Rascal, an American Bully, spent more than 300 days at the Humane Society of Northeast Georgia, becoming its longest-stay resident. When a new dad finally adopted him, he brought a step stool from home to help Rascal into the car, and millions of viewers fell in love.
Four cats were found shaking, soaking wet and covered in fleas inside a mesh tunnel left out in heavy rain in Asbury Park, New Jersey. The Monmouth County SPCA nursed Morticia, Delilah, Matisse and Autumn back to health, and less than two weeks later all four were adopted.
Tillie’s owners surrendered her to a Philadelphia shelter and asked for euthanasia, saying she was old, not eating and falling over. Then she walked into the Pennsylvania SPCA’s hospital wagging her tail, and a New Jersey couple who love senior dogs took her home.
Peggy-Sue the bulldog weighed 32.5kg when she arrived at RSPCA West Hatch and had to be carried to her kennel in a crate. A patient foster carer and a Taunton family who had just lost their dog helped her shed 9kg, and now she loves beaches, streams and cuddles.
D’Amber Davis chatted with cashier Katelyn Sparks almost every day at a Central Georgia gas station. When she learned Katelyn was 33 weeks pregnant and couldn’t care for the baby, she asked a life-changing question. Now she is adopting baby Nolan, and the two women call each other sisters.
Sadie, a collie cross rescued by the RSPCA from a Cornwall property with about 200 dogs, spent nearly three years in kennels. On day 83 of daily videos, Mabel Edge from Westward Ho! saw her and brought her home.
Eight poodle-cross dogs from a January overcrowding rescue reunited with RSPCA carers at West Norfolk’s Eau Brink centre near King’s Lynn — and every one of them now has a forever home.
Pulled from a 38-dog hoarding case in Idaho, a poodle-mix puppy named Teedee was diagnosed with a dangerous PDA heart defect. After surgery at WSU, the veterinarian who fostered him adopted him.
Cincinnati Animal CARE built Tiny Gelato a wheelchair from Hot Wheels cars after a spinal injury left him without use of his hind legs — and on October 13, Hope Hollandsworth adopted him into a home with two other special-needs cats.
Harley, a senior dog at the Wayne County Humane Society in Wooster, racked up more than 5 million video views without a single adoption application — until Amanda and Jesse Schossler changed their minds after losing two dogs.