Luna, a 10-year-old Jack Russell and Chihuahua mix, darted out of her family’s Yellowstone cabin on Sept. 10 and survived more than a month among bears and wolves. A volunteer rescuer set a live trap baited with her family’s scent, and on Oct. 14 her owner found her curled up inside.
Two Fort Worth rescuers raced to save a severely emaciated dog trapped in a muddy spillway where snakes lurked, two days before it flooded. At the shelter, her microchip revealed her name was Sadie, and her dad had been searching for her for two and a half months.
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.
A Georgia vet clinic expected five or six puppies from a rescue dog in for a spay — and got 15. So it called Cobb County’s Station 21, whose crew had just learned pet CPR from that same clinic.
Late Friday before Isaias landfall, a Nate’s Honor Animal Rescue staffer drove into the storm’s path and brought 22 dogs — many seniors or special-needs, including blind Betty White — to safety in Bradenton.
A man clearing a fence in Chapel Hill, Texas, heard whimpering from a water-filled concrete hole. Smith County Constable Josh Joplin helped him lift out Astro with a lariat rope, and the dog went home to his family.
On Oct 11, Phoenix firefighters rescued three dogs and three cats from a house fire near 37th and Van Buren, reviving some with Fido oxygen masks before Arizona Humane Society care.
Crews battling a house fire on Westview Avenue in Bedford, Virginia, found a large dog unconscious inside. They carried him out, and EMS revived him before he was rushed to an emergency vet.
After Hurricane Isaias, 14-year-old golden retriever Benny ended up at the bottom of a 20-foot-deep ditch in Tallahassee. Firefighters from Station 6 climbed down and brought him home.
When a frightened dog named Cody backed even farther under a backyard shed in Bay Shore, New York, firefighters stopped digging and brought out air bags, hydraulic rescue tools and cribbing. It took about 20 minutes.