Time was running out as the storm intensified. As Hurricane Helene made landfall on Florida’s west coast yesterday, residents on land scrambled to protect their homes and personal belongings from the Category 4 storm. Many people raced to high ground to avoid the devastating storm surges and flooding, but one pair of Clearwater locals found…
“She has such a gentle demeanor” ❤️ The staff at Stray Rescue of St. Louis (SRSL) is used to saving neglected animals year-round, but they saw a heartbreaking increase in cases this summer. As always, they treated every case with the utmost care — but one particular pup stood out from the rest. When Skagway, named after…
“[Y]ou could tell how sad he was.” Spinach came to Austin Pets Alive! (APA!) as a puppy with a ruptured eye, and if they hadn’t taken him, he would have been put down. Once his eye was removed, the sweet puppy felt so much better, and his new friends hoped he would be adopted very soon. Unfortunately,…
“She refused to separate from the door” 💔 Carolina wasn’t immediately concerned the first time she encountered a black-and-tan dog sleeping on the sidewalk during her daily commute. The sweet pup, curled up in a ball, was resting beside a typical house in her Cuautitlan, Mexico, neighborhood, so Carolina assumed she was already home. “I thought she lived…
Jail Guards Spend Weeks Trying To Capture Furry Intruder In Parking Lot It was a blazing hot September day in Los Angeles, California, when dog rescuer Suzette Hall received a distressing call from her local jail. One of the guards reported seeing a small, furry intruder running across the property — and she refused to…
“They … make sure he’s never alone.” Nimai, a rescued baby cow, arrived at New York-based animal rescue and vegan farm Happy Compromise Farm + Sanctuary when he was only a day old. The sanctuary saved him from a situation in which he and many other animals were being neglected. Happy Compromise Farm + Sanctuary gave him the…
“The loyalty and heroism of our furry friends never cease to amaze us.” Last week, Stevens County Sheriff’s Deputy Wright was on patrol in a rural area in Washington state when something unusual caught his eye. There, sitting all alone on the side of the forest-lined road, was a dog. In her eyes was a…
I’ll take sexist phrases for $1,000, Ken. During Monday’s episode of Jeopardy!, Ken Jennings was forced to apologize after he read a clue during the category, “Complete the Rhyming Phrase” that many viewers deemed inappropriate. “Men seldom make passes at…” the game show host said to the contestants. Will Wallace, the returning champion, buzzed in with…
A senior dog was struggling stranded in the middle of a canal — but after being rescued and given some much-needed love and care, she now has an amazing new start ❤️ On June 16, a Good Samaritan spotted a heartbreaking sight: a distressed dog was stranded in the middle of a canal, her only…
“I don’t understand how there are heartless people who do things like this.” Two years ago, Evelyn Flores received a text from her boyfriend that broke her heart. Outside his workplace in Mexico, he’d spotted a black and white dog sitting on the side of the road with no owner in sight — but she wasn’t…