Yuki, One Lucky Kitty
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! It was fall of 2011, when my then fiance (now husband) and I were driving home at one in the morning after seeing a movie. I was tired and laying back in my seat, fighting to stay awake because I knew we would be home soon. Suddenly, my fiance slowed to a stop and put the car in reverse. I didn’t think I felt a thud, but I was convinced we had hit something. I sat up in my seat,...
Our Sweetheart
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 received a call from a friend: “There’s a puppy in the hoarder’s house next door. I think she needs help.” As soon as we pulled up, I knew the situation was bad. There were 3 large untrained German Shepherds fenced into a small area in the backyard. When the woman brought the puppy out, 6 smaller adult dogs came with her. The puppy hid under a chair and refused...
NASCAR Driver Alex Bowman Dedicates Cup Series to Animal Shelter Nonprofit
The ever-expanding traditions around NASCAR racing have shaped the way we watch the races today. From the Budweiser Duel at Daytona to kissing the bricks at Indy, these customs have become just as significant to NASCAR fans as the races themselves. And along with that comes, of course, the moving billboards, with every inch of the exterior of a racer’s car covered in advertisements and sponsors. Photo: Facebook/NASCAR The tradition of sponsored cars started with local businesses when NASCAR was first founded in 1948. However, the...
Baby Kitty Comes to Stay
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! After moving from Houston to Dallas with two cats and a dog, we weren’t in the market for another pet. Starting new jobs, getting accustomed to the new neighborhood and getting our senior dog with congestive heart failure ready for pacemaker surgery is not conducive to introducing a new member of the family. But sometimes they come to us when we least expect it; when that happens,...
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...
Crystal’s 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! Crystal Lynn was born sometime in the early spring of 1999. I adopted her at an event at a local Petco. Animal Control had picked her up a few weeks before running with a pack of large dogs. Crystal had always been a very aloof, taking control, kind of dog. She walked into our house wanting to be the “top dog.” When I brought her home and introduced her to our other three dogs...
New Survey Shows How Covid-19 Strengthened America’s Bond With Its Animals
There’s no question that 2020 was a difficult year. Now a new study shows how our pets helped get us through it. According to a national survey conducted by Morning Consult and Money.com, the pandemic helped strengthen the bond between Americans and their animals. Of the 1,384 pet owners who participated in the study, 58 percent of respondents reported a greater appreciation for their fur family — often resulting in extra displays of affection. Now a year after Covid-19 began, 2/3 of respondents would do anything to save their...
Maddie’s Weekly Roundup: Return to Home success stories, free volunteer program assessment and more!
Below is a brief round-up of new blog posts and resources we’ve added over the past week. Pets across the US are returning home thanks to the No Place Like Home ChallengeThe No Place Like Home Challenge is halfway over and the success stories are already in. Over on Maddie’s® Pet Forum, several Challenge participants have been sharing what’s been working for them. Please, share your successes and ideas, too! While the Challenge is a fun competition, the ultimate goal is to get more pets back...
Black Cat Walks On A Keyboard And Accidentally Plays ‘Horror Movie’ Music
Mitzi is a black cat who has a very unique sense of humor. At least, that is what we are choosing to believe here. Mitzi’s owner caught her standing on the keyboard, but she wasn’t just up there for fun. She was playing music that sounds straight out of a horror film! Photo: YouTube/Loz Lomas Black cats get a bad enough rep without the extra spookiness of the tunes she was playing, but it seems that Mitzi’s owner wasn’t too afraid of the music. In fact, they recorded the tunes so we can all listen in to what a spooky...
Dad Helps English Mastiff That’s Afraid Of The Water Learn To Swim Is Terrified Of The Pool
When we think of big dogs, we often thing of them as being fearless. They’re not supposed to be afraid of anything. In fact, we like to think of them as our protectors, therefore they aren’t supposed to fear anything. However, anyone who has ever owned a big dog knows that they can actually be giant softies at heart. Photo: Wikimedia Commons And some of the things that these large canines fear, are actually quite silly. But it’s so cute to watch them get all flustered over something so minor. One great example is Sampson,...
Sleepy Dog Tries Her Best To Stay Awake
We’ve all been there – so sleepy that we can barely keep our eyes open. I remember when I’d first moved continents I was so jet-lagged I was struggling to stay awake on the bus. I was doing that tired head bob and accidentally smacked my head into the bus’s window. Needless to say, I was wide awake after that. Humans are used to fighting off fatigue. Of course, it’s not just people who have to put up with this – our pets will sometimes find themselves fighting the fatigue as well. Of course, they do it in a...
