Harry was travelling in Albania when a cute little puppy came over to them. Unlike many of the abused or scared strays they ran into, Sandy was friendly and confident. Harry and his partner thought she must belong to someone, but they realized she was alone. But this posed a dilemma for the couple as they weren’t in the best circumstances of rescuing a dog and Harry already had Freddie the spaniel waiting for him at home.
So he and his girlfriend told themselves, if Sandy was waiting for them outside their van, they would take her with them. When they pulled down the window…there was Sandy! “It felt like fate,” said Harry. They also met a fisherman who had been feeding the puppy and he wanted them to take Sandy home as much as Sandy. So that’s what they did! Now Sandy goes everywhere with them and has become a “proper adventure dog.”
Hope For Paws received a call about a dog who had given birth in an industrial area. The mother didn’t respond to food, but instead kept a close eye on her puppies, prompting them to have to try and enclose the large area, filled with many nooks and crannies for puppies and their small mother…
When Valia of The Orphan Pet saw the dog in person he looked so much worse than his photo. Somewhere under the mound of dirt and feces saturated fur was a dog. He used to live with an elderly woman and when she died, someone cleared out her apartment and just left him on the…
When Arnold was first rescued he was in a terrible state of mind. Foxy and the Hounds got the tiny dog into a loving foster home with Terri, an experienced foster mom. Terri knew immediately Arnold would need a lot of patience. “Just my presence was threatening to him,” she says in the video of…
When it comes to comforting a friend, dogs are the best. Take Tali Yard’s dog Roxy, for example. Tali’s son, Sam, was visibly upset when his dad went to work leaving him behind. When Roxy notices Sam crying, the sweet dog cries alongside him. “Sam was crying because his daddy left for work and didn’t…
Meet the world’s first ice-skating dog – a sweet Labrador Retriever named Benny, who was rescued as a puppy from euthanasia. Benny has been learning to skate for a year after his human, former skating coach Cheryl Del Sangro took him along to a practice on a whim. She and a friend suggested they make…
Peanut butter is always in short supply at Detroit Dog Rescue (DDR). That’s because the shelter uses it to help calm dogs that are stressed by bath time. Kristina Millman-Rinaldi recently revealed that peanut butter is their “go to” treat to help bathe the homeless dogs that come into their shelter. The dogs they take…
