Stories about humans rescuing animals are common. Often, our four-legged companions simply don’t have the physical or mental capacity to get themselves out of precarious situations caused by their owners. Sometimes, though, a…
How could anyone kick this sweet puppy? South Africa currently faces a sad and unfortunate reality – the country houses a large stray dog population who are mostly homeless and…
Source: CBC/Abbey Boyd They say sometimes animals choose the person, rather than the other way around, and this certainly seems to be the case for Abbey and her new dog…
![[Video] Dog Finally Finds a Forever Home, But Knows Something Is Wrong](https://www.waggingtonpost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2017/02/video-dog-finally-finds-a-foreve-250x200.jpg)
This Border Collie mix was finally rescued and found a forever home, but she still wasn’t completely happy. So, for one day, she ran away and found her seven puppies.…
Hope For Paws received a call about a stray mama and her puppies living in a junkyard, so they set out to locate them. Lisa Arturo and JoAnn Wiltz arrived…
In a country overrun with stray dogs, one family decided to dedicate everything to taking care of as many as possible. Mrs. Hsu’s Sanctuary, a family-owned shelter in Taiwan, is home…
![[Video] They see a dog’s head poking out of the ground. When they try to pull her out, they realize](https://www.waggingtonpost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-02-at-1.45.58-PM-250x200.png)
For many stray dogs, finding food is the most difficult part of living on the streets. These homeless pooches need to scavenge for scraps in every nook and cranny, and sometimes that search…
Lya Battle has about 900 dogs that she calls her own, all of which are strays or dogs with special needs. Her dogs live on the sanctuary that she founded…
The thought of traveling cross country sounds very exciting. We picture ourselves tooling along the highway, seeing things we’ve never seen before, each day a new adventure. But for long-distance…
When Wang Yan, a Chinese millionaire, lost his beloved dog, he was devastated. His dog and him had been together for years and to lose a best friend that’s been…
It gets very cold during the winter in Istanbul, Turkey. And all over the city there are cats and dogs without homes trying to find ways to survive the brutal…
Eric Hertlein is used to his grandmother taking in stray cats. During one recent visit, however, he noticed one of the “cats” wasn’t a cat at all. Eric’s grandma is…
Anyone who tries to kick a dog probably deserves whatever comes next, especially if it involves missing the animal and hurting himself. It was a does of instant karma for…
Trevel the dog was abused as a young puppy. He became a farm dog in his later years but soon became partially deaf and blind. He wouldn’t even leave his…
We know animals are resilient, and many times they adapt to their environment and survive as best as they can. After all, there are millions of homeless dogs in the…
Driven from his home in Syria, eight-year-old Hüseyin el-Hasan and his family fled to Turkey where they live as refugees. Hüseyin has seen more than any child ever should, but…
During a trip to the remote area in Cozumel, Mexico the IFAW team came upon a stray dog covered in used motor oil and little more than skin and bones.…
Winter is quickly approaching, and homeless animals everywhere are looking for ways to escape the cold and stay warm. That’s why a bus station in Brazil decided to do something…
As the northern hemisphere gets ready for summer, winter is about to arrive in the southern half of the planet. That makes life extra tough for homeless dogs living in…
As someone dedicated to feeding the stray dogs near her home in Thailand, Orawan Kaewla-iat knows the act of helping needy animals comes as its own reward. But apparently, one…
