rescue

'We took in the "worst" dog the shelter had': Foster furmily adopts fearful pittie and helps him thrive with patience, love, and second chances

Sarah Brown

'Nobody else wanted her': Born in the shelter, 'Luna' the beautiful black cat waited 7 years to find her furrever purrson, and now they spend every minute together

Blake Seidel

'I wasn't even a cat person': 7 years ago a woman's life changed furrever when a fluffy gray feline hugged her and refused to let go

Blake Seidel

Newly-adopted cat escapes his owners and adopts a different human, he fairly offers to buy the cat from the original owners, but they abandon him instead, letting the man keep him for free: 'He's such a sweetie'

Mariel Ruvinsky

Street doggo with mysteriously large belly found not to be pregnant, she gets saved by kind woman who takes her for treatment and then adopts her

Blake Seidel

'He's like having a big goofy dog in the house': 3-month-old Lion cub with rare disorder that cannot be released into the wild gets adopted by kind caretaker who brings him into her home and becomes his mom

Mariel Ruvinsky

'There is no realistic way I can continue to socialize a 100% outdoor semi-feral cat and take care of a newborn at the same time': Pregnant cat lover torn as affectionate stray wants in, but struggles to add pawrent to new parent responsibilities

Sarah Brown

“He carried him five miles home in his arms”: A dump-side rescue turns into a gentle love story between a lucky kitten and the family who was meant to find him

Laurent Shinar

‘Welcome to the freeway feline rescue club’: Dear driver stops to save a cat from a raging road side and gives her a furever home

Ayala Sorotsky

'Stephen sent you a friend': Devastated after her feline, 'Stephen', crossed the rainbow bridge, cat mom finds a tiny kitten in a stroke of feline fate with the same spirit as her soul cat

Blake Seidel

Woman spends 3.5 hours every day after work to feed over 80 stray dogs, she gains their trust to help TNR and save their lives: "If I don't do it, who else will"

Blake Seidel

Kitten rescued from a devastated place to a warm home by heroic human who never thought he'd become a cat person: 'He had to walk up to us and collapse at our feet'

Ayala Sorotsky

'I didn’t want a cat but now I can’t let her go': Man finds a tiny black kitten so heavily covered in mud she couldn't even see, takes her to the vet, and immediately knows that he has to adopt her

Mariel Ruvinsky

'He pretty much would not let my husband ignore him': After "temporarily" fostering cat that was too stressed to be in the shelter, this dog-person guy begs his wife to adopt the affectionate kitty who won his heart

Mariel Ruvinsky

Young boy falls in love with "stray" cat who visits him daily; vet finds his microchip and reveals he's been abandoned for almost a year, so his new family fights landlord to keep him: 'He is the greatest cat I've ever had'

Blake Seidel

Nanny finds a baby possum on her morning walk, wraps it in a diaper, and becomes its mom for the day; possum ends up growing up in a wildlife preserve: 'I swaddled him and put him in the cupholder'

Jesse Kessenheimer