International

A street dog in Guayaquil, Ecuador nearly lost his life in a sewage canal that was too steep for him to climb, had it not been for the lone, redeeming human being who noticed him struggling and got him out and onto dry land.

The dog was soaking wet, filthy, uncomfortable, and obviously unable to scale the embankment.  He kept trying to get up, and looking towards everyone to help him.

No one knows why a man in Cartago, Costa Rica, decided to attack a gentle, mixed breed dog with a machete, but the animal abuser did just that and inflicted six deep wounds on a sweet dog. Somehow the pet survived the gruesome attack. Today, he is known as “Machi” and is expected to make a full recovery.

Street dogs in India are a common site all over the country.  With a copious population of people and street dogs there, sometimes the dogs can cause a bit of trouble now and then.  Now, in an effort to make the streets safer for everyone, dogs are being recruited to form a special security squad that will be deployed in busy market areas, hopefully to lower crime.

A friendly dog from Lima, Peru, is looking for his owner after he somehow hopped on a bus and got lost, but lucky for him, a kind woman named Aidé Montero, noticed the lost and confused pet and decided to help him.

On August 5, 2014, 23-year-old Adrian Garcia from Guayaquil, Ecuador, became a hero when he took his shoes off and climbed over a fence to descend a canal’s steep, concrete wall, to rescue an innocent dog that had fallen in and couldn’t climb out to safety.

While Emilia Lucchese walked the streets of Messina, Sicily, she discovered an abandoned and dehydrated dog dumped inside a garbage container. The male dog was weak and had his legs tied up with wire. Someone dumped the innocent pet inside a garbage can. Lucchese only realized there was an animal in need inside the container, after overhearing the dog’s faint whines. When she opened the bin’s lid she discovered a tied plastic bag with the agonizing dog inside it.