The heartwarming moment a stolen cockatoo recognizes his mom has come to get him is leaving animal lovers in tears. Over a month ago, Tofu the Umbrella Cockatoo was stolen from Feathered Follies in Concord, California when burglars broke in and stole Tofu and another bird, Plato the African Red Belly. The thieves left behind…
Canadian Curt Sheewe is used to seeing black bears in his North Vancouver neighborhood. There’s one particular bear who regularly comes by his home. But there’s one thing he has a problem with – it’s the bear’s habit of knocking holes in his fence. Sheewe has lived on his property for nearly 10 years, and…
A terrified bull terrier tied up to a fence during Hurricane Milton is safe and all smiles in his foster home. Florida Highway Patrol spotted the dog along the side of a highway in Florida standing waist deep in the rising floodwaters just before the hurricane was about to make landfall. Tallahassee Trooper, as he…
Alyce Johnson had an emotional reunion with her dog, Midnight, after the 4-year-old Pit Bull mix was kidnapped and found thousands of miles away. Midnight was abducted near the Alaska-Yukon border by a stranger in late September. Alyce and her family searched everywhere for Midnight but feared the worst—that she may have fallen prey to…
A young boy trapped under rubble after a mudslide destroyed his family’s home is alive today thanks to the shelter dog he rescued. Jaime was at home with his grandparents and sister, near Asheville, North Carolina, when a mudslide caused by Hurricane Helene slammed into their house. He was thrown across the room, face-planting into…
A man and his dog were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard after being stranded on a boat during Hurricane Helene. With 60-mile-per-hour winds battering the area, the rescue proved challenging for both the Coast Guard swimmer and the helicopter crew. They arrived off the coast of Sanibel Island in Florida as giant waves pummelled…
How did he even do it? That’s what Ben and Susanne Anguiano are wondering about the miraculous journey their lost cat made. Several months ago, while Ben and Susanne were in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming with their two cats, one of their cats, Rayne Beau, escaped and ran into the woods. They looked for…
A young girl had an emotional meeting earlier this week when she met the woman who saved her life. Two years ago, Sophie Cromer, now eight years old, was diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia. The only cure would be a bone marrow transplant. The Alabama family began to search for a match. That match turned…
A dog is happily reunited with his family after he went missing for a year and was found in a dangerous situation. Leo the French Bulldog went missing from his backyard in Dearborn, Michigan last August. His family was heartbroken when they couldn’t find him, and later they moved to Arizona for a job, thinking…
Chester, a 14-year-old dog, is alive thanks to two boys who saved him from drowning. Jacob Jensen and Mason Willet were fishing with Jacob’s grandfather, Vern Wagner, when they spotted a dog named Chester struggling to keep his head above water in Sugar Lake, near Mille Lacs, Minnesota. “The dog was bobbing up and down,…
Tyson Cash runs a doggy daycare business along with his wife in Franklin County, Georgia. As part of their daily routine, he buses to his clients and picks the dogs up. But recently, when he stopped by a client’s home, he noticed a new dog sitting next to his regular dog client, Motley. Tyson, who…
A New Zealand adventurer and YouTuber on a cross Canada canoe trip unexpectedly ended up saving the life of a dog in Manitoba. Tom Hudson is a sailboat captain who began his cross country canoe trip recently when he came across a trapped dog in a Manitoba river. Hudson heard a faint bark coming from…
A Rotweiler and her four puppies are alive thanks to the heroic efforts of one man helping during the disaster relief in the California Park wildfire. Last Wednesday, the dogs became stranded in the wildfire that is raging across Northern California, having razed more than 380 thousand acres and continues to burn. “On Wednesday evening,…
A dog dumped on a trash pile and at risk of being euthanized has found a safe place after a South Carolina animal rescue saved her. Sydney (formerly known as Sadie) was found in a dumpster by Cumberland County Animal Services in Fayetteville, North Carolina, after her owner abandoned her there. Soon after, they put…
An 86-year-old man was saved by his Pit Bull after a neighbor showed up at his back door and attacked him. Ned Tarmey was home alone with the family dog, Kane, on Sunday morning in Manchester, New Hampshire when the bizarre incident occurred. He went to let Kane outside when he was surprised by his…
Two hikers came across a disturbing sight last week when they found a German Shepherd with his mouth and neck zip-tied in a remote area of Malibu Creek Canyon in California. The two people spotted the dog behind boulders in an area popular with rock climbers. The dog was visibly distressed, but they were fortunately…
An old dog rescued from the heat is amazing her rescuers with her will to survive. Stray Rescue of St. Louis was called by Good Samaritans about a stray dog as “old as the hills” who had collapsed on the streets in the hot weather. The Good Samaritans had seen the dog’s picture on Facebook…
