When the emergency response team at Animal Rescue Corps got a call about a desperate case of neglect on Valentine’s Day in 2014, they didn’t hesitate to drop everything and jump into action. Hamblen county officials in northern Tennessee needed help with a home in Morristown, but when the ARC team arrived on-scene, they never […]
googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘VN_PG_DTBT_ATF’); }); In the Sarhento Mariano cemetery in the Philipines, Ashley Fruno found both humans and animals in crisis. Facebook / PasayPupsPhilippines Underprivileged families often move into the mausoleums when they have nowhere else to live, and other residents of the cemetery include over 150 dogs, many with sarcoptic mange. Facebook / PasayPupsPhilippines […]
When Rescue From The Hart got a phone call about a stray dog living under a shopping cart, they set out to save her life. To their surprise, there was much more to her story than immediately met the eye. Los Angeles-based Annie and James Hart founded the non-profit dog rescue in 2014. With the […]
With open wells littering the hillsides of India, it’s common for people and other animals to fall in and become stuck. So when locals near this particular well began to hear yelps, they knew something bad had happened. When they looked inside, they found a scared dog at the bottom. That’s when residents of the […]
There are a few things in life that I’ll just never understand, and animal cruelty is pretty high up there on that list. Rescuers from Hope for Paws were confronted with the same heartbreaking confusion one day when they received a call about a dog that was abandoned in the desert outside of Los Angeles. […]
Since the era of the Three Kingdoms of Korea in 57 A.D., the consumption of dog meat has been a controversial part of South Korean cuisine. Though as much as 30% of the population has tried dog meat at least once in their life, a much smaller percentage actually consumes it regularly. With the tradition […]
SPAZ, a Greek rescue organization, was alerted that a very sick stray dog was near Athens, Greece. The shepherd most likely was a sheep dog at one point, but now he was sick and struggling to survive on his own. It took a while to locate the dog once they arrived. When they saw him, […]
It’s always sad to see homeless animals suffering, but it’s especially heartbreaking when no one will help them. Such was the case for one dog in Mexico City. In 2015, he was living on the streets, starving and covered in open cancerous tumors. The worst part, though, was that passersby didn’t even give him a […]
In 2008, a 52-year-old mother in Seaburn, U.K., began knitting sweaters. However, Jan Brown wasn’t doing it just to keep herself busy. Instead, she was making the adorable pieces of clothing for abandoned greyhounds and whippets. Ms. Brown began hand-knitting dog coats to raise money and awareness for a greyhound rescue…but now, her business has […]
It’s not every day that you come across a story that is this inspiring. A few months ago, we posted an article about a little boy in the Philippines named Ken who began taking walks every day. His father followed him out of curiosity and discovered that his loving son was looking after three very sick puppies that […]