Ada Keating, a 98-year-old mother of four, recently moved into a care home in Huyton, Liverpool, not because she couldn’t take care of herself, but to look after her 80-year-old son Tom.
A School Included This Teen’s Service Dog In The Yearbook And It’s Adorable
A high school in Virginia has done something truly awesome. Alpha, a 4-year-old service dog who attends school every day with his human, Andrew “A.J.” Schalk, had his own photo in Stafford High School’s yearbook.
Alpha’s job is to detect when AJ’s blood sugar is getting too low or too high and to instantly alert him, because he is diabetic
Iowa Carpenter With Secret Fortune Willed His Money To Sending 33 Strangers To College
Dale Schroeder was described as a simple, humble man. He grew up poor and worked as a carpenter for the same company for 67 years.
“He was that kind of a blue-collar, lunch pail kind of a guy,” Schroeder’s friend Steve Nielsen told KCCI. “Went to work every day, worked really hard, was frugal like a lot of Iowans.”
89-Year-Old Woman Has Knitted Over 450 Blankets and Sweaters For Shelter Dogs
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89-year-old Maisie Green from the UK has knitted over 450 blankets to help dogs at the shelter stay warm during the cold nights they spend in kennels.
A couple of years ago, a dog shelter in England called Dogs Trust started an initiative asking people to knit dog coats.
Delaware Is Officially The First No-Kill State For Shelter Animals
Delaware has become the first state in the country to be designated a no-kill state for shelter animals.
The Best Friends Animal Society, which tracks no-kill rates by state, and is aiming to to make America a no-kill country by 2025, announced the news at their annual conference in Dallas, Texas.
The Human Society Is In Need Of Volunteers To Snuggle With Dogs
The Humane Society of Tampa Bay is looking for volunteers to snuggle dogs. Yes, you read that right.
The main task of pet snugglers is to cuddle dogs that just got out of surgery. Most of the dogs who need this treatment just got spayed or neutered, and cuddling with humans helps them feel better.
Owner Cries Tears Of Joy As She Is Reunited With Her Stolen Dog
When the animal rescuers first laid eyes on a big, stray dog wandering the streets of Ukraine, they could tell he had endured a lot. His years on the street had not been kind. He was emaciated and was riddled with mange.
These Kids Are Reading to Shelter Dogs for A Beautiful Reason
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The program in Missouri wants to aid children in improving their reading abilities as well as their social skills by reading to dogs in the shelter.
As part of the Shelter Buddies Reading Program at the Humane Society of Missouri, little kids are encouraged to practice reading to timid shelter dogs, to help acclimate them with human contact.
This Kind Man Put Up His Car For Sale to Save His Dog’s Life
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When you love someone, you would do anything for them, right?
In the case of Randy Etter, that someone is his dog, Gemini. The pair have been in each other’s lives since Gemini was a little puppy, and now that he’s two years old, the dog has become his in the whole world.
Farmers Stay Silent During Auction So Family Can Buy Back Their Farm
Generations before David was born, eighty acres of their small family farm in Nebraska had been separated out and willed to a distant relative. Coming from a long line of farmers David heard this story over and over as a child, and it fueled a passion within him to make the farm whole again.
In 2011, David and his family learned that the precious eighty acres was going to be sold at auction within a couple of weeks. David knew in his heart he had to give it his very best effort and was determined to win it back – and after two weeks of meticulous planning, creative thinking and sleepless nights, he and his father came up with their ‘best number’, and headed for auction.