“This girl’s month of homelessness was over, and she knew it” Last month, dog rescuer Suzette Hall — founder of Logan’s Legacy 29 — received a message that instantly sank her heart. She’s heeded thousands of calls for help regarding stray dogs around Los Angeles, California, but this case was different. Instead of wandering the streets for…

Her old family had dropped her off right before the holidays The 14-year-old black Lab mix with a gray face sat in a kennel at Dallas Animal Services with a confused look on her face. Dallas Animal Services Her kennel card revealed some of her sad past. Dallas Animal Services It said her former owner dropped her…

“He greeted us with tail wags and pressed his body against us.” A few weeks ago, when temperatures in St. Louis, Missouri, dropped to the single digits, rescuers with Stray Rescue of St. Louis (SRSL) scoured the city’s streets for dogs in need. As they pulled up to an abandoned house during their search, they quickly realized…

A Good Samaritan was walking near a canal in Arizona when she spotted a shopping cart in the middle of the rushing water — and realized someone was clinging to the cart for dear life. AHS A senior Chihuahua mix, later named Dorthea, had somehow ended up on top of the shopping cart in the…

For seven months, Lancer remained at City of Mobile Animal Services without a single meet-and-greet request. Despite being a sweet dog yearning for love, he went unnoticed, prompting Lancer to take matters into his own paws. Mary Kate Hale, digital media manager for City of Mobile Animal Services, told The Dodo that he would reach out his…

When Goran Marinkovic walks the streets of Kraljevo, Serbia, he always brings food with him. Every day he feeds over 100 stray dogs and cats who have no one to care for them, but in March of last year, he stumbled across a tiny puppy he couldn’t bear to leave behind. Goran Marinkovic “Passing a narrow pathway,…

When Furby first arrived at Austin Pets Alive! (APA!) from a local shelter, he was barely hanging on. The 1-month-old goldendoodle puppy had several different medical battles he was fighting, but his rescuers weren’t even close to ready to give up on him. There were several days where it didn’t seem like the little pup would make…

Alone on a cracked patch of cement, a white dog named Buckley stared up the street from where he was left tied to a pole in Santa Monica, California. For days, the gentle dog waited for someone to notice him, hoping they might take him somewhere safe. Love Leo Rescue One day, a local rescuer…

Imagine running into a  dog lying helplessly in a small  kennel on a freezing day. That’s pretty much what life has been like for Prima, who was abandoned by her owners in the winter. This doggo girl was extremely emaciated and ate anything she could find to survive, which led to almost fatal consequences. When found, Prima was only…

As winter settled into St. Louis, Missouri, last December, residents began spending more time inside, away from the cold. But on one particularly frigid day, a sweet stray pup with nowhere to go didn’t have that option. To escape the freezing pavement, the lonely dog decided a stranger’s doormat would be as good a bed…