One day, Audra Petraškienė from Lithuania saw a sight that she wishes no one ever has to see. What she saw shook her to her core, but she’s glad she…
Lisa Wallace is president of the Animal Placement Bureau, a non-profit dog rescue in Lansing, Michigan, that has been around for 40 years. For half of those years, Wallace has…
Dispatchers at a 911 call center in Texas have a new member on their team: he’s tiny, furry, super adorable, and he goes by the name ‘Sergeant Squelch.’ Proudly wearing…
Did you ever get so excited that you just can’t hide it? Despite her rough start in life and landing in an animal shelter, Matilda the Pit Bull puppy constantly…
West Palm Beach Fire Rescue responded to a brush fire, and they didn’t expect to see a dog in the middle of it. Someone said they noticed a dog stuck…
When you talk about rescuing a dog, then to most people that means actually rescuing a dog from the rescue centre, not just only looking for a cute puppy. A…
Animal Aid Unlimited received a call about a street dog who’d been hit by a car and was unable to stand, so they set out right away to help. Little…
The story of Noodles the shelter dog started off as a sad one. The abused Beagle was scared of everyone and was constantly ignored by all. She’d just sit in…
Pedro Dinis was walking his dog near Paris, France, when he came across an awful sight: A French Mastiff who was halfway buried alive in the dirt. The poor dog…
Solo has lived a life that no dog deserves to live. He spent nearly a decade alone on the streets of Los Angeles, fending for himself. As the years went on,…
Someone abandoned three puppies and left them to fend for themselves in the brush at a dumping ground in Georgia. But thankfully, Trooper Jordan Ennis and his K-9 partner, Tek,…
Jeff Nawfel, Captain at Wells Fire Department in Maine, had a unique rescue when a Husky was spotted on top of a roof. The playful Husky, named Jasper, managed to…
Regan found herself at the shelter after her owner passed away, and suddenly she was all alone in the world. Everything was new and scary to the poor dog, but…
A horrific tragedy was averted in the city of Ribeirao Preto, Brazil, when a falling dog escaped death by a hair’s breadth, thanks to a passerby with lightening presence of…
The following is a story that teaches us about the effects slaughterhouses and some shelters leave on the animals rescued from these places. Although the shelters should serve the purpose…
When animals give birth to a large litter, there’s often one infant that is much smaller and weaker than the others. It happens with dogs, cats, birds and many other…
Millions of dogs land in animal shelters and rescues every year. Due to a history of being abused, many of them are petrified of human contact. This was the case…
A woman had been evicted from her Barstow, California home, and had left garbage bags filled with trash and unwanted clothes on the curb for the morning garbage pickup. Alongside…
Abandoned in a forest in South Carolina, Hermione was in need of immediate rescue when she was found with a coyote trap on her paw. Thankfully, the animal rescue team…
Every dog deserves a home, and if it were up to one 11-year-old California resident, all dogs would get their forever homes. Though Emmy seems very typical, she is actually…
