dogs Trust Ireland get to choose their own Christmas present at the Secret Santa Paws put on just for them. Shelter staff line up the toys on the floor and let the dogs in their Rehoming Centre pick the toy they want. Needless to say the dogs are very…
A woman came to the rescue of three kittens that were intentionally thrown into the river. A group of children were playing in the park along the banks of the Tuga River in Nowy Dwór Gdański, northern Poland on a Sunday evening in August 2021 when they heard the desperate meowing coming from a white…
A jogger in a California neighborhood was in the right place at the right time to help save a family’s home and their beloved pets from a house fire. Courtney Polito and her family were out of town when a Good Samaritan noticed smoke coming from their roof. The man quickly ran to their door…
Joe Reinhart is a bartender whose fast thinking helped save a young co-worker’s life. Joe posted the security footage to TikTok showing him walking into the restaurant’s kitchen just as an employee was choking on a large piece of a chicken sandwich. He immediately tries to dislodge the food from the teen’s throat, grabbing the…
Video of a man appearing to be forcefully removed from a restaurant has gone viral on the Internet prompting local police to investigate. Restaurant goers at a restaurant in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada witnessed an unpleasant altercation between a man attempting to bring his service dog into the restaurant. In the video filmed by a bystander,…
When this family saw an elderly dog struggling they decided to lend a hand. They explained on TikTok that they saw the dog “having a hard time walking” adding that “his legs kept giving out.” So they grabbed their wagon and went over to the pet parent and dog to offer it as a means…
A Louisiana high school was plagued with violence until a group of dads stepped forward to help. Students at Southwood High School in Shrevenport were repeatedly getting into fights. It got so bad recently that 23 students were arrested over three days! Concerned fathers with “Dads on Duty” – a group of 40 men who…
New Zealand Police’s emergency line received an unusual call recently that they thought was “too cute not to share.” In the incident, a toddler called 111 (the 911 equivalent in New Zealand to North America). The emergency dispatcher calmly asks the young boy why he is calling to which the boy responds with a question:…
Dramatic footage of children being rescued from a burning building has people applauding the bravery and quick thinking of neighbors. A fire broke out in an apartment building in Kostroma, Russia trapping several children inside. A neighbor across the street filmed Good Samaritans scaling the apartment’s drain pipe to free the children from the fire….
It started innocently enough. Trevor Cork, who owns Speedy Auto Glass in Listowel, Ontario in Canada put up a sign with a question for the Dairy Queen restaurant across the street: “Hey DQ, wanna have a sign war?” Amy Hamilton, owner of the Dairy Queen, accepted the challenge. But what neither knew was that their…
A British woman mistakenly joined the wrong Facebook group and ended up making new friends in a country thousands of miles away. Sue Perry was looking to give away some odds and ends so thought she would join a Facebook group from her local town of Wakefield, England. But she accidentally ended up joining a…
The COVID pandemic has been tough for many people, especially for the millions who have lost their job and become unable to afford rent. Rosa, a cleaning woman in New York, recently lost her job due to COVID and had to go live at her sister’s home because she could no longer afford a place…
A new set of dancers are joining the Snow Queen, the Sugar Plum Fairy, The Tsar of the Mice and the Nutcracker to take centre stage – a group of homeless dogs in search of families! Rescue dogs from Stray Rescue of St. Louis are joined by dancers from Saint Louis Ballet in a delightful…
Parents planning to trick-or-treat with their kids this year have plenty of fears to tackle with COVID-19. But many people are rising to the challenge and coming up with creative ways to give out candies from a safe social distance. Their preferred method? Candy chutes. “It’s going to take nothing short of the GD apocalypse…
A lost toddler was found being protected by a large stray dog on the streets of St. Louis, Missouri after getting out of his father’s home on his own. According to FOX 2, the young boy named Kh’amorion Taylor was wearing his pajamas and wandering down a street on the morning of October 1st with…
A four-year-old girl dining with her mother at the restaurant was saved from a violent attack after an unknown man attempted to grab her. The girl, her mother and another woman were dining at a restaurant in Florida, a town west of Johannesburg, South Africa when a man leapt over the patio’s barricade and attacked…
Every night YouTuber CanyonChasers was getting alerts from his driveway security camera. And every time he checked the camera to see what was going on it was the same thing – a tiny kid on a bike going up and down his cemented driveway. At first, the man admits that he was a bit annoyed….
