We often claim to be animal lovers, but would we step up in a situation where our four-legged friends need us the most? Hopefully the answer is a resounding YES, but you never know… For the 20 cases below, the answer was easy: absolutely. These humans went above and beyond in their efforts to keep […]
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 […]
It’s not uncommon for a police station to have K9 teams where professionally trained pups serve on the force…but what if the ‘K’ stood for kangaroo? Well, that’s exactly the case at the Cue Police Station in Western Australia. When a car struck a mother kangaroo, killing her, she was carrying her baby boy in […]
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 […]
When WWF-Pakistan observer Amir Rahim was out patrolling about 180 nautical miles from Karachi in the Arabian Sea, he and his colleagues saw something in the water that warranted investigation. As they got closer, though, they realized that it was a matter of life and death. Caught in a polypropylene bag was an olive ridley […]
This incredible footage shows the dramatic rescue of a man who was stuck inside his burning Fresno home. Bystanders watched the house burn, and they didn’t know what to do when a woman told them her father was still inside. Suddenly, one hero jumped to action. He miraculously found a way into the house. He […]
googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘VN_PG_DTBT_ATF’); }); When brothers Dan and Bret Friend traveled to Payette National Forest in Idaho for a family reunion, they were excited to visit a secret cave they thought nobody else knew about. But when they arrived, something didn’t feel right. As they approached the entrance of the cave, they heard whimpering sounds […]
Everyone hates a train delay, just ask any New Yorker. When the speakers ding and the driver starts droning about “train traffic ahead,” the eyes start rolling and mumbles of annoyance begin to rise from the packed train cars. But luckily, when this Australian man’s failed attempt to “mind the gap” while embarking on his […]