An elderly Golden Retriever who had fallen into an icy pond and nearly drowned, was rescued by Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Larry LaVallee spotted the distressed dog one Thursday morning from his bathroom window overlooking the pond in Kippens, Western Newfoundland in Canada. He said he had first thought the object stuck in the ice…
A Pit Bull named Hank showed a remarkable will to survive and return home to his family after he became caught in an animal trap in the woods. Hank returned home on Christmas day after being missing for 20 days in the forest having taken extreme measures to free himself. His owner, Logan Langley, suspects…
A rescue dog missing for three weeks tracked down her owner to the Walmart where she works. June Rountree’s 4-year-old dog Abby went missing from her backyard on November 8th. The dog slipped her collar and disappeared without a trace. She and her husband searched the neighborhood and called the shelter but no one had…
When a dog named Leia went missing from her El Paso, Texas home during a storm, her owners Alma and Alberto Dominguez were heartbroken. They searched for their beloved dog for more than two years but with no luck. Then one day, Alma believed she had found her dog 700 miles away. She called Annmarie…
Angie the Cocker Spaniel is just 2 years old, but sometime in her young life she fractured her vertebrae and became paralyzed in her back legs. How and when remains a mystery. But what is known is that Angie’s owners brought her to the Miami-Dade Animal Services and surrendered her. And before they left, they…
Miranda Lambert has lost one of her best friends – Waylon, her rescue dog of almost 13 years. The country western singer found Waylon and his sister abandoned on the side of the road back in 2008. The pair were malnourished and unwell, but they pulled through. Lambert revealed that Waylon wasn’t supposed to survive…
A stray dog trying to stay alive in a San Antonio, Texas, neighborhood is safe thanks to one family taking the the time and effort to save him. “We noticed a dog roaming our neighborhood in the dead of Summer. He wouldn’t let anyone get close and would run through lanes of traffic to get…
A smart shelter dog named Squeaky, who was the Internet star of a viral video that showed her sneaking herself out of her kennel, was eventually adopted but only after months of waiting. Staff at the Great Plains SPCA in Kansas City, Missouri kept finding Squeaky outside of her kennel. They decided to use a…
A mother dog and her 10 puppies are safe in foster care after being rescued from a harrowing ordeal. A concerned citizen contacted the SPCA in Prince George, British Columbia after witnessing the four-year-old German short-haired pointer being beaten and force fed drugs and alcohol by her owner. The Good Samaritan also saw one of…
Danielle Zuckerman is a former Navy nuclear scientist with a serious spinal injury. She adopted Thor, a friendly Pit Bull, from Sammie’s Friends, a rescue in Grass Valley, California for her son and herself. But at the time, she had no way of knowing he would become a life-saver. Danielle suffers from epileptic seizures and…
Sparkle the puppy did not have much hope of survival when neighbors reached out to Animal Aid Unlimited in India. The street puppy was lying in the dirt and not moving. But as they approached to help him, he wagged his tail. Animal Aid Unlimited wrote: When we first saw this skinny puppy it looked…
This is a remarkable story of a Good Samaritan who took the time to notice a stray dog and in doing so, saved not only the dog but nine other lives! A Finnish man had seen a stray dog wandering around the edge of the forest in his town late in summer. Winter soon arrived…