(CNN) — A 12-year-old boy left his puppy outside a shelter with a stuffed animal and a touching note: He wanted to spare him the wrath of his abusive father. The boy, who identfied himself as Andrés, left the pitbull puppy at a shelter in the Mexican state of Michoacan on February 13. A dog […]
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Firefighters in Northern California made an unusual animal rescue recently. A German shepherd chased a cat up a tree in San Joaquin County, nearly to the top, where the dog then got stuck. Photos shared Saturday by the Lathrop Manteca Fire District show firefighters using a ladder to get the stuck dog from the tree […]
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Two teen boys were electrocuted and died Monday in a canal in Dixon, according to the California Highway Patrol and Solano County Sheriff’s Office. The CHP, Dixon Fire Department and sheriff’s deputies responded to the scene where the teens reportedly were trying to rescue a dog from the canal and came in contact with a […]
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A man who became caught in the jetty in Ocean Beach after attempting to rescue his dogs from the rough waters has died, authorities said Thursday. Gregg Owens and his wife were walking on the Ocean Beach shoreline when their dogs were swept away by the ocean amid strong rip currents and high surf conditions […]
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When two volunteer rescuers responding to Florence in North Carolina helped free six dogs from a crate submerged in floodwaters on Sunday, they didn’t do it for attention, but attention is what they got — a lot of it. The two volunteers, Ryan Nichols and David Rebollar, along with journalist Marcus DiPaola, were helping people […]
