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.
Elyria, Ohio firefighters and their dive team rescued a dog trapped on a log in the Black River just upstream of a low-head dam. They floated him to shore in a life ring, named him River, and now he is waiting at the county kennel for his family.
Hemi was just three months old and almost completely hairless when a Good Samaritan stopped for him on the drive home to St. Louis. After months of care with Stray Rescue of St. Louis, his coat is back and his foster mom is keeping him.
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.