Animal Rescue Stories and Pet Photos

Fed her around 6 in the morning. Gf got home from work a few hours later. I was asleep. She was barely there. Rushed her to the vet. She's alive. Vet says she has a respiratory virus. Originally the ...

Caretaker returned to animal sanctuary after several years and Citron the chimpanzee immediately recognized him. Rescued by papaye international.

They started out as a quick sketch to clear my head, but I ended up getting attached to all of them. 🐶 I’d missed posting here, so I decided to finish the illustration. It was inspired by a kid I onc...

Take our guy (Dude) or as my Daughter Affectionately Calls him “Dudiee” Bc that’s her Baby with me everywhere. He gets a lot of attention whenever we go out. Which is always fun, I’ve met alot of new ...

He lays on me so he can sniff the smell we all love.

first dog i’ve ever had. we are going on 6 years together and i am forever grateful she made her way into my life. they really are the best dogs ever. 🥹

Edit: people offering boy names, this is a girl My wife and I adopted this puppy and we really cant figure out a name. Her assigned name is Luna but the foster said its early enough to change. My wif...

Sugar was our 2 year old pitbull. We foster failed her after a month last December. She passed from hemorrhagic gastroenteritis. I’m so angry and sad right now. It’s no one’s fault and the emergency v...

They started out as a quick sketch to clear my head, but I ended up getting attached to all of them. 🐶 I’d missed posting here, so I decided to finish the illustration. It was inspired by a kid I onc...

It’s time to put down my best buddy. 15yo black lab Rudy. I knew it would be tough, but holy shit am I dreading it coming. Choking up as I type this and go thru pictures of him. My wife and I have s...

Nothing but joy. Their personalities developed and we are so happy with them. Never a dull moment! From gotcha day to summertime on the yard ☀️

Yesterday on my way home from the store my wife saw a dog stuck between 2 iron bars about 4 ft above ground. It had tried to jump the a section of its fence but got stuck. I pulled over and went to ...

Two weeks ago, I lost my soul dog, Opie. He was 13 years old. That morning, my wife went downstairs to let the dogs out, and he was gone. It was the worst day of my life—the day I had always feared w...

He's not exactly new, we've had him for a few weeks. He's fitting in well and gets along with his brother Whiskey.

Ive dreaded making this post for awhile now. My dog, Abigail Bear Doglensin, has cancer. Its aggressive, and at almost 14 shes too old for surgery. I have weeks/months left with my baby and I just wan...

I have a 7 month working line German shepherd. Unlike any other animal I’ve known I love him he’s the goodest boy but super demanding which I wasn’t fully ready for but regardless I meet his needs, ma...

This is my boy Max hes 1yr9m and has a severe chronic respiratory disease. Oral medication stopped working after awhile and he eventually started to refuse them regardless of what I mixed it in to! Ve...

From left to right: Bo, Bentley, Bitsy, Baxter

I have four indies. But whenever I say, I have four dogs, people ask me what breed they are? When I reply, they are indies. I have felt a slight disappointment or something. I don't know. Why do pe...

feta lou is celebrating one year of breaking out of the doggy penitentiary 🥳🐾 \#6 to see her family 🐾

I posted my dog Buddy a while ago and now it's time for his sister Fika. She was rescued from Ukraine about a year after the war broke out. Shelters were working so hard to care for all the dogs. Th...

I don’t know where to vent, or how to even begin processing this. Yesterday, I lost my beloved cat, Snowy. How do you get through something like this? Snowy was just a silly little furball who some...

UPDATE!! We split the difference and the universe intervened. The compromise was to attend the adoption event, and if our girl was still there at the end she was our girl… she’s currently conked out o...

Just picked Marceline, Marcy for short up from the shelter 3 days ago. She is a 1ish year old German Shephard mix according to the shelter. She weighs about 31 pounds right now, I think she could ga...

I've been working on Kit Kit Pretty Girl for several months. She abandoned a bad situation and the owner knows and is ok with her finding a new home. She is fixed which is a blessing. I put out fres...

My beautiful dog of 11, almost 12, years has cancer. She is a rescue. She has been with myself and my husband through moves, job loses, depression, anxiety, illnesses, and has been a bright spot in ou...

had some pure pumpkin mixed with antibiotics for one girl but they all love it so put a syringe full on the rim of their cage and uh...bertha had an experience.

I paid MexiVet Express over $500 to take my baby to TJ for a vet appointment and they LOST MY DOG. not only that they waited HOURS to contact me letting me know that she ran away! They supposedly were...

I accepted to stop his suffering today. My baby left us because he was not really better, he was really dependent to drugs, pain killer and everything. I love you my baby, I’m sorry for everything, I ...

Link to the original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/s/lYODLFPEWC Three months ago, my cat was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder, myasthenia gravis of congenital type. Her prognosis looke...

We had to say goodbye to our family pitty Mongo earlier in the year after 13 years. Apparently the house felt way too empty with me gone for 3 days so my wife decided to rescue this guy.

This guy 🖤 I adopt him in January. March: he gets a rectal prolapse, we try a small surgery which goes horribly wrong, then a large surgery (colopexy) which although fixes the prolapse, causes mult...

My sweet soul cat Thunder passed a few hours ago. I have cried a lot this past week and then sobbed when it happened and now I just feel empty. I miss him so much, I know he is no longer in pain but I...

Chestnut decided walking was beneath her for a little while. I have a feeling this isn't even close to the most spoiled corgi in this subreddit.

Please forgive the formatting, I’m an emotional wreck. My peach-faced lovebird escaped late afternoon/evening around 6 or 7 PM. He’s not used to being outside but he’s very friendly with people and m...

Just a quick note: My room spans across almost the entirety of my teenage years! My room was messy and gross I was a teenage boy during Covid. On the beach: I promise he’s not stressed out he LOVES...

Norbert is in active liver failure. his last appointment was last week, they gave him antibiotics and some medicated cat food. since then, just jaundice has gone away, and he’s been eating and drinkin...

My ferret Clyde getting more love than my husband early in the mornings.

I miss him. My wife got him from a home in Iowa. There was evidence he was abused by the man in the home. He was 3 months old when he was picked up. He was so good, always walking by our side and ...

My heart 😭♥️

My mare named Cheyenne left us this morning at an unknown age as her papers were forged. I'm exhausted, sad, because I'm in Greece for a holiday and she was euthanized a few hours after I was called...

Piper the Pug, Buck the Belgian Malinois and Sage the white pup. Piper can’t get enough of Fern’s big head 😆 Her owner adores Fern so much and told Fern he loved her while kissing her on the head. ...

bit of back story: growing up in italy I had free roaming guinea pigs and bunnies. we rescued a dog that would not get along with them so with time we ended up with just the dog. The first thing I ...

He loves to snuggle and purr. And he'll keep my lap nice and warm.

This is Socks. He loves getting on my lap while I am trying to do anything sitting wise. I always bend the knee to him and end up extremely uncomfortable myself just to make him comfortable. Oh well.