rescue

'All I wanted to do was snuggle': Sweet velcro dog gives his owner the cold-shoulder after surgery, then their loving hooman seeks comforting advice online

Jesse Kessenheimer

Woman rescues a large koi fish dumped in the woods and nurses her back to health, now fish demands pets and cuddles: ‘She is the most loving sweet fish!'

Elna McHilderson

‘Is that what I think it is?’: Generous girl finds sweet stray kitten all alone, she spends hours attempting to get him inside her home, until the floofy feline finally opens up

Bar Mor Hazut

Adorable "Ewok" dog ignored after being abandoned in park with only his bed and water bowl, until one kind person gives him a bath and clean, comfy pajamas to cuddle in

Blake Seidel

'I think I got scammed but I’m not even mad': Person buys an expensive black cat from an owner claiming that it is a Maine Coon Norwegian Forest Cat mix, the buyer is convinced they were lied to, but the feline wins over them anyway

Mariel Ruvinsky

Man goes on a surveying job when, out of nowhere, a loud kitten runs up to him, meowing and pawing at him until he picked her up and took her home: 'Someone left her, [so] I guess I have 3 cats now'

Mariel Ruvinsky

Man finds scraggly ginger kitten in a dumpster, it hisses at him, he adopts it with no questions asked: '[He] looked up at me and his eyes said, "I live with you now."'

Mariel Ruvinsky

Kind cat lover rescues abandoned stray only for the vet to refuse him adoption over technical red tape: 'The owners have moved away, but they can’t give her back to me'

Sarah Brown

'They can be mad if they want': Neglectful neighbors let their cat be an indoor-outdoor one after having a baby, leaving him to fend for himself, until a woman rescues him, thinking he is an abandoned stray

Mariel Ruvinsky

'Everyone was just passing him!!' Person finds a ginger kitten lying motionless on the side of the highway after it had "just given up", takes it home and gives it a new chance at life

Mariel Ruvinsky

'He had just given up': Lucky kitten saved by highway driver who pulls over to make last-minute rescue, now he's the smallest addition to their awwdorable family

Blake Seidel

“Total disbelief”: Sacramento cat that went missing for over half its life heartwarmingly returned to owners thanks to one tiny microchip

Blake Seidel

'He was returned for being "too needy"': Sensitive shelter kitten gets adopted and returned for being too affectionate, he finally finds hoomans who are ready to receive all his love

Blake Seidel

Foster Fail ‘Roo’ Shows Fellow Foster Doggos That Even Though Life Is a Little Ruff Right Now, the Good Life Is Right Around the Corner

Lana DeGaetano

'Orange cat ain't mine but I think I am his now': Woman feeds a stray ginger cat, he starts bringing his fluffy girlfriend, then she brings her kittens, and suddenly, this woman has a bunch of new feline friends to feed

Mariel Ruvinsky

Neighbor's grandson finds unique kitten with a strange lump on its head thrown in the trash, fosters her and has "joint custody" of her with the couple down the street, who end up adopting her for good: 'She is super tiny and will probably stay that way'

Mariel Ruvinsky