Last week, Scarlet de Lemeny went out for a quiet birthday brunch with her fiancé. It should have been a happy morning — but for Scarlet, birthdays always stir up…
It started with a faint, echoing cry coming from deep inside a fuel drum on a scorching August day. Two tiny kittens — hungry, exhausted, and terrified — had somehow…
A few weeks ago, Kim made a startling discovery in her yard: a tiny, hairless, pink wild baby whose eyes hadn’t even opened yet. Alarmed but determined to help, she…
Liz Belanger and her family were enjoying a peaceful day tubing down the Cowichan River in Canada when a tiny, unusual sound caught their attention. “My 16-year-old son, Connor, floated…
At a recent adoption event hosted by NAWS Humane Society of Illinois, cats and kittens happily found new homes one after another. By the end of the day, most cages…
Late one rainy night in Costa Mesa, California, Siena was startled awake by a strange sound outside her apartment — something that sounded almost like screaming. “It was around 1…
Raisin the Jamaican fruit bat has lived an extraordinary life — one that started in a sterile laboratory and now unfolds in comfort, surrounded by love, at Bat World Sanctuary.…
When Angela Adan pulled into a quiet parking lot one afternoon, she expected nothing more than to grab a quick errand. But the moment her headlights swept across the asphalt,…
On a cold winter evening in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Cami Ruocco was enjoying dinner with her boyfriend and cousin at a cozy café when something unexpected caught her eye —…
When Kirsten Duggan, founder of Sweet Acres Pig Sanctuary in Ontario, got a call from animal control about a 13-year-old duck who needed a home, she hesitated. Her sanctuary was…
When Clare Staples walked into a Texas auction house that day, she was searching for horses in need of rescue. She had no idea she’d stumble upon one of the…
When Tiffany Paltauf, founder of Sleepy Pig Farm Animal Sanctuary, got a call about a baby pig found in a dark basement, she didn’t hesitate — she knew he needed…
When scuba diver and ocean content creator Jorinde Maré heard whispers of an extraordinary sighting off the coast of Bonaire, she could hardly believe it. A friend of hers, fellow…
Firefighter Burke Alexander has faced countless emergencies in his career — but the life he saved one quiet morning at the Klein Fire Department in Texas was smaller and more…
Clobaldo Dongo, an avid cyclist from the arid desert coast of Peru, often pedals for dozens of miles along remote stretches of sand and dunes. But on a recent ride,…
When the phone rang at Raven Ridge Wildlife Center (RRWC) one morning last week, staff could immediately hear the panic in the caller’s voice. The woman on the line had…
When Zelda was first discovered in the lobby of Valley Animal Center in Fresno, California, she didn’t understand why she’d been left there. One moment, she had someone. The next,…
At the Animal Defense League of Texas, there’s a dog who greets every day with a smile. His name is Naco, and his favorite things in the world are sunshine,…
Late one night, volunteer rescuer Arturo Flores got a call that made his heart stop. Someone had found a dog tied to a railing in a dark alley — and…
More than four decades ago, a tiny red-eared slider turtle hatched in the wilds of Missouri. Her journey through life should’ve been simple — sunning on logs, gliding through ponds…
 one morning last week, staff could immediately hear the panic in the caller’s voice. The woman on the line had…){kind=link}
