Heartwarming Pet Rescue and Animal Adoption Stories

Zeus was a severely injured stray I picked up. After a few days of medications, he was finally stable enough to undergo surgery to amputate his back leg (which was severely broken. I won't go into det...

Edit: Wow this blew up! Sorry if I can’t answer everyone, and thanks for all the love for these two! I have given them lots of love and cuddles on behalf of this Reddit sub❤️ — It took him a few wee...

Never been a cat person myself, but I heard about this distribution system? My wife and kids have really taken to it so looks like we may be adopting a cat lol. Only issue is that we are leaving Satu...

Seven miles into a marathon in Thailand, Khemjira Klongsanun noticed something that everyone else was running past: a tiny puppy, scared and alone on the roadside. While other runners avoided the lit...

We had to put our beautiful boy, Duncan today. He survived parvo as a pup, loved to fetch, and had the cutest underbite. You will be miss, my friend. Fuck cancer.

Been lurking and this is my first time posting. It has been over a year since I lost my lovely Samhain, he was such a good boy, I've found it impossible to think about adopting again even though I kno...

Just rescued a 1 yr old pit from the shelter. Any foods or shampoos that’s recommended? I lost my son , a Carolina Dog two months ago and couldn’t be an empty nester.

Today, our favorite little boy will be crossing the rainbow bridge. My dad is heartbroken. Dennis found him, literally. Dennis was a street cat who frequently visited my dads work in San Francisco. M...

He was five years old and has been doing fine until two days ago, he had issues with his liver and when I visited him at the vet (he got confined) I thought he was gonna do better since he seemed res...

I am so happy to share that yesterday Bella went to her forever home. ❤️ We even got to celebrate her 15th birthday! In this picture, she is with the foster mom(her rescue )who bottle-fed her as a ba...

I found this little guy in my backyard earlier this week. He was covered in fleas and ticks so I got him all cleaned up. I asked all my closest neighbors and nobody recognized him (and he has no chip)...

This is my bff Walter. I wasn’t looking for a cat. I was at the shelter to do some volunteer work. This big boy was a very tiny sick boy at the time. He would let me touch him with one finger through ...

I was reading at the park and noticed this stray pacing back & forth the street out of my peripheral, right? No sense of cars passing by and eventually crossed the street. I look up from my book and s...

Please give your GSD an extra pat for Max today. I’ll always love you. Thank you for blessing my life for 12 years. See you over the bridge. 🌈

Please forgive me if I sound too all over the place. I am very heartbroken and English isn't my first language. I am losing the love of my life and I feel so guilty for failing him. The lovely polite...

We've recently ended up with only one potato left, and she's only two, and I've been wanting to try to find new ways to entertain her. Anyway, I was wondering if it would be good stimulation for her t...

I loved you all my life, and now I will miss you for the rest of mine. Rest in peace, my sweet little one, my gentle giant, my lovely boy. I will love you forever! 💕❤️ You were a blessing in my lif...

He’s driving me crazy at this point. I tried the clicker but it’s not doing much.

14 years his name was Ike. He was pure love and cuddles! it was honestly the hardest decision of my life but he couldn’t get up anymore his back legs just gave out yesterday. We just couldn’t see him...

Today, we lost **Langdu**. 💔 This morning, his little heart gave up after battling kidney failure. When I first found him, he was just another injured stray that most people walked past. But behi...

Hi everyone! If you could take a moment to read this and offer any advice, I'd really really appreciate it. About a week and a half ago, I discovered that my ball python had snake mites. This is my ...

Eu amo ver a evolução da minha pequena maluca.💗 Eu e meu namorado achamos e resgatamos, o plano era ser lar temporário, mas estamos até hoje com ela kkkkkkkk. As últimas são as fotos mais recentes ...

Got these two 9 week old cuties because they were very fearful in the shelter. Needless to say, they’ve settled in great 😊

thought this was interesting and wanted to share. obviously i’m not done cleaning this but i noticed that the possum i found last year had a tooth that grew into its eye socket. someone said she most ...

**The bird is TAXIDERMY** Update on my previous post: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Rabbits/comments/1v0ygmz/can\_my\_rabbit\_and\_eagle\_live\_in\_harmony/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Rabbits/comments/1v0...

Picked this little dude up today, he’s my first sausage dog, he’s so tiny and handsome, so naturally he needs a handsome name The contenders are as follows Heathcliff Mr. Darcy Rhett Butler ...

You may have seen previous posts about our little feral guy, Tonka Bean. He is a former feral I was feeding, along with his siblings, at my office for months. I had really bonded with his sister but h...

Ive never met such an empathetic nurturing dog, Meatball just wants to be everyone's mommy and take care of them lol. Here's her with her favorite brother, Batman. Just have to rant about how much ha...

Good day, everyone! I am a solo animal rescuer based in Manila, Philippines. Rambo is an abandoned cat. I suspect he once had an owner, and when he became sick, he was dumped in one of the areas whe...

I found this sweet sweet boy right outside of my work all curled up next to his brother who unfortunately didn’t make it :( it was so heartbreaking to witness. I took him in and he went to the vet. Sh...

I'm devastated, my sweet Baby is now gone He was euthanazied today, the vet was so kind and said that we did everything we could and beyond. I'm at lost of words, he was such a good boy from the sta...

My bunnies generally don’t free roam because of my stairs (and because my girl chews EVERYthing). They live in an enormous xpen (40sq ft) and have supervised free roam time. When they are out, I g...

Ok so we just got this sweet boy, he was surrendered by an older couple who was not prepared to deal with a puppy, lol. He’s the sweetest boy but we do not know how old he truly is. We are thinking ab...

Pretzel is officially my service dog as of today. I'm so proud of this little guy I can't even explain it. He's so incredible and I'm SO proud.

I’ve spent way too much money on fancy freeze-dried liver and boutique treats for my 1.5-year-old Golden mix, Charlie. His reaction? Meh. He’ll eat it, but he doesn't care. But yesterday? I acciden...