A very sick Rottweiler was rescued off the streets in Taiwan and nursed back to health. His transformation was so remarkable that he not only won over his rescuers, he won the hearts of dog lovers overseas and earned recognition for his amazing recovery. Poor Tiny was first saved by a local rescue group in…
Janet first laid eyes on Tim when she went to make a donation at her local animal shelter and what she saw made her heart break. Janet shared Tim’s sad beginning and happy ending with DogHeirs.com as part of our Rescue Dogs are Family series and it goes as follows: “Three years ago, I went…
A former street dog came to the rescue of a litter of kittens abandoned in a trash heap. Banzé (or “Scamp”) found the kittens when he was out in a neighborhood near São Paulo’s Jardim Aeroporto (Garden Airport) in Brazil. Banzé sniffed out the kittens in a cardboard box. As soon as he found them,…
A piglet fell out of a livestock truck in Kansas and was found on the road by a family who fortunately happens to run a veterinarian hospital. They decided to take the pig in and take care of the baby animal, naming her Mu Shu. That’s where the family dog, Hunter, met the piglet. From…
Dogs Milk (aka Wooyoo) and Mocha got a wonderful surprise from their humans recently – they got to meet their baby sister. The pair helped their mom through a difficult time. Their dad explains that back in January they learned that they were expecting a baby and that his wife had really bad nausea. But…
With a bucket, some tennis balls, and a simple note, the pet parents of a dog named Phoebe gave her a loving and memorable tribute. They left the bucket out at what was probably one of her favorite spots – a beach in Western Australia. Phil Scanlan visited the beach and took a photo and…
Katelyn Harding wasn’t expecting to welcome a new dog into her family when she went to visit a friend, especially a rescued Pit Bull who was “scared to death of everything and everyone.” But that’s exactly what happened when she met Sage for the first time. Here’s the rescue story she shared with DogHeirs.com: “This…
When Meredith and her friend adopted dogs from a Korean shelter they ended up getting an unexpected surprise. A few weeks after they brought their dogs home, Meredith’s friend’s dog gave birth to four puppies! Instead of having rescued two dogs, they ended up rescuing six. Each of the puppies look totally different from one…
Welcoming a newborn baby into the home is always a joyous occasion. And for many couples, because their dog is their first baby, they make sure to provide extra love and reassurance to their pet so that they will bond with their new little brothers or sisters! For John and Morgan Powell they knew their…
A young fox’s private life was revealed to a woman when she kept tabs on what he got up to in her garden. The fox took up residence in Jen’s backyard last March, much to her delight. And this week, he appeared to have a new friend…a girlfriend. Jen lives in England and said the…
A stray dog helped firefighters in Turkey save her puppies after they became stuck in a drainage canal in the town of Bodrum in the Turkish province of Muğla. A local named Erhan Erol called the firefighters after he noticed the puppies stuck in the hole, which was slowly filling with sea water. The firefighters…
Galgos del Sol Animal Rescue comes to the rescue of galagos – Spanish hunting greyhounds – dogs who are abandoned or killed by the thousands each year at the end of hunting season in Spain. The dogs are not seen as potential pets so they end up either in kill shelters or more often dumped…