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An animal lover found an emaciated dog weighing just 15 lbs. The pet is now with animal control and police are looking for dog's abusers.
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An animal rescue organization and thousands of donations help an injured puppy learn to walk again.
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Just a year ago, Shelton, a young mutt from Resistencia, Argentina, showed up to the surrounding area of the Normal Sarmiento school. No one knew who he belonged to and most people didn’t care about the homeless puppy. He scavenged for food and searched for a safe place to spend at night, but without him knowing it, a group of students, school librarians and other locals who fell in love with the dog took it upon themselves to help him survive.

Brian Lachat says intersection US-41 and Goodlette Frank Road in Naples, Fla., is a busy one, and seeing a box in the middle of the road is very unusual. On May 1, 2015, the man witnessed how that box, which was in a reality a dog crate, got hit by three cars and bounced from one lane to the other, and when he caught a glimpse of it in his rear-view mirror, the man realized there was a dog inside the crate.

A pet store in Brazil swapped all of its animals with shelter pets and proved its customers that shelter pets were no different than pure bred animals. The store found owners for all shelter animals displayed in the store and what’s best, if the store hadn’t told customers the animals were shelter pets, customers would have not known the difference.

On April 25, 2015, Lon Benner from Tacoma, Wash., discovered a trash bag with a Pit bull mother and her 11 puppies in it. Sadly, all but two puppies survived, now police investigators are asking the community to step up, bring justice to these animals and help them apprehend the criminal(s) who killed the puppies’ mom and their nine siblings.

In La Paz, El Salvador, a stray dog named Oso who lives around the Santa Maria Ostuma police station, saved all on-duty officers from a gang attack, when the dog fought off gang members forcing them to flee.

On April 22, 2015, we all saw the magnificent but dangerous volcanic eruption that took place near Puerto Varas, Chile. We were all amazed with the beautiful images and videos of the Calbulco volcano, and at the same time were glad to learn that no casualties have been registered as of yet. People have been evacuated from the area because of the health threat the ashes in the atmosphere present.