Residents of South Bend, Indiana, noticed a peculiar sound coming from their storm drain early one morning. The cries of two small kittens were enough to wake the suburbanites at 3:00 am. Concerned citizens in the area made several calls to the South Bend Animal Care and Control, Code Enforcement, as well as the Bureau […]
While sailing on Somerset Reservoir in Vermont with his son, a man spotted a young squirrel trying to swim across the lake. The distance from one side to the other was about 3/4 of a mile and the squirrel was right in the middle of the lake. After trying to get him to climb aboard […]
Heading out for a day of whale watching, Cesar Espino and a friend were off the coast of the Canary Island of Fuerteventura, Spain, when they came across a 50-foot-long whale. While she should have been swimming free in the ocean, though, they could immediately sense that something else was going on with her. In […]
In the middle of Detroit, a person walking down the sidewalk heard something strange… something was in trouble. The man walked over to the garbage bin, not knowing what to expect. What he saw was absolutely heartbreaking. Underneath rubbish, an animal was whimpering. It was a dying dog, cruelly thrown away like trash. The Maltese […]
Carver Police Officer David Harriman is being hailed a hero after this photo of him went viral this week. The photo shows him moments after diving under eight feet of murky water to save a dog trapped in a submerged pickup truck, emerging from the water carrying the dog he just saved from drowning. The rescue […]
Usually when you see a smartphone involved in a life or death situation, it’s the cause of the problem — but this time it was the solution. At a dance shop in Spokane, WA, clerk Leslie Reckord was told an infant was unable to breath and had started turning blue. A former lifeguard, she immediately called 911 […]
Professional skier Peter Oswald expected to have a normal day when he travelled to New Zealand’s Hector Mountains for a photo shoot. Or at least as normal of a day one can have where someone takes pictures of you flying down a mountain on two thin planks. He would not, in fact, have a normal […]