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…
When Annie McHound arrived at Stray Rescue of St. Louis she was covered in hundreds of fleas. And what her rescuers thought was motor oil on her fur turned out to be dry blood from all the insect bites! The dog had wandered into someone’s backyard for help and they called the Missouri-based rescue. Thank…
When Eleanor first stepped into a home, the puppy-mill dog was so overwhelmed by wide open spaces that she sought out the smallest room in the house. Having been kept in a tiny cage her whole life had left her afraid and uncertain. Her foster mom, Jill, said Eleanor was too afraid to even walk….
A stray dog found in blistering heat by the roadside by a Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper has been adopted by him. Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper Pumpy Tudors helped rescue the dog (now named Princess) after he received an alert from a Good Samaritan and saw her next to the side of an interstate. Princess had…
Rescue, recovery and adoption of abandoned dog with a painful wound on the neck. A Pit Bull was lying alone by the side of the road in the middle of nowhere when rescuers with Dog Rescue Shelter Mladenovac, Serbia found him. He had a painful gash on his neck. But despite his injuries, the friendly…
“I couldn’t believe someone would just come up to a park and push their dog out of a car and leave him.” That’s what Carl Anderson, an Air Force veteran, thought when he saw the Pit Bull dumped at night in the park across from where he lives in Colorado Springs last month. Anderson went…
With soaring temperatures in many States, over 100 million people have been cautioned to keep indoors and out of the heat. But what happens if you lose power, your air-conditioning and have dozens of dogs to look after? That’s the scary situation that faced the Franklin County Dog Shelter and Adoption Center in Colombus, Ohio…
Toy dog breeds are tiny, agile and adorable. But fit for police duty? It doesn’t spring first to mind, but in Japan small breeds have been part of Japanese police departments for 21 years! A toy poodle named Hannah recently joined police in Okayama, western Japan after passing a rigorous test. She joins other small…