A homeless dog who everyone rejected needed extra help finding a family. As a stray, Tuggy rescued himself after jumping into a police cruiser. He ended up at the shelter but getting himself rescued there proved more difficult.
Tuggy had weird cherry eyes and was very smart and hyper. Melissa (an experienced foster) was asked to take him for the weekend and the moment she saw him she thought he was “ridiculous” but in a good way. Three years later and Tuggy still hasn’t left her home.
She says he is joyful all the time and is everybody’s best friend. He loves to go out and experience new things and he loves his furry siblings.
He’s now a therapy dog and spreads joy to kids and makes everyone he meets laugh. Most of all, Melissa is thrilled that Tuggy ended up a foster failure and is part of his family.
This little boy doesn’t let a fence get in the way of a new friendship. When there’s a tennis ball in the yard, he knows he’s being invited to play a game of fetch. So he runs over and picks up the ball and expertly tosses it over, only for the next door neighbor’s dog…
A Great Dane being fostered was so welcoming to the orphaned puppies and kittens with her foster family that they decided to keep her. Shelby was just 8 months old when her family surrendered her to a California shelter. Shirley Zindler, with Dogwood Animal Rescue Project, took Shelby in to foster and soon noticed that…
Archie the boxer decided he wasn’t interested in listening to the lesson his mom was giving but wanted some attention instead. Deanne Bourke is an elementary-school teacher in Australia. During the pandemic she was reading to her class when Archie hilariously interrupted her. In the cute video, he begins to paw her arm to demand…
Winky the Bishon Frise takes things at his own pace. And that was on full display when he competed in the agility contest preliminaries at the Westminster Dog Show 2019. He took to the course with his own unique brand of enthusiasm. He stops several times around the course, pausing at the high perches to…
Miles the Dachshund regularly tried to escape his yard by digging under the fence. So his parents came up with an amazing solution. Now Miles is one happy “security guard” (and spoiled dog!). Said his mom, “he thinks he’s a big dog now!” Dog lovers adored the solution Milo’s parents came up with. “Now that’s…
Potato the kitten was only 3 days old and without a mom when he arrived at Karen’s home to be fostered. She immediately noticed that her 160-pound Great Dane, Corbin, acted like a surrogate “mom”around the orphaned kitten so she decided that Corbin would help her foster. She would feed the kitten and Corbin would…
