Neo, a dog, has been abused very badly, says the police from the phone. He was very shy and scared when he got to the shelter Best Friends Animal Society in Bentonville, Arkansas, but finally warmed up to everyone there. Everyone loved him because he was so sweet and caring. No one knows why the owner abused him, and especially this dog that is so sweet. Neo’s abuser is going to trial soon and hopefully pay for his actions. Neo had to wait 465 days to even have a chance to get adopted, because he needed to wait for the abuse case to go through the court because he was evidence for the case.

Finally, after the abuse case went fully through the court, he could finally be able to get adopted by somebody. When a lady named Linda Songbird came to the shelter she fell in love with Neo and wanted to adopt him, Neo was so comfortable with her, it was amazing! “To meet a dog who had been through all of that who just immediately trusted you and immediately wanted attention from you was just mind-blowing… Neo was one that I was like ‘oh my gosh, we’re making a difference’” said Ali Paepke the manager of the shelter Neo was in. After this, Neo found a nice, comfortable, safe home and lived happily with Linda.

Neo is a shelter dog in central Arkansas that had been abused and been in a shelter for more than 450 days. Ali Paepke (the shelter owner) had very little hope that neo would be adopted. What happened to the dog, I wish no other dog would have to go through. She had a cruelty case and had been abused a lot of time before. But then hope arises in a form of a human. Linda Songbird was shocked at how many times Neo was abused and adopted her. This article was published on January 2nd 2024.

A quote from Linda Songbird, “It makes your life worthwhile” and “And he’s wonderful. He’s there as soon as you come in. He’s right at the door. Happy to see you.” This shows that Neo is loved and that he’s fully content with his new family and not being abused anymore. This shows that good people still exist, and that miracles can happen.

A miracle happened at Hopkinsville, Kentucky  when Bolo, a stray pit bull, showed up at the local police station and joined chief of police Jason Newby and his cops in the force, “Oddly enough, everybody fell in love with him,” said Police chief Jason Newby“So when it came time for him to go back that day, they got him in his cage, and he kind of dropped his head and whimpered, and everybody’s heart melted, and we decided to adopt him.”

This heartwarming story caught the attention of people worldwide when the badging ceremony was posted on Facebook and this wonderful pup was dubbed the “Paw-trol” the story of Bolo appearing on the cop’s doorstep and being recruited, and becoming “police’s best friend”.

On December 27th, 2023 a Massachusetts man named David Moulton saved a toddler from escaping from a daycare running toward a busy street. The toddler had been loose for about 30 minutes and seen wandering around the sidewalks near Massachusetts daycare, Salem Community Child Care. “I just scooped him up before he got to the street over there” Said Mr. Moulton. Mr. Moulton has been working as a postal worker for 8 years and saw the three-year-old run by him twice. The incident happened near Central Street. Many had seen him wandering around or near the street, and at first he thought he was playing with other kids and was fine. The second time, he scooped up the toddler and called 911. One thing he said was that “He’s got no shoes and no jacket on, it’s like, this isn’t right. I’m wearing four layers of clothing, you know.” This shows that he used his instincts and saved him. “He ran past me this way first in the park. At first, I didn’t think anything of it, I thought he was playing with kids or something like that, and then all of a sudden, he zipped by me again, I thought he’s heading to a busy street.” This shows that he just saw him and took action to save the kid's life.

Have you heard about the Saiga antelope?  Probably not, it was an endangered species that lived in Central Asia. The Saiga was endangered because of poachers, habitat loss, and sickness. But it is no longer endangered! It is no longer endangered because of environment conserve groups. 

This is good because that these groups can focus on other animals in danger and save more animals. The Saiga will finally have a spot in the world.

By Cole fisher

Salisbury police department officer Cory Brooks saved an unconscious truck driver from a fiery car crash and saved his life. This incident happened on September 6th, 2023. This horrific thing happened in North Carolina on one of the highways by Salisbury. Why he did this because he wanted to spread a good act of kindness. 

A quote from Cory Brook's Life is brief but impactful. Act now to create ripples that resonate. Your time on earth is a canvas to paint with purpose and meaning. Be impactful, and leave a lasting impression. The truck driver is now safe and healthy and will never forget this moment.

Zahed Haftlang was an Iranian medic who fought in the Iran and Iraq war. This war lasted eight years, going on from 1980 to 1988. In 1982 Zahed Haftlang was a medic in the war Khorramshahr, while on the other side, Najah Aboud, was a soldier who fought for Iraq in the war. Najah Aboud crawls into a bunker to die after being wounded. Then Zahed Haftlang, the Iranian medic, runs in and saves him from death instead of killing him.

