Pup Rescued From Meat Festival Now Frolicks on a Beautiful Vineyard in California
Lady the greyhound has become the resident puppy mamma of hundreds of dogs rescued from Chinese dog meat festivals.
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Video of Shelter Dogs Paddle-Boarding Helps Find Them Forever Homes
These shelter pups may have seen some tough times in their lives, but rescue volunteers ensured that they were repaid with the best day ever and a proper shot at a forever home. Four-year-old Captain is a boxer mix being treated for heartworm. He was found roaming a construction site in the desert and had […]
They Found A Baby on the Subway-Now He's Their Adopted Son
They found a baby on an NYC subway platform. Now he's Danny Stewart and Peter Mercurio's son.
Dog Saved From Icy River After 4 Days Gets Adopted by Rescuer - And a New Name 'Miracle'
Miracle the dog was stuck on the Detroit River for 4 days, but now he's been adopted by his rescuer.
Istanbul Improves the Lives of Thousands of Stray Cats with Elaborate Outdoor Cat Houses
Famed for their welcoming attitude towards stray cats, Istanbul residents are building elaborate cat houses for their feline neighbors.
Doberman Dog Nurses Tiny Abandoned Kitten Alongside Her Pups - the Adorable Photos Will Melt Your Heart
A sweet doberman dog has been nursing a tiny abandoned kitten alongside her pups in Geneseo, New York state.
Chinese Monk Dedicates Life to Rescuing 8,000 Dogs - He Finds Them New Homes Around the World
Zhi Xiang's love of animals and Buddhist beliefs have led him to adopt 8,000 stray dogs and cats, while finding them new homes.
Dog is Given Her Own Billboard So She Might Finally Get Adopted and Leave the Shelter After 2 Years
Sally Sue the pit bull mix has been stuck in a shelter in Kansas for 2 years, now she has a billboard to help her find a home.
German Animal Shelter Posts Tinder Profiles for Lonely Animals, Hoping for a 'Purrfect Match'
The Munich Animal Welfare Association is now using Tinder to post profiles of adoptable pets, and lonely humans are swiping right.
Students Write Adorable Letters on Behalf of Shelter Animals to Boost Adoptions - And it Worked
Hand-written letters by children were attached to the crates of hard-to-adopt Richmond, VA dogs, and it totally changed their fortunes.
This is the World's First Beer Taproom That Also Houses Foster Dogs Rescued From Kill Shelters
Since the bar opened back in 2018, they have helped to find forever homes for more than 70 pups rescued from California kill shelters.
65 Cats Are Treated Like Favored Guests at the World Renown Hermitage Museum in Russia
Under Russia's Hermitage museum 65 cats live as full-time guards against invasive rodents, but they're also part of the buildings rich story.
Teacher Adopts 'Holy Terror' Student No One Else Wanted
Cruz Riojas came from a troubled home and was reportedly beaten by his stepfather. His anger flared often in the classroom where he was known as a "holy terror." Teachers loathed him. But Linda Hooper eventually came to love him.
Foster Child Surprises TV Anchor Who Helped in Adoption
Fourteen-year-old Ke'onte is full of life and laughter — largely because of his new parents. But his happiness is also thanks to a television news anchor who featured the boy's story in Dallas, Texas, not just once, but twice, after a failed adoption brought disappointment.
Never Adopted, 19 Year-old Gets First 'Real' Thanksgiving With New Family
A young man of 19 will sit down to his first 'real' Thanksgiving after a Texas TV station aired a story in September about how he had aged out of the foster care system, without ever finding a family. After the broadcast, which showed him living in his car, emails came pouring in with offers of money for food and rent, and new tires. But an even better offer came in from the Hunt family.
Boy, 15, Goes to Church to Plead for Adoption, Please Love Me - Thousands Respond
A heartbreaking story ran in the Tampa Bay Times on October 8 about a brave boy, 15, who stood up in front of a church during Sunday services to ask someone to love him. The orphan had been raised in foster care and lived in a group home for boys. He made the drastic and courageous step because he wanted a loving family so bad. After the story ran, thousands filed requests to ask him to join theirs.
Soldier's Rescue of Orphan Leads to Reunion 40 years in the Making
Kimberly Mitchell's life story has always been missing a few important pages -- like how she ended up in an orphanage in 1970's Vietnam with war raging. She finally knows the story and got to thank the soldier who rescued and named her in 1972.
We Found Our Son in the Subway (An Abandoned Newborn Baby)
The story of how Danny and I were married last July in a Manhattan courtroom, with our son, Kevin, beside us, began 12 years earlier, in a dark, damp subway station. What neither of us knew, or could have predicted, was that Danny had not just saved an abandoned infant; he had found our son.
Medical Miracle as Adopted Son Gets to Repay Mom With a Kidney
Facing 7 or 8 years on the organ donor waiting list, an ailing Massachusetts mom, having exhausted all possibilities for kidney matches with blood relatives, found her miracle organ match in her grown adopted son from El Salvador.
Bachelor Party Adopts 7 Puppies After Stray Dog Wanders in
These groomsmen weren't planning on taking home anything but fond memories following their bachelor party getaway – until they found Annie and her pups.
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