It was 4 a.m. when a staff member from Orange County Animal Services arrived at work and spotted a cardboard box sitting near the dumpster. The label read “Coconut Water”…
It was a scorching Labor Day afternoon in Nevada when two small pet carriers sat quietly on the sidewalk outside a strip mall. A torn scrap of notebook paper fluttered…
Chef Franco Blanco was cruising down a busy Florida interstate when something small and dark rolled across his lane. At first, it looked like nothing more than a bit of…
It started with a faint, echoing cry coming from deep inside a fuel drum on a scorching August day. Two tiny kittens — hungry, exhausted, and terrified — had somehow…
At a recent adoption event hosted by NAWS Humane Society of Illinois, cats and kittens happily found new homes one after another. By the end of the day, most cages…
Late one rainy night in Costa Mesa, California, Siena was startled awake by a strange sound outside her apartment — something that sounded almost like screaming. “It was around 1…
Earlier this month, a tiny kitten managed to make a big impression at Ventura County Animal Services (VCAS) in California — long before anyone even knew he was there. Staff…
When Maria Yagoda stepped outside one morning, she was shocked to find her car covered in handwritten notes. Each one carried the same urgent message: There’s a kitten trapped inside…
When firefighters in Boone, Iowa, rushed to the scene of a barn fire last spring, they were told that a litter of kittens might be trapped inside. Amid the smoke…
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