A tiny Havanese puppy was shaking from the cold when two students at the University of Missouri spotted her in the snow. With temperatures dipping below 4 degrees, Trevor Koelling and Riley Girardier tried to catch the puppy they spotted on the campus grounds just before midnight. But she escaped under a fence onto the…
Two stray female dogs were doing their best to keep their puppies safe by working together. The unusual pairing came to the attention of Northwest Dog Project (NDP) after a Good Samaritan found the mama dogs and their litters in an alleyway in Los Angeles, California. The woman who found them did not want to…
A dog who was found severely beaten and abused was likely the victim of a gang initiation rescuers say. The young Pit Bull was found tied to a fence with electrical cord in an alley in Los Angeles, suffering horrific injuries. Rescuers at the Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation were called to pick up the…
Rescuers on the East Coast of the United States are working hard to save stray and abandoned dogs at risk of succumbing to the harsh winter cold that has hit the region with full force. Among them is Detroit Pit Crew Dog Rescue. Within just the past week they’ve taken in a handful of stray…
A tiny dog, smaller than a cat, was found living among the chickens in a chicken coop. He was not faring well. Underweight, riddled with mange and suffering from leishmaniasis – which is common in Greece – Feathers was almost blind from his neglect. Thankfully Save a Greek Stray was notified and they came to…
Stuck in the basement of a condemned home for over a month, Mia’s barking was heard by a stranger passing by. The rescue that followed was both uplifting and heart-wrenching at the same time. Nick Scydick happened to be in the neighborhood when he heard a dog barking from an abandoned home. He called Stray…
A puppy’s mournful, frightened howls broke his rescuer’s heart when she came to save him from an icy cold lane. The puppy was huddled against a pole, shivering from the icy snow and was in pain from injuries. When Donna from Stray Rescue of St. Louis approached him he began to howl. “This poor soul…
John Roussety wasn’t expecting to rescue a dog when he and his friends were caught in a summer rain storm. But that’s exactly what happened when he spotted a small dog huddled in a doorstep. He shared his rescue story with DogHeirs.com and it’s as heartwarming a story as can be. From our “Rescue Dogs…
Hope For Paws got a call from Good Samaritans who were running a garage sale when they say they saw a dog be hit by a car and the dog walked to their table. The moment they arrived he fainted right in front of them. Eldad Hagar knew Tux was in very bad shape and…
Mimi the Maltese was left at the shelter when she was pregnant, unwanted and alone. Given her situation, if Mimi had given birth in the shelter it was most likely many of her puppies would not have survived. Fortunately, Mimi had a guardian angel looking out for her and she was saved by Brandie with…
A group of bicyclists in Portugal came across an abandoned dog tied to a tree and saved her life. The video, shared on Facebook by the Spanish animal welfare group, Asociación Animalista Libera (Free Animal Association), went viral after they posted it. They wrote [translated]: “It takes a very bad person to leave a defenseless…
When Pia first saw Hercules lying in the street his eyes weren’t shining – he had given up on living. He was so skinny and frail that she cried, she couldn’t believe no one had stopped to help him. She didn’t think he would make it through the night, but she brought him to a…
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