Strider, a black cat in Olympia, Washington, has earned himself a reputation for being fat and lazy and a bit of a pain in the rump, according to his humans Barb and Kerry Gansberg. They gifted the cat to their daughters ten years ago. While the Gansbergs seem a bit disinterested in their feline companion, they […]
The Syrian city of Aleppo is one of the most dangerous places to be living in right now. And, while many of its residents have left their homes to escape the war, one man has remained behind to care for the city’s hundreds of abandoned and stray cats. Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel, also known as “the Cat Man of
Rocco the cat has become the latest “miracle cat” to be reunited with its owners in the earthquake-ravaged town of Amatrice, Italy. He was buried under the rubble for an astonishing 32 days and somehow survived! Fire officials shared the news on Twitter, announcing, “Padroni felici” — or “Happy owners.” #TerremotoItalia miagolio dopo 32 giorni! #vigilidelfuoco
Two Bridgewater, Massachusetts high school football players are being hailed as heroes after rescuing a cat stuck in a storm drain. George Lampros, 17, and Max Sergio, 18 were killing time before a football game when suddenly they heard a loud squealing coming from behind them. That’s when they realized it was meowing coming from a storm drain. “I
A cat named Gioia (Joy) has been rescued by Italian firefighters after spending six days trapped in the rubble of a collapsed house. A 6.2-magnitude earthquake rattled the central Italian town of Amatrice on August 24th, sadly killing 292 people died and injuring another 400. But, in one small bit of happy news, on Monday,
Cindy Jones first laid eyes on Vincent the cat when he was just a month old. The tiny kitten was brought into the Story County Animal Shelter with injured hind legs, but Jones immediately fell in love. That love led her to the Iowa State veterinary hospital, where Dr. Mary Sarah Bergh, and veterinary orthopedics
Mr. Stewart’s high school students are learning a valuable trade and an even more valuable lesson in compassion in his shop class. He’s having the kids build hundreds of dog houses and feral cat shelters for area rescues and needy families. It all started in 2002 when Barry Stewart, an animal lover and shop teacher
This is the remarkable story of an unlikely friendship between Pudditat, a former stray cat who has a reputation as a bully and doesn’t really get along well with the other cats in his home, and Terval, the blind chocolate Lab for whom he has become a “Seeing Eye Cat”. What a touching friendship these
A Las Vegas family is alive today, thanks to the middle-of-the-night antics of their cat waking them up and alerting them to a fire in the garage. KTNV-TV in Las Vegas reports that a fire broke out at a home in the Summerlin community around 2 o’clock in the morning on Sunday. The husband and wife were asleep,
Stevie the cat taught her owner valuable life lessons on a walk up a mountain.
