Meet the Fastest Wiener Dog in the West, Beenie Von Weenie! Beenie was just one of the 104 dachshunds who competed in this year’s Wienerschnitzel Wiener Nationals at the Los Alamitos Race Course. Spectators usually come to the track to watch horses race, but on this special night the track literally goes to the dogs….
Jersey Pits Rescue and Ramapo-Bergen Animal Refuge teamed up to rescue Fig, a severely emaciated homeless puppy. They picked him up off the streets and put him in the car to rush him to emergency. As soon as Fig was in the car, he leaned on his rescuer’s arm and looked up into her eyes….
A starving puppy with severe mange is doing so much better now thanks to dog rescuers who rescued her from the streets on the island of Saipan. The puppy was covered with raw wounds and curled up in the bushes. When rescuers reached out to touch her she cried out in fear and pain. She…
Diana was on vacation when she saw a puppy dragging her hind legs painfully on the ground. She decided to help the injured dog and picked her up. While giving the puppy comfort, Diana thought the puppy might have to be euthanized. But she learned the pup, who she named Pinta, had two broken hind…
Two dogs abandoned by their family at their home and left to starve are on the road to recovery thanks to a timely rescue. Left alone for possibly weeks, the two dogs now named Gregory and Zak, were without food, without water and had to endure the sweltering summer heat. “There was a bag of…
When Mr. Man joined Stray Rescue of St. Louis a few weeks ago he was emaciated, covered in scabs and had engorged ticks in his years. The Pit Bull was rescued by a woman who found him and “drove for hours in hot, stormy weather to get him help.” Mr. Man arrived on a day…
A stray dog was in deep trouble after being buried alive. But thanks to the heroic effort of a SPCA officer the dog was saved in time. Cape of Good Hope SPCA in South Africa received a call from a concerned citizen who had seen a dog hiding under a concrete slab only to be…
Daisy is a Labrador Retriever with a nose for detecting lost property. If you lose a golf disc at the Grand Vue Park she’s probably going to sniff it out and retrieve it. The 4-year-old dog has been so successful at finding lost discs that she’s collected over 150 of them over three years. Every…
After nearly a year of waiting anxiously, a shelter dog has gotten her happy tails ending thanks to a dedicated foster parent. Hazey was adopted as a puppy, but five years later she turned up as a stray and was picked up by DeKalb Animal Services. An unintentionally unflattering adoption photo and her “terrible kennel…
A stray dog found wandering alone in the desert and blinded by porcupine quills is on the mend thanks to the kind people who rescued him. A woman found Willy in desperate shape in a rural eastern Utah area. He was “barely hanging on for life, dehydrated, emaciated, covered in fleas, and with severe injuries…
Suzette Hall regularly finds and rescues stray dogs she sees in Southern California. But every now and then she’ll come across a dog or two who call out to be rescued no matter what. The other day she received a call from a woman who had seen a pair of dogs snuggled together on a…
When Lee from the Asher House went to Los Angeles to rescue Rain he was told that the Dalmatian dog had been found tied up in a park. The dog was not doing well in the shelter and would chew herself because of extreme anxiety. She chewed her foot so badly she couldn’t walk. Rain…