Earlier this week, staff at the McKamey Animal Center in Tennessee took a sweet-faced dog named Lilo in to their care. She’d been found, walking around all alone, by a Good Samaritan, who then brought her to the shelter for safekeeping. How Lilo had ended up in that predicament, however, didn’t stay a mystery for long. Lilo,…
While residents in Southern California took shelter during a 5.2-magnitude earthquake last month, one stray pup in Los Angeles found himself abandoned on a quiet street. Lying at the end of a cul-de-sac behind a school, the shaggy stray dog survived the tremor alone — but when someone finally discovered him hours later, he was…
Last year, 17 dogs rescued from a hoarding case arrived at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Utah. The dogs had been severely neglected for years and were all weighed down by heavy, matted fur. “This is definitely the worst case [of matting] I have seen,” Best Friends Animal Sanctuary senior lifesaving care specialist Jenny Dolan told The…
When One of A Kind Pet Rescue heard about Violet’s story, their hearts broke for her. The sweet mama dog had been abandoned after she gave birth to a large litter of puppies — 12, to be exact. That was evidently more than the dog’s former family cared to deal with. So they’d done the unthinkable. “I…
They say that home is where the heart is, and that couldn’t be more true for a man named Rubén and his pack of rescued dogs. Despite not having a home of his own, Rubén, who goes by Noé, is dedicated to sharing his space and resources with every homeless dog in his Colombian city….
When Lucie’s Animal Rescue got a call from someone wanting to surrender their dog, Lucie Holmes, the rescue’s founder, handled it the same way she always does. “His owner asked me to take him [because] ‘he barked at other dogs and people when out’ and he needed to go,” Holmes told The Dodo. “I asked a few…
Hogan knew his days were numbered. Stuck at a California shelter and facing imminent euthanasia, the sweet pup felt helpless. He turned into the corner of his kennel and began to shake and cry. Instagram/_hulkhogan_ When staff at Ozzie and Friends Rescue heard about Hogan’s heartbreaking situation, they knew they had to help. Rescuers raced to grab him before…
The other day, a staff member at Stray Rescue of St. Louis (SRSL) received a call that made her stomach sink. A Good Samaritan saw a woman put a dog in a dumpster — and the poor girl was still alive. The woman closed the dumpster’s lid and drove away, never once looking back to check on…
When a dog was found collapsed on a street in Brooklyn in mid-September, many bystanders thought she was already dead. The poor dog wasn’t moving and was just skin and bones — but, somehow, she was still hanging on. Second Chance Rescue People began posting about the dog, later named Feisty, which got the attention…
When neighbors in Price Hill, Ohio, noticed a pair of dogs hanging out on a porch, they were immediately concerned. One of the dogs was a tripod, and they were both incredibly skinny and sad. They started posting pictures on Facebook, begging someone to come and help. Meanwhile, Sampson and Boss sat and waited. Rescue…