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…
“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…
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…
A New York Police Officer who helped rescue a dog from a hot car has adopted him. It was a 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26 C) in June when concerned citizens called 911 to report a dog had been left in a car with the windows closed and had allegedly been inside for several hours. If…
It’s a miracle that a 3-month-old husky puppy is alive. The puppy was discovered inside a hot vehicle with his mouth taped shut while the outside temperature in Las Vegas was a sweltering 113 degrees Fahrenheit (45 Celsius). Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department received a call from hotel security and went to the top floor…
A nurse comforted an elderly patient in her final moments and eased her passing immensely by letting her know she had adopted her dog. Kim Still, a nurse At Northside Hospital Gwinnett in Georgia, was assigned to the terminally ill patient and the two made an instant connection. During their short friendship, the elderly woman…
A drowning dog is safe after he was reportedly thrown from a New York City bridge into the river below. The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) shared a social media post on July 19 that their firefighters responded to a report about “a dog that was thrown off a bridge into the Harlem River…
At just one-year-old Freddie would be left alone in the yard he had grown up in through no fault of his own. After his elderly owner died, it must have come as a terrible shock for him that there was no one around to take care of him. He was orphaned and all alone. Thankfully,…
Toad and Backpack are two pit bulls who bonded despite their sad history. The two dogs were among a group of neglected dogs saved by Slaughterhouse Survivors HRB in China and would have ended up at a meat market had they not been saved. Backpack, especially was in desperate shape. She was skin and bones…
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