A tiny, traumatized Shih Tzu won the hearts of many rescue volunteers in his short life. The dog named Gremlin, aka Gremmy, survived terrible abuse and neglect for years during his life at a puppy mill. At age four, the Shih Tzu was rescued by National Mill Dog Rescue (NMDR) where he “quickly became a…
Emma the German shepherd-cattle dog mix got treated to a special party to help her find a home. The shelter where she is staying threw Emma a “pitty party” after she became the first dog in seven years to have waited for over a year to find a forever home. The Surrey Animal Resource Centre…
The mother was shaking and her pups riddled with mange when they were brought to a sterilization drive put on by Sidewalk Specials in South Africa. The dogs’ owner had lost his job and couldn’t afford to feed them. “A little box of misery was pulled out of the queue at Steri Drive 8,” Sidewalk…
This sweet dog seems to know that her little human shouldn’t be opening drawers and closes the drawer every time the baby opens it. The dog’s mothering delights the baby, who can’t stop giggling. It looks like the dog knows that her humans need to childproof their home! But mom says that it’s actually a…
“It was a relatively routine Wednesday afternoon when our Animal Law Enforcement (ALE) team received a call about a dog stuck on a cliff overlooking Fountain Creek,” Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region (HSPPR) wrote on Facebook. They had received a call from a man who was just enjoying a coffee outside of his…
No dog should be without a stuffed animal friend. But as this video hilariously demonstrates, every dog parent knows why we end up buying so many of them for our dogs. There are attempts to repair them and sometimes that works. But when it doesn’t, many of us do what Samantha Copley does. She goes…
A cute dog who doesn’t like to eat alone is warming the hearts of dog lovers. In the short clip shared to YouTube, the small dog is seen at her dinner bowl. She’s eating with her stuffed toy mouse next to her when she stops to gently lift her mouse so it can eat with…
Gracie is a Border Collie with a very unusual dog. She keeps wildlife and humans a safe distance from each other at Glacier National Park. She also helps deter predator/human encounters! Nicknamed the “Bark Ranger”, Gracie can been seen at work on her Instagram page where National Park Services (NPS) regularly shares videos of her…
Recently, police found a senior Pit bull wandering the streets and brought him to Niagara SPCA in New York. “(Lloyd) has these sad eyes. We don’t know what he went through in his life,” Amy Lewis, executive director at the Niagara SPCA told WGRZ-TV of the 12-year-old dog. They were saddened too when they found…
A redditor who shared a photo of a sign in a front yard with a dog “sulking” in the background has prompted a lot of opinions from dog lovers. The post about the dramatic dog seems cute to some redditors but has alarmed many others. Redditor micindra recently posted the photo captioning it, “Found in…
A tiny puppy left behind by his owners was found carrying a piece of bread around that he offered to his rescuers. Anaemic, suffering from tick bite fever and eye infections, little Gunnar was lucky to be alive in more ways than one. Sidewalk Specials learned that his owners in the Groendal township of Franschoek…
Emma was the tiniest puppy when she was found with her sibling in a plastic crate in a drain pipe. She was near death and guarding her dying sibling by Sidewalk Specials in Cape Town, South Africa. “Covered in mange, with tick bite fever weakening her, she still found the energy to follow rescuers, alerting…