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Project Active Duty Brings Military Family Back Together With Their Beloved Dog
Thanks to a new initiative called Project: Active Duty, military families who get called into active duty, don’t have to worry about who will take care of the dog while they’re gone. Recently, the …
Dog Saves Owner from Fire Burning in the Walls for DAYS!
Drew Smith adopted his dog Carl last year. When he did so, he was under the assumption that he was saving a dog’s life that day. What he didn’t know, was Carl was going to be saving his life from…
Dog Stands Guard Over Fallen Friend While Humans Do Nothing
WARNING! This video is LOADED with feels! This poor dog was hit by a car trying to cross a busy road with his friend. The frantic dog is standing guard, trying to protect his fallen friend, and peo…
Dog Alerts Police to Location of Friend Needing Rescue
In western Massachusetts, police are calling a dog a “real-life Lassie.” Almost out of nowhere, a random dog approached an officer, barking his little head off and making quite a commotion. H…
Anti-Rhino Poaching Dog from South Africa Honored as Hero
K9 Killer as he’s called by his handlers, is a very special service dog. His job is to hunt down rhino poachers in South Africa, which is something plaguing that country and depleting the numbers …
Dog Leads Rescuers to Sister After She Fell Through Ice
Senga and Mishka are sisters, and are very close. When Mishka fell through some ice that had formed on Notched Pond which is in Raymond, Maine, her sister Senga led a neighbor to her sister so…
Dog Credited for Keeping Toddler Safe After They Both Wandered Off
A family is happy to have their two-year-old daughter back home, safely after she decided to wander off from the family’s property. They credit their dog who followed the child as she took off…
Search and Rescue Dog Finds Cancer Hidden in Human’s Lungs
Heidi is a search and rescue dog. For the most part, Heidi finds other lost pets, and is occasionally hired to find drugs, too. One day in February, Heidi seemed to find something rather unex…
Tiny Australian Penguins and the Dogs that Protect Them
Off of the southern coast of Australia lies Middle Island. Middle Island is a beautiful and rugged terrain, and also houses a curiosity unlike any other in the region. It plays host to the wo…
Sheriff’s Dep and Former Soldier Fight Over Custody of Dog
Alex Reimer is an Army veteran, and is in the middle of a fierce custody battle for a dog named Howard that he served with overseas. Howard’s new human, a sheriff’s deputy, does not want to give u…
UPDATE: Dog that Stood Guard Over Friend Given Award by Governor
Back in September, we told you about Tillie and her friend Phoebe. The pair had gone missing one day on Washington’s Vashon Island. When they were found, Tillie was keeping vigil over her fri…
Dog Takes Bullet for Human, Ends up Homeless
Kiko was in the news in 2012, when he saved his human from a home invasion. Someone posing as a UPS delivery person tried to break into the home Kiko was living in on Stanton Island, New York….