Bob Gist and Brad Carlisle got more than they bargained for when they went fishing this past weekend on Lake Grenada in Mississippi. The two friends had just headed out with their guide, Jordan Chrestman, when they noticed something strange. Bobbing in the water was a large pack of dogs! The dogs, all wearing GPS…
Wesley, a 2-year-old Great Pyrenees, needed to learn how to love after arriving at Austin Pets Alive! in a terrible state. He came to them basically “feral” with a bad neck wound and fearing people. “Wesley spent the last year of his life with a rope collar knotted so tightly around his neck, it left…
“I didn’t think I’d have to deal with this today,” Spencer Warren said when he arrived at work only to find a baby moose stuck between his float plane and the dock. Spencer had just pulled up to work when he heard a strange bleating coming from the lake. When the pilot-in-training at Destination Alaska…
Life is looking a lot brighter for a pug named Dory. The young pug was not only rescued from a field where she had been dumped after giving birth to puppies but she’s been welcomed into the home of a loving family. That home just happens to be the home of Doug the Pug, a…
A heartbreaking photo showing the plight of one dog who has spent over half a year in the shelter has gone viral after the shelter appealed for help finding him a home. For the latest pupdate scroll to the bottom of this article. “This is what 128 days of shelter life looks like for dogs…
A small dog was found in a disgusting place over the weekend by an officer at the Guelph Lake Conservation Area in Ontario, Canada. A Chihuaua was at the bottom of an outhouse, trapped inside the ground-holding tank of the public toilet. The poor dog was covered in human waste and malnourished. The Guelph Humane…
Rescuers were greeted by a heartbreaking scene when they answered an urgent call from a Good Samaritan who witnessed a puppy being abandoned in a crate. The man had thought the people were dumping old tires in a lot next to his but when he went over he was shocked to find an emaciated Pit…
A story of a missing husky discovered to be playing with a group of bears in Russia after his owner deployed a drone to find him is making the rounds on social media. The footage is quite remarkable, showing a dog running beside and bounding up to three bears as they make their way through…
A dog spooked after being involved in a car crash raced to one place she knew would be safe – her doggy day care. Ares, a 3-year-old Pit Bull mix, was out for a car ride with her mom, Melissa Fickel, when a vehicle hit Melissa’s car. The pair were headed to the dog park…
Recently, on a very cold day in Lewisville, Texas, a young homeless man’s life was about to be turned around thanks to a simple act of kindness. Doug Evans and his wife Kylie were out driving when they saw a man shivering in the cold. It was around 12 degrees Fahrenheit outside (-11C). Their heart…
A police officer responding to a call about a dog on the loose ended up helping the dog not once but twice. Last week, Good Samaritans tried to catch a dog running on the streets in South Bend, Indiana. But the dog was too scared of them so they notified the police. When South Bend…
A stray dog trapped in a shipping container could easily have ended up shipped overseas but thanks to some observant U.S.Coast Guards she is safe. The U.S. Coast Guard Heartland shared that their team of marine inspectors were randomly inspecting shipping containers at the Port of Houston when they heard barking and scratching from one…
Ali Zacarias was enjoying a meal outside a downtown Los Angeles Whole Foods with Onyx, her beloved one-year-old French Bulldog, at her feet when a woman passing by called to Onyx and grabbed Onyx from under the table and ran away. Shocked and stunned, Zacarias thought it was a misunderstanding at first but she saw…
A 65-year-old man who fell through the ice at Arbutus Lake in Grand Traverse County, Michigan was rescued thanks in large part to his dog Ruby. At 11:45 a.m. on Thursday, Michigan State Police Motor Carrier Officer Kammeron Bennetts responded to a 911 call after bystanders noticed the man fall through the ice. When Officer…
Retired postman Rodney Holbrook observed something curious going on in his shed. During the day he’d leave things out on his workbench but when he came in the morning his things had been mysteriously put away. What was going on? “At first I noticed that some food that I was putting out for the birds…
A severely abused dog who spent nearly 500 days in a shelter has finally found a forever home. A Pit Bull mix named Neo suffered a terrible past. He ended up in an Arkansas shelter but after spending nearly 2 years there, the shelter staff reached out to Best Friends for help. Ali Paepke, at…
What was supposed to be a one day visit to Kentucky’s Hopkinsville Police Department has become a permanent home for a Pit Bull named Bolo. His new home also comes with a new role – Paw-trol Officer. The department shared the news of Bolo’s adoption and swearing in ceremony in a video. The department wrote…
A Jack Russell terrier who demonstrated unwavering loyalty in the face of a harrowing ordeal is back with her family. Finney and her owner, Richard Moore, were hiking Blackhead Peak in the Colorado Mountains on August 19th when they never returned home. The faithful small dog was recently found alive next to Moore’s body having…
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