Animal Companions
Brazil …The dog who was scavenging for food in a garbage dump came across the newborn who still had the umbilical cord attached. The smart dog gently carried the baby in her mouth out of the dump, walked a few hundred feet to the closest house and handed the baby over to helpful humans hands. … Medical representatives said the baby boy is in great condition and was unharmed by the dog.…
…When João Pereira de Souza found an oil-soaked bird on the beach near his southeast Brazilian home in 2011, he cleaned off the penguin, fed him some sardines, and when it was strong enough, took the bird to the beach, expecting it to swim away. But the black and white Magellanic penguin, now known as Jingjing, refused to leave.…
…hit by a school minibus, Audrey Stone… who is legally blind, spent months in a rehabilitation hospital. …guide dog… had jumped in front of a bus to save her. … had surgery himself and went back to his trainers to make sure he would be able to work again. … at last, there was Figo striding up the driveway to greet her… “Oh, my good boy,” she exclaimed as she petted him, his tail wagging full-force. “You’re home — finally!”…
A Florida woman was fatally struck by a big rig truck Friday and for hours afterward her dog remained at the scene, lying down in the road where the accident happened.… The family said the pair were inseparable.…
…Three people were inside – a couple and their 14 year-old daughter. The girl’s cat woke her up, which was a life-saver, officials say, because there are no smoke detectors in the home. The teen woke up her parents and the family was able to get out of the home without any injuries.…
…"The little girl was coming off the curb and the dog stepped out in front of her keeping the car that was coming down through here from hitting her," neighbor Charles Saxton said. … "That truck came speeding down. They always do. He saved her life. Saved her from getting hit. I don’t know if it would have killed the girl or not but it mangled the dog pretty bad." The dog, nicknamed "Angel," is …at the Oklahoma City Animal Welfare Department. …being treated for a fractured leg. …
Rusty didn't seem sweet or playful at all when Jared Piper first met him. He was chained up in a yard in Phoenix, Arizona, barking at passersby all day. But one day Jared decided to stop and say hello.…
Yellowstone National Park… Australian shepherd named Jade was found in the Canyon area Friday, 42 days after she went missing. "She's skin and bones, but otherwise she seems perfectly fine," owner David Sowers of Denver said. …ran off July 23 after an auto wreck…
Dogs are well known for being loyal and devoted companions, while their feline counterparts are typically aloof and detached. Now researchers have discovered that this is because cats don't see their owners as a source of safety and security in the same way dogs do… cats don't suffer from separation anxiety and any noise they make when their owner leaves is more likely to be out of boredom or frustration.…
…The shelter did a microchip scan and found that the owner information actually belonged to someone else in Tennessee. …led to a man named Lloyd Goldston. He said his dog went missing at the age of one when the family moved nine years ago from Tennessee to Alabama.…
…She shouted the word "danger" to her service dog, a golden Labrador named Yolanda, prompting the dog to dial 911 on a specialized phone. …
A 21-year-old mother in Queensland, Australia gave birth to Ella who was born without her left arm from the effects of Amniotic Band Syndrome. Ella is an otherwise healthy, adorable baby.
Ella’s mom saw a posting for a one-year-old abandoned dog named Snowy and emailed The Animal Welfare League asking if they could hold the dog for her at a rehoming center. She knew instantly that Snowy would be the perfect companion for her one-year-old daughter. You see, Snowy has only three legs.…
…That's when Beiswenger brought him a shovel.
"It was quite a shock to pull the dog up and the gator is still attached to the dog," he recalled.
Bloodied, but with all her legs still attached, Hope ran onto the dry land and the gator followed.
Daniels recalled hitting the gator on the top of the head with the shovel and the gator swimming off.
Beiswenger picked up Hope, put her in a golf cart and drove her to the clubhouse. Once there, she grabbed a tablecloth and used it as a tourniquet. She managed to get Hope to an emergency vet nearby.…
A Calgary bird who lost his feet to frostbite is now walking thanks to a pair of artificial talons created on a 3D printer.…
A three-year-old boy and his mother sent a letter to heaven for his beloved dog Moe, who died in April, and in a complete surprise, they actually received a response! -illustr8r, IOTW Report
On April 24th, 2015, my husband was working in an industrial park when he found these two tiny baby kittens just before they would have been crushed by construction equipment…
Firefighters were too big to rescue a kitten from a storm drain in south-central Pennsylvania, but a six-year-old girl proved to be just the right size.…
…She was the only dog to be registered as a prisoner of war during the Second World War.… [Read about her heroic service.]
The Tulsa Fire Department tells FOX23 a house fire Friday, near Highway 169 and East 28th Street, was the largest pet rescue in the department's recent history. … fire crews said they brought out more than twenty pets that were living in the home with two people.
"It was daunting because of the amount of resuscitations that were going on," District Chief Glenn Brigan said. "Because as each animal is coming out, we're trying to work on them. I would say we had one if not two companies working just on that." …
Lt. Dan might have met a different fate in other circumstances.
But his owner, Karen Riddle, knew the white German shepherd puppy born with just one front paw was meant for something special.
And on Monday, the nine-week-old found a new home with Sapphyre Johnson, a toddler who lost both feet.…
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Researchers in Japan said on Thursday oxytocin, a hormone that among other things helps reinforce bonds between parents and their babies, increases in humans and their dogs when they interact, particularly when looking into one another's eyes.…
…The pachyderm is among a group of tame African elephants helping the U.S. military develop an artificial "nose" that could safely and effectively detect bombs and other explosive devices, officials say.
The U.S. Army Research Office experiments, which take place at the Adventures with Elephants ranch here, are part of an effort to better understand—and eventually reproduce—elephants’ stellar sense of smell.
The objective, says Stephen Lee of the U.S. Army Research Office, is not to put elephants in the field of combat or use them for mine detection.…
Louisiana …The vehicle was pulled over on the side of the road. It was tipping over, but a couple of elephants…
"He stood there and barked a little bit, then I rolled down my window and called to him. Then he wagged his tail and got more friendly until I got out of my car. And then he ran a little bit…" John Boy led the officer up the street to a house where his owner, Krystal, was unresponsive… "To be honest with you, I thought she was dead. And when I went up, she was very cold to the touch; her lips were blue. But I was able to determine she was breathing and had a pulse. I called for assistance and my partner was close. So together we got her in the house…."
"What This Police Officer Did For A Marine And His Combat Dog Is The BEST Thing You'll See All Day" [Video from Fox]
A New Jersey family whose terrier-pit bull mix escaped from their backyard during Superstorm Sandy went to an animal shelter this week to adopt a new pet and came home with their old dog....
John Dolan was hospitalized with a skin condition last week. His wife says their dog Zander took it hard. She says the dog sulked and even cried.
Then Zander, seemingly decided he had to be by his owner's bedside. Zander broke out of the Bay Shore home and made his way to the Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center more than 2 miles away.
mayor of a sleepy Alaska town is… [a] part-Manx cat… Talkeetna, Alaska… 900 residents… a write-in campaign shortly after he was born 15 years ago. … The general store where Stubbs hangs out says it gets dozens of tourists a day asking for him.
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