When Valia first saw Bono, the puppy was begging for some food and some love. She rescued the 5-month-old pup and brought him to a local shelter in Greece who she worked with because at the time it was impossible for him to foster him for personal reasons. Valia of The Orphan Pet says at…
It was frightening ordeal that no dog lover would want to experience. Dakota, aka Loppy the dog, was playing with her dog walker at a park in Brooklyn, New York, when she got loose and ran away. The scared dog ran to a familiar place, the New York subway, where she ended up inside the…
A dog refused to be prey for a pack of hungry wolves in the snowy landscape of Abruzzo in southern Italy. The startling footage captured by local Paolo Forconi shows the golden dog in the distance as he is hunted down by three menacing wolves. The wolves have got the higher ground and appear to…
A grieving dog who lost her five puppies shortly after birth has adopted a monkey in the Colombian city of Cartagena. According to Colombian police, the capuchin monkey was removed from his natural habitat when he was just an infant and given to the dog shortly after her puppies died. The dog nursed the monkey…
A K9 is without his partner after Officer Eric Joering was shot and killed in the line of duty. But plans are underway for the dog to be retired and become a full-time family member of the Joering’s family after their devastating loss. K9 Sam, of the the Westerville Division of Police in Ohio, was…
Retailers across the United States pulled at least 31 varieties of dog food off the shelves after an investigation found the food contained the euthanasia drug, pentobarbital. The lethal drug is most commonly used for euthanazition of dogs, cats and horses. The FDA launched an investigation after an investigative news story by WJLA detected the…
Hope For Paws were called about a homeless young poodle wandering the streets of Los Angeles. Matted and grey with dirt, Paddington was scared and reluctant to be rescued. But the moment they leash him, he seems to know he’ll be safe from now on. Watch his heartwarming rescue in the video below.
A veterinarian is cautioning dog owners to be wary of otters after three of them nearly drowned her dog. Dr. Claudia Campbell’s Golden Retriever, Goldie, was out on a walk when she decided to go for a swim in the ocean at a beach on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The dog spotted an otter and…
A male dog was signed over to a kill shelter only had a few hours left to live because his owner claimed that he is gay. The former owner said his dog was seen “hunched over” another male dog. Due to the dog’s mounting behavior, the man discarded the dog at Jackson Rabies Control because…
A small dog waged a dramatic battle to stay alive inside a garbage truck and miraculously survived. Shocking CCTV footage released by the RSPCA Queensland shows the dog fighting for his life as mountains of rubbish pour on top of him. In what rescuers are calling a “miracle”, the small dog survived the harrowing ride…
Sting the Greyhound loves story time, but when he recently arrived at his local library for a reading night, there was no one there to read him a story. The certified therapy dog from Minnesota spends many evenings at the local library having kids read to him to help them develop their reading skills and…
Canadian figure skater Meagan Duhamel has rescued a dog from the South Korea dog meat trade at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, and plans on saving more. The two-time world champion pairs skater and Olympic gold medal winner, adopted one dog when she visited South Korea last February and said she wants to bring another…