When Honey the beagle was surrendered to the Niagara SPCA last June, she couldn’t even walk from all the extra weight. The person who dropped Honey off wanted her to be put down — but shelter workers refused. Honey when she was first brought to the shelter | Niagara SPCA “She was so young, and we knew we could…
At age 13, this sweet-natured senior dog named Bruiser has just about seen it all. He’s pretty well set on what he likes — and one of those is having a predictable routine. “Bruiser is stubborn and doesn’t like change,” Nicole Michell, the dog’s loving owner, told The Dodo. But the other day, Bruiser’s stubbornness…
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“He’ll side-eye me and give me the meanest look, like, ‘Are we done yet?’” There are plenty of ways to get out of taking a photo — you can make a face, cover the lens or, if you’re a dog named Sparky, you can just melt. The rescue dog goes boneless when he’s sick of posing…
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On a quiet stretch of wooded road near Elin Pelin, Bulgaria, Stilyana Gerova’s car broke down. Gerova pulled over to change her tire, not knowing her vehicle trouble would soon save a little life. On the side of the road, Gerova spotted a frail puppy running around with something brown looped around his neck. Facebook/Breed…
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Maggie was born to be in the snow. Ever since the Saint Bernard/Newfoundland mix was a little puppy, she’d always seek out the coldest place in the house. “When she was a puppy, she preferred to either lay in the bathtub or on the concrete down in the basement,” Elijah Saltzgaber, Maggie’s dad, told The…
Last month, a group of neighbors in Los Angeles, California, were stunned when they woke up one morning to find a pair of fluffy strangers on their street. They’d typically welcome newly moved-in pups with open arms, but this duo was different: The two dogs were alone, and they were in shockingly poor condition. “[T]hese…
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Earlier this year, an abandoned puppy was discovered tied to a tree on a farm in central Georgia. Helpless and exposed to the elements, the dog had spent four long years enduring the scorching sun, heavy rains, and relentless hunger.When rescuers found him, his condition was heart-wrenching. Weighing only 11 kg (24 lbs), far below…
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Annie’s awareness will steal your heart. Aura was driving to meet her grandma one day when she came upon this small soul by the side of the road and decided to stop and question the proprietor. Annie was tossed away like garbage since the proprietor no longer wanted her. In reality, her proprietor and son…
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Since irresponsible owners abandon their dogs with little guilt, there is no end to the number of canines roaming the streets. Each rescue facility has a finite amount of capacity and resources for holding animals in their temporary home, so they can only do so much to clean up this shambles. Some pet owners will…
A 2-year-old boxer mix named Freon wasn’t sure what to do when he saw Donna Lochmann waiting at the top of the stairs. This was his first encounter with someone in about two weeks. The first time Lochmann heard of Freon was when he got a call from a neighboring landlord reporting an abandoned dog…