Back in February 2014, a scruffy white dog with a tire mark on his fur wandered into the Milwaukee Brewers spring training camp at Maryvale Baseball Park in Phoenix. The team fell in love with the stray and named him…
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Besides the tragic loss of human lives, some of the most heartbreaking Hurricane Florence stories were those of pets that had been left behind to fend for themselves in the rising floodwaters. In one video that went viral, volunteers rescued…
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When my boyfriend Fred and I rescued a 6-month-old American Bulldog mix from a Carson, Calif., animal shelter back in October 2007, the staff had named him “Snorty” because he loved to snort like a pig when he was happy…
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A toy Poodle named Pickles may have weighed only 5 pounds, but he wasn’t afraid to stand up to a bear weighing 150 to 200 pounds that entered his home in Black Mountain, N.C., early Friday morning. “I thought I…
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It’s mystifying and also pretty horrifying to consider how in the world a litter of seven puppies ended up on an uninhabited island in Manitoba, Canada. The 4-month-old castaways — or, as I prefer to call them, “castawoofs” — were…
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