On October 13th, our journey with Derik began. A harrowing tale of survival, marred by the brutality of a hit-and-run accident that left him stranded in a ditch, his body battered and broken. Upon his arrival at the veterinary clinic, the extent of Derik’s injuries was painfully clear. His body, once a temple of strength…
On the first hot day of the summer, Lauren Lynde and her husband took their 2-year-old golden retriever, Wally, to cool off. The family rowed their canoe out to one of the islands in Hickory Hills Lake in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, unaware they were about to have an unexpected encounter. Wally loves to swim and once…
Fourth of July fireworks are a dog’s worst enemy, and every year, pets go missing after being startled by the noise. Usually, it takes days to find these wayward pups, but a dog named Rajah figured out how to get back home — and even rang the doorbell to let her mom know she was safe. Ryan…
When Stephanie from Boonie Flight Project, a pet rescue organization in Guam, spotted an emaciated dog with a bucket stuck on her head wandering around the island, she knew she needed to step in. “We didn’t know how long she had left,” Stephanie told The Dodo. “She was rapidly deteriorating. I absolutely could not leave her.”…
When Suzette Hall heard about a tiny dog left tied to a fire hydrant in a Southern California community, she was heartbroken but, unfortunately, not surprised. As the founder of Logan’s Legacy dog rescue, Hall had recently saved a handful of dogs from that very street, and this pup was yet another abandoned by her family. Her previous owners…
It’s impossible to describe the friendship between a man and his dog, but one picture says it all. Twitter/Hrvatska GSS Meet North — a heroic Alaskan malamute who kept his dad safe in the worst conditions. Last Saturday, a young mountaineer was injured and stranded 5,600 feet up Mount Velebit. A rescue team of 27…
Last weekend, a dog named Baby Girl sat stoically on the grass of a residential street in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Tied to a fire hydrant by her leash, she could’ve been just waiting for her owner to return — which is what Kylie Rose Engelhardt thought at first. Luckily, Baby Girl didn’t have to be…
Chloe Adams only had a few minutes to figure out how to save her childhood dog, Sandy, and herself from rising flood waters. To make it to safety, they’d have to swim from their house to a neighbor’s rooftop. But the water was cold with a light current, and her now-senior dog couldn’t swim. Terry Adams…
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…