When Oriany De Oliveira left home to work abroad, it meant leaving behind her beloved dog, Layla, with her family. She knew it would be difficult to not see her pup every day, and knew it would be hard on Layla too. Although she kept in touch with her mom over the phone, keeping in…
Dogs with hearing problems may face challenges dogs with full hearing do not, but that doesn’t limit their ability to communicate. Take this precious senior pug. He loves his humans so much he can’t help but “sing the song of his people” when they come home to greet him. He is so happy that he…
Search dog Fern sense of smell gets put to the test when she is tasked to find a canister filled with pork meat. That would be simple for most dogs, but she has to find it in the middle of a lake, under 7 meters (23 feet) of water and mud! Joined by her handler,…
A little pup who was the runt of the litter was not doing well when his family called Rachael from Sidewalk Specials. The puppy was shaking from the cold and Rachael could tell he wouldn’t make it unless he got more care. So she took him home to foster. In the following weeks, Pumpkin made…
While enjoying a nice sunny day in a New York City park, Violet the Cockatoo meets a dog and confuses the heck out of her by barking like a dog. The person who shot the cute video says the crowd had a “good laugh at it”, although the dog probably went away rethinking what dogs…
Stray Rescue of St. Louis was desperately looking for a female Pit Bull before a snow storm hit the city. After tracking her for about a week, they finally found her but not before the snow fell. “We knew she was staying in a row of abandoned houses, but we couldn’t figure out which one…