Thanksgiving is a time for families to get together, so why not include a shelter animal in the festivities? That’s what Richmond Animal Care & Control (RACC) in Virginia thought when it created their annual “Thanksgiving Foster” drive, an event where people can invite a foster animal into their home for Thanksgiving. RACC is hoping…
A woman is sheltering 97 rescue dogs in her home as Hurricane Dorian sweeps through the Bahamas. Chella Phillips, of Nassau, has helped save nearly 1,000 homeless dogs over the past four years as manager of The Voiceless Dogs of Nassau, Bahamas. But her experience over the past few days during one of the most…
A lost dog who was spotted perched precariously on a cliff’s ledge has been rescued thanks to a dedicated group of firefighters. Firefighters in Grande Prairie, Alberta stumbled across the dog by accident when responding to a different call. An officer with Grand Prairie Regional Fire Service spotted the dog – but the dog’s location…
A post of a teenager’s public library checkout receipt has gone viral for revealing how much money he have saved by borrowing books. It seems like a strange thing to go viral, but the receipt has sparked debate and enthusiasm among book lovers. Sixteen-year-old Keegan Adreon posted his receipt on reddit that showed that he…
A playful dog who demanded belly rubs from the parish priest after crashing a church service in Brazil has gone viral around the world. The dog named Herman joined parishioners in the Barrio Floresta (Nossa Senhora das Dores) and approached Father José Geraldo Sobreira who was leading mass. The dog entered after mass had begun…
A dog found huddled in bus shelter and shivering from the cold is alive and well thanks to transit workers who acted quickly to rescue him. The lost dog was spotted by a bus passenger at a bus stop in Regina, Saskatchewan, which has been getting record cold weather this past week. Darren Szabo, a…
He was playing at a brake check when Archer got hit by another trucker and ran away. A dog who spent three cold nights on a wintery mountain highway had a happy reunion with his owner after being rescued by a snow plower. Carlie Holman is a VSA Highway Maintenance worker and was snowplowing the…
A security camera outside a café in Turkey caught a woman’s unexpected gesture of kindness towards a stray dog shivering in the cold. The woman, later identified as Duygu Elma, was heading out into the street on a grey day in the town of Zonguldak when she saw a black and white dog curled up…
Students at an Illinois high school were greeted by an unusual sight in their hallways when they returned from Christmas break – large, eye-popping book covers adorning the walls. Hallways at high schools are usually drab and dull, painted with beiges, whites or greys that students shuffle by without noticing. But Mundelein High School is…
It seems every day there’s a video of thieves stealing packages from unsuspecting homeowners. It’s so commonplace that people have begun coming up with elaborate booby traps to thwart them, and online retailers like Amazon have begun selling package lock boxes. But in this video, a package thief got caught the old-fashioned way – on…
An artist in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho is charming the Internet with her repurposing of an old rotting tree. Sharalee Armitage Howard had a 100-plus year old cottonwood tree rotting outside of her home. The tree was becoming dangerous but rather than cut it down completely she decided to make it into something the whole neighborhood…
The beaches in Brazil see millions of visitors every year, so it’s no wonder that sometimes children can become separated from their parents with all the bustle. But beachgoers have a simple but effective alarm to help parents locate their lost children. With no broadcasting system to cover the large stretch of sand, bystanders clap…
A group of kids make the Christmas story their own in this funny video produced by Southland Christian Church in Kentucky. In this hilarious twist the kids are the narrators and the adults are the performers. The result is a new contemporary interpretation of Mary and Joseph’s story. For instance, the three wise men now…
As disaster groups continue to comb the charred landscape that was once Paradise, California, two men are working to help reunite families with cats thought lost in the fire. Shannon Jay, who describes himself as a “cat rescuer”, and Douglas Thron, a drone videographer, have been searching through the remains of the deadly Camp Fire…
An impromptu photo snapped by a customer at an Indiana McDonald’s has gone viral for capturing a sweet moment between strangers. Amanda Marquell Craft was at her local restaurant in Noblesville when she saw an older woman ask a young man sitting alone if she could join him at his table. He agreed and when…
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