When Angela Adan pulled into a quiet parking lot one afternoon, she expected nothing more than to grab a quick errand. But the moment her headlights swept across the asphalt,…
On a cold winter evening in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Cami Ruocco was enjoying dinner with her boyfriend and cousin at a cozy café when something unexpected caught her eye —…
Clobaldo Dongo, an avid cyclist from the arid desert coast of Peru, often pedals for dozens of miles along remote stretches of sand and dunes. But on a recent ride,…
When Zelda was first discovered in the lobby of Valley Animal Center in Fresno, California, she didn’t understand why she’d been left there. One moment, she had someone. The next,…
At the Animal Defense League of Texas, there’s a dog who greets every day with a smile. His name is Naco, and his favorite things in the world are sunshine,…
Late one night, volunteer rescuer Arturo Flores got a call that made his heart stop. Someone had found a dog tied to a railing in a dark alley — and…
When a 5-month-old puppy named Lucky Charm arrived at the Benton-Franklin Humane Society in early July, it didn’t take long for everyone there to fall for her. “She is super…
Late one quiet night eight years ago, staff at a Michigan nursing home found an unexpected visitor snoozing on the lobby couch. It wasn’t a resident. It wasn’t a visitor.It…
When Jessie Shaw, cofounder of Fetch Dog Rescue in Westport, Connecticut, opened a message from her partners at Roadside Rescue Network in Mississippi, she wasn’t expecting to have her heart…
