Adopted

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.

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.

Three-year-old Sapphyre Johnson knows there is something special and different about her, she was born without fingers and feet. This birth defect has not stopped her from being a happy playful child, but now she has something else to be happier about. Sapphyre has a very special best friend, a puppy, who was born without his front right paw.

The Steiner family from Nova, Ohio, had no idea transporting caged puppies on their minivan’s roof was illegal, but thanks to dozens of calls to 911 and quick acting officers, the family was stopped and the traumatized puppies rescued.

On April 16, 2015, a sweet female Pit bull believed to be about two-years-old was found tied to a pole in Atlanta’s Hartsfield Jackson International Airport. The dog spent a few hours abandoned in the parking lot, but thanks to police officers, the dog was rescued and has found a new home.