If there’s one thing Dachshunds have an instinct to do it’s dig! Dachshunds were bred to burrow and which is probably why they love to dig in the dirt. This clever dog mom decided to put her Dachshund’s innate skill to work for her and has trained him to help her dig in her garden….
It wasn’t exactly a rescue on the scale of Free Willy, in which an orca was saved, but when officers in Mansfield, UK, saw Little Willy in the back seat of Gordon William’s car on a hot day, they thought the dog needed rescuing. Officers smashed in the window of his Mercedes only to find…
It’s not a scene one usually sees at a dog park. Dogs quietly standing apart from one another, each minding their own business and avoiding eye contact. There wasn’t the normal rambunctious playing or barking or butt sniffing you’d expect with a pack of dogs. But there’s a reason for that. This was a meet…
When Lucy showed up in someone’s yard, the Golden Retriever looked like she had “been bred hard.” She was bedraggled and wouldn’t eat hard kibble. A Good Samaritan contacted Lee Asher with The Asher House and he came out to rescue the dog. Lucy had scars on her head and nose and had just had…
While this dog was visiting a zoo with his humans he became mesmerized by a group of howling wolves. He was so taken in that after a few seconds of listening he decides to join in, which leads to one wolf’s hilarious reaction. The video was filmed at a zoo in Neuruppin, Brandenburg, Germany and…
A stray dog decided to help himself to a little snack while the staff at a veterinary clinic in Brazil were having a break. The dog is seen on surveillance footage walking into the vet clinic’s shop area and snatching a bone from the shelf as staff stand nearby. Staff at the clinic in Formosa…
Elizabeth Potter was getting ready for work when she noticed her Saint Bernard, Everest, scratching and poking his head against the fence. What was he up to? Well, seconds later, it becomes clear when Bear, the neighbor’s 2-year-old English Mastiff sticks his head through a hole in the fence. Did the dogs make their own…
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…
A tiny, traumatized Shih Tzu won the hearts of many rescue volunteers in his short life. The dog named Gremlin, aka Gremmy, survived terrible abuse and neglect for years during his life at a puppy mill. At age four, the Shih Tzu was rescued by National Mill Dog Rescue (NMDR) where he “quickly became a…
Emma the German shepherd-cattle dog mix got treated to a special party to help her find a home. The shelter where she is staying threw Emma a “pitty party” after she became the first dog in seven years to have waited for over a year to find a forever home. The Surrey Animal Resource Centre…
The mother was shaking and her pups riddled with mange when they were brought to a sterilization drive put on by Sidewalk Specials in South Africa. The dogs’ owner had lost his job and couldn’t afford to feed them. “A little box of misery was pulled out of the queue at Steri Drive 8,” Sidewalk…
This sweet dog seems to know that her little human shouldn’t be opening drawers and closes the drawer every time the baby opens it. The dog’s mothering delights the baby, who can’t stop giggling. It looks like the dog knows that her humans need to childproof their home! But mom says that it’s actually a…