Forever, No Matter The Cost
This story was originally shared on The Animal Rescue Site. Submit your own rescue story here. Your story just might be the next to be featured on our blog! A few years ago, my cousin’s friend, who worked for a vet, told him about these two puppies found left for dead in a bucket of water. The female was in better shape and had already found a home, but the male wasn’t so lucky — they weren’t sure he’d make it. My cousin said that if he survived, he would take him, but at the time he was renting a home from my...
Register now for Animal Care Expo!
Humane Society of the United State’s Animal Care Expo is virtual once again this year and we hope to see you there! With 40 development sessions, you are bound to walk away with new perspectives, ideas and inspiration. What’s more, all sessions will be available on-demand after the conference. From April 21 through April 23, you can “walk” through the Exhibit Hall, partake in happy hours and participate in a wide-range of roundtables. Register by April 2 to lock-in the $79 rate. Starting April 3, single registrations...
Corona’s Rescue Story
This story was originally shared on The Animal Rescue Site. Submit your own rescue story here. Your story just might be the next to be featured on our blog! I had just turned 19, failed out of college, and was living out of my car in California when I decided to make a change. I threw a dart at a map I had placed on the wall of my friends living room. Boom! It hit Tennessee, and one week later I packed up everything I owned, sold what I could, and drove east. An acquaintance of mine had a cousin who lived in Tennessee and offered me to let me...
Special Agent Saves Pit Bull from Clearlake, California
This story was originally shared on The Animal Rescue Site. Submit your own rescue story here. Your story just might be the next to be featured on our blog! On a Thursday in September 2014, one life would be saved and three lives would be changed forever. Her second time in Clearlake, Special Agent Jill Brenny was assigned to an enforcement sweep of gang offenders and was accompanied by two additional Special Agents in the Gang Unit of Homeland Security Investigations, along with Clearlake Police officers and a Lake County Probation agent....
The Million Dollar Kitty: A Lesson of Faith
This story was originally shared on The Animal Rescue Site. Submit your own rescue story here. Your story just might be the next to be featured on our blog! Let’s set the stage: Sunday, 9pm at night, neighbors young son knocks on our door saying his mom needs help. I hurried across the street to see what was wrong. I notice the boy’s mom outside with a big box. Inside was a tiny 5-week-old kitten with her left front arm muscle hanging off the bone and her tail completely skinned off. We took the kitten home and cleaned her up,...
“Why Bother?” – Hook the Handicat
This story was originally shared on The Animal Rescue Site. Submit your own rescue story here. Your story just might be the next to be featured on our blog! Hook was found in a puddle of blood on the side of the road as a kitten. He was mistaken for a pile of garbage. A kind person scooped him up and brought him into the animal hospital I worked at. His chin was degloved, his back leg was broken, and at the time, it was believed his front leg was also broken. Barely breathing and covered in blood, we were unsure he would make it through the...
My Silly Distemper Survivor Rufus
This story was originally shared on The Animal Rescue Site. Submit your own rescue story here. Your story just might be the next to be featured on our blog! Rufus has changed the way I see the world since before he was even mine. I would watch him next door dodging cars in the driveway and would feel sad every time. One day he came out limping and I finally just asked my neighbors if I could have him, they handed him over to me without hesitation. That was the day my life changed forever! Rufus the rescued dog. Photo: Josie Rice Rufus was a...
Expat Cat
This story was originally shared on The Animal Rescue Site. Submit your own rescue story here. Your story just might be the next to be featured on our blog! My husband and I live on a British compound in Saudi, and there are a few stray cats around. One night, my husband came back from the gym and this young (6-month-old tabby) cat followed him, so we kept it for the night. The next day, I noticed it had blood in its poo and he was going a lot, so I said put him outside as I didn’t really want a pet yet anyway. PHOTO: NIKKI IN SAUDI...
Father Arrested For Entering Elephant Enclosure At San Diego Zoo with Young Daughter For A Selfie
There’s a reason zoos put up multiple barriers around animal enclosures – to keep people out. However, one young father carried his two-year-old daughter over and through the barriers and into the elephant enclosure at San Diego Zoo for a selfie. The African bull elephant promptly charged the intruder and the dangerous and terrifying incident was captured on video by a bystander. Screenshot: Facebook/CBS News “We told him to get out and he turned around and he saw it, thankfully, just in time,” witness Jake Ortale told...
Scarface’s Rescue Story
This story was originally shared on The Animal Rescue Site. Submit your own rescue story here. Your story just might be the next to be featured on our blog! In September 2012, my wife received a phone call from her friend that she had found a kitten. The kitten was badly injured, and was missing its bottom lip. Being the cat lovers that we are, we asked that friend to hold onto the kitten for one more day so that we could go and take a look. When we got there, our hearts broke for the poor little thing, he couldn’t have been older than...
