International

We all know that the holiday season can be economically straining on all of us. Some of us might opt to spend less or smarter in order to avoid maxing out credit cards or running out of cash. Other people, like the international passenger in the video below, opted to smuggle drugs to make some extra cash. Yet, this man’s “fool-proof” plan came crashing down when Pipo, a playful eight-year-old certified narcotics dog from Spain’s El-Prat Airport pointed out what the smuggler was up to.

Paco, a community dog from Lima, Peru, spends his days protecting a few blocks of his neighborhood. He is loved and fed by local residents and no one ever expected this loyal pet to get abused, let alone, that his abuser would be a volunteer firefighter.

Gato (Spanish for Cat) belonged to Benjamín González Sánchez, a homeless man from Guadalajata, Jasisco, Mexico, who unfortunately died two weeks ago of hypothermia. The dog and his owner used to sleep outside one of the entrances to Jalisco Stadium, but since the passing of González Sánchez, the dog simply roams the streets alone without anyone to look over him, get him food, or protect him from the cold.

A dog from Mexico City fell 49 feet into a cave located in the Chapultepec Forest and spent 15 days trapped in the void. Fortunately, after various attempts, animal rescuers were able to locate and pull the dog to safety.

Dogs are loyal human companions. An example of true friendship and human devotion comes from Serbia, where a male dog abandoned by his owners in a home filled with trash, almost died of starvation, waiting for his owners’ return.

Zselyko E. a volunteer at a local Serbian animal shelter contacted us to tell us the story of Vucko.

Two stray dogs from Mexico where walking along the highway connecting Monterrey and Saltillo on Sunday, Dec. 7, 2014, when a vehicle traveling at high speeds hit one of the dogs leaving him for dead. In a country where animal welfare is not a top priority, the chances of the two strays getting help were zero to none, but what happened next was just unexpected.

In A Coruña, Spain, concerned animal lovers feared that a dog walking along a building’s slanted roof top would lose its balance and fall to his own death. Luckily the dog’s owner was made aware of the precarious situation and helped bring the pet back to safer ground.

The naughty dog was home alone at the time of the incident, and through a back window, the pet was able to exit the residence and access the rooftop.

In northern Ontario, Canada, there are many stray dogs that every year face dying from starvation or brutal winter temperatures, but thanks to Friendly Giants Dog Rescue (FGDR) and Pilots N Paws Canada, three stray dogs from Sandy Lake First Nation reserve will no longer starve or be at risk of freezing to death.