A young dog surrendered to a pound in Ireland turned out to be absolutely terrified of people and she was so afraid she wouldn’t leave her kennel. The pound reached out to Dogs Trust Ireland for help because they knew Tasha wouldn’t have a chance of being adopted. So Jason and other Dogs Trust staff…
Sometimes the blunt approach is the best approach. That’s what the Humane Society of Wichita County figured when they came out and declared one of the dogs at their shelter was simply an “a-hole.” “This is Eddie, Eddie is an a–hole,” the Humane Society of Wichita County said on Facebook about the 1-year-old dachshund mix,…
The culprit behind an emerging dog illness that has sickened thousands of dogs across the United States in the past year may have been pinpointed. Researchers now believe the illness causing severe respiratory infections in dogs could be caused by a “funky bacterium.” The mystery illness causes dogs to develop cough, runny eyes, sneezing, lethargy…
A shelter dog who had a heartbreaking response when taken outside has overcome his fears thanks to the dedicated couple who adopted him. Katharin and Florian had just suffered an unimaginable loss when they lost their child so they began to look for a dog to help them through their grief. They noticed Fausto at…
A “Little Brown Dog” who won the hearts of animal control officers after she followed their vehicle in the aftermath of a hurricane has found a home and a new job with her rescuers. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s Animal Care and Control’s Emergency Response team were doing care checks on animals left behind at their homes…
There’s a new warning for dog parents about a mysterious illness that’s spreading across North America that has affected hundreds of dogs and in some cases has been fatal. The illness is highly contagious, affects dogs rapidly, and causes severe upper respiratory infections that has an unprecedented number of dogs being rushed to the emergency…
A trucker travelling along a freeway in Arizona came to the rescue of a puppy “cruelly abandoned with a zip tie secured tightly around her throat.” The trucker was driving on the Interstate 10 freeway in Benson, Arizona just before Halloween when he saw the puppy beside an exit ramp. He immediately stopped and removed…
When MJ saw the video of a bulldog named Molly she immediately said, “The pink one. That’s who I want.” Molly was covered in severe mange so bad that her skin was raw and she could barely walk. She looked in really rough shape and MJ knew the dog needed her. Molly was pulled from…
A tiny Yorkshire Terrier named Smoky may not have looked tough, but the dog was a seasoned war veteran by the end of World War II. Not only that, her owner credited her with saving his life and she became the first ever registered therapy dog after the war. Smoky was first discovered in an…
Nearly 100 years ago there was a stray dog who went on to become the most decorated American War dog of all time. Sergeant Stubby was a short-tailed bull terrier who became a member of the 1917 Yankee forces in Connecticut’s 102 infantry during World War I. He soon became an official soldier who had…
When Pretty Girl’s owners brought home a new baby, they brought the dog they had had for 11 years to the shelter. They told the shelter in Central Washington that Pretty Girl had developed ongoing stress because of the baby, so they surrendered her. With the senior dog’s adoption prospects looking low at the shelter,…
Poor Sparky! The 8-year-old blind Border Collie got stuck in Baisley Pond in Queens, New York and didn’t know how to get out. New York Police Department received a 911 call to alert them that Sparky was drowning so Officers Williams & Esposito from the 113 Precinct responded to the call. One of the officers…