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.
Four-year-old Remi Floro of Port Clinton, Ohio, had to sell his tickets to Twenty One Pilots’ Ohio Stadium show when his leukemia relapsed and his bone marrow transplant was scheduled. Josh Dun and Tyler Joseph visited his hospital room instead, and Dun wore Remi’s name on stage.
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.