There’s a reason you get emotional when watching those dog reunion videos. Dogs do shed tears of joy. That’s according to a study out of Azabu University in Japan which measured tear volume of 22 dogs under different circumstances. The researchers said that the studied dogs shed “significantly” more tears of joy after getting back…
It’s been a brutal, hard summer for stray animals, tray Rescue of St. Louis shares. And Kanga is one of of the “lost souls” they just saved. His skin tells a terrible story of neglect and pain. His body is so broken down that it has even shocked the experienced rescuers. “We’ve seen many cases…
While this dog was visiting a zoo with his humans he became mesmerized by a group of howling wolves. He was so taken in that after a few seconds of listening he decides to join in, which leads to one wolf’s hilarious reaction. The video was filmed at a zoo in Neuruppin, Brandenburg, Germany and…
Elizabeth Potter was getting ready for work when she noticed her Saint Bernard, Everest, scratching and poking his head against the fence. What was he up to? Well, seconds later, it becomes clear when Bear, the neighbor’s 2-year-old English Mastiff sticks his head through a hole in the fence. Did the dogs make their own…
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…
“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…