Construction workers in La Paz, Bolivia came up with a clever solution to save a dog trapped in the middle of a raging river. It had been raining heavily and they noticed a little dog stuck on a rock with the river churning around him. They wanted to save the dog and figured they would…
A sweet dog named Josie hides a painful past under her skin. The dog was found huddled on the side of the road in Alabama with a friend by her side. She was badly injured, having been shot by a BB gun. Her body is riddled with the pellets and she lost her vision as…
When the staff at Humane Society of Catawba County (HSCC) first laid eyes on Marco, the dog was shivering inside a “frost-covered crate” that had been dumped on their property. “Found all alone, abandoned in a frost-covered crate, and shivering from staying out in the cold overnight, Marco was left on our property in a…
Three Pug mix puppies are in safe hands after being abandoned at an elementary school and spending the night sleeping outside in the cold. The Animal Rescue Center Of California (ARC) got a call from the principal at the school in Mecca, California and went out to rescue the pups. Kirk, who is with ARC,…
Sampson was found alone and scared in the woods in South Carolina and rescued by Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons (ARF). The puppy appeared to have mange but it turned out to be a rare auto-immune genetic condition that essentially made him un-adoptable. Knowing he would need ongoing care but also wanting to give…
Deanna Tsosie is known in her community for rescuing dogs. So when someone on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona saw a tiny puppy huddling in the parking lot at an Ace Hardware they reached out to her. “He is about 4–5 weeks old. He was supposedly dumped off there…,” Tsosie wrote on Instagram. When she…
Jenny Hazard’s Shih Tzu mix Bear has always loved adventure. But at nearly 17 years old she figured Bear’s “runner” days were behind him. But when he recently escaped her backyard he showed up in the last place she expected. Recently, Jenny was outside in the backyard of her Milwaukee home with her three dogs…
Luna knew her days at the Walton County Animal Shelter were numbered. That’s why she’s so excited to be watching her mom getting ready to take her home! Luna was found wandering on the streets of Florida and taken to Walton County Animal Services. She was there 11 days when a woman came by and…
A two-year-old stray dog found herself in a tight spot after she chased after a cat and got wedged inside the car engine area of a 1967 Chevy Nova. Emergency rescuers from the Arizona Humane Society in Phoenix were called out to help the stuck dog. When they arrived they found the Weimaraner mix wedged…
A Boston Terrier mix who had been hanging around a farmer’s market for over a month was finally rescued thanks to the persistence of a rescue volunteer. Workers at the market had been feeding the pup in hopes of catching him but he was too fast and ran away whenever someone tried to approach him…
Max the Golden Retriever would always walk halfway up the staircase in Shari Blivin’s home and have a nap. Over the years, the paint wore away on the one step that had become his favorite. Sadly, Max passed peacefully over Rainbow Bridge last year at the bottom of those very same stairs. Recently Blivin was…
A Husky named Kobe is being called a hero for saving a Pennsylvania neighborhood from a potential gas explosion. Recently, Kobe dug a hole in the front yard of his home. Many dog owners would think that behavior was pretty normal for a dog but his mom, Channell Bell, noted it because it was unusual…