Month: August 2016

If you’ve ever spent any amount of time at an animal shelter, you know that they lead lonely, monotonous lives while they’re there; waiting patiently, hoping to impress the next person who walks by, so they hopefully take you home to live a “real” life. While the shelter employees can’t exactly make the situation go away, they can at least make their lives while at the shelter, a little bit more bearable. In April, at the Kitsap Humane Society, in Kitsap County, Washington, The Puppuccino Pals program began. Every Tuesday, volunteer, Molly Clark, takes one of the shelter’s dogs on an adventure to the local Starbucks, for a yummy Puppuccino. You may be wondering what exactly, a “puppuccino” is! Continue reading on the Next Page!

In the town of Iquitos, Peru, seeing a starving dog on the streets is somewhat normal. Every day, a particular one of these emaciated dogs would stand in the streets in front of busy restaurants and shops, but no one paid him any attention and turned away. Like he wasn’t even there. One day, two kindhearted women named Joyci and Bianca, rescued him and began nursing him back to health. They named him “Ojitos”, which means “little eyes” in Spanish. At first, Ojitos was hesitant to the love and affection he was receiving. What happened next is just a miracle!

It was an incredibly hot and humid day in Perryman, Maryland, with temperatures lingering around a scorching 100 degrees. A team of firefighters were fighting to save the life of Mabel: a St. Bernard, who had fallen into a dry well. The rescue may not have been routine, but was far from simple. The rescue was incredibly detailed, and required the effort of the entire firefighting team. You may be wondering how exactly you rescue a dog from a well! The team utilized a pulley system, and placing a harness on her. The firefighters weren’t the only team that day, on call to rescue poor Mabel. Continue reading this story on the Next Page