In Romania, Sonia Antonela Costas has made it her life’s mission to protect the animals no one else will. Through her small, home-based rescue — Sonia’s Safe Animal Haven —…
A few weeks ago, Marty McAdams was enjoying a quiet Saturday at home when his neighbor called with a puzzling message: “She said, ‘You need to come get your puppy…
In the middle of a torrential downpour in South Texas, a tiny puppy sat motionless on an old onion sack, surrounded by rising water. His fur was soaked, his body…
When two frightened puppies, later named Mimi and Momo, were abandoned in rural Georgia, they didn’t know where to turn. Lost and alone, they crawled into a narrow drainpipe, seeking…
A few months ago, while driving to a doctor’s appointment on a quiet country road in Lajas, Puerto Rico, Dellymar Bernal spotted something that made her heart stop. At an…
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…
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…
When veterinary technician Kel Izumine first held the tiny, 5-ounce pit bull puppy in her hands, she couldn’t believe anyone would want to end her life. The puppy’s front leg…