After that, they never saw each other again. Then Twenty years after the war, they both met again in a waiting room. Zahed said “Najah is like family, he really is my angel, because he gave me a new chance at life. He is the dearest and most precious thing in the entire world to me.” This just goes to show how brave Zahed was to save Najah. Najah was conscripted into the army at eighteen. He was very brave to have fought at such a young Age. Also, how fortunate he was to have someone as kind-hearted as Zahed Haftlang to save him from death.

                                                             By Emily Collins

Ricca Soto, a 30-year-old woman, was trapped in a burning car in Florida driving south on the highway and was driving in the wrong lane and slammed head on into a car. This scary incident occurred on December 29, 2023, just after midnight and when this happened, luckily there was a patrol officer driving on the highway watching all of it happen. When patrol officer Richard Brewster called for back up, the car started smoking, but luckily his backup showed up. As they showed up, he ran over to the car and was checking if Ricca Soto had a pulse. When the car started flaming a little bit everyone was saying back up there's fire and the patrol officer said no there's someone still in the car. 

In the end, Ricca ended up getting saved and as soon as they took her out of the car it started fuming with flames she was very lucky to be alive, any longer she would have been stuck in the fuming car. Her stepdaughter Elizabeth Soto said, "It's really challenging to even watch that video and know it's somebody close to me.”  This hero cop ended up being at the right place at the right time and saved someone's life because he was.   

BY ALEXANDER PRESTON EL-HAG

So there were some scientists at Atlantis, Emory university. Then one of the scientists wanted to study dogs, so he put the dog in the M.R.I machine, and then he found something shocking! He found that dogs can understand you! They think dogs can understand us because if you keep on using the same words, for example if you say fetch and play it they will understand what fetch mean’s. They found this on November 25, 2018. 

Some scientists believe that when you say a word that they don't know, they come up with a picture in their head of what they think you want them to do. 

A quote for this is: “Many dog owners think that their dogs know what some words mean, but there really isn’t much scientific evidence to support that. We wanted to get data from the dogs themselves — not just owner reports,” said Ashley Prichard, a Ph.D. at Emory’s Department of Psychology and the study’s first author.

Thank you for reading this, I hope you learned something about dogs. Dogs are great animals, maybe you can get a dog one day.

 Now, doctors around America might still be using the robot dog that saved many lives during covid. Boston Dynamics was even smart enough to attach a UVC light on the back of the robot do and that kills virus partials around the robot dog's area. People can control the dog with a video game controller. This little dog that was made by Boston Dynamics saved many lives.

One day, as a group of hikers was walking up a mountain trail on Mount Tammany in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area. The temperature was getting to 90 degrees when they found a person whose dog was way too hot, and super dehydrated. The group gave the dog all their water, but it was still dehydrated. It was clear the dog needed the vet. The owner was tired himself, so he couldn’t carry the dog down the trail. Then, he called Kris, one of the park rangers there. He found the owner and hoisted the dog onto his back to carry him down the mountain. He carried him approximately two miles down a very rocky path. Eventually, he got to a stream, where he laid the dog in the water and showered it on him. Then he hiked down to the street. The owner then got the dog to the vet. "The dog was looking a little bit better by the time he got in the car and picking up his head," says Tori Matyola.

Thankfully, the 100 pound German Shepard was able to survive thanks to the park ranger Kris Salapek. Later, Lexie (one of the hikers that found the owner and the dog.) posted about what Kris did that day, it went viral. That trek through the forest took about an hour, while carrying the huge dog on his back. As you can see, Kris Salapek did something heroic that day, it can make us feel a little better about the world today.

It was 4:00am and a mother from Phoenix, Arizona, Claudia Jimenez, to find wake up to find a huge fire in her apartment. She couldn’t escape through the front door because the fire was blocking it. Claudia woke up her 1-year-old Valerie and her 8-year-old Natalie. She screamed out her balcony, “Help! Please help!” No firefighters were nearby to help her, but a man names Joe Hollins who lived in a homeless encampment lived right next to Claudia’s apartment overheard her screaming for help. 

He walked up underneath the woman's window and told her to throw her kids out the balcony, and he would catch them and bring her to safety. Claudia at first did not want to because she did not know the man and didn’t know if she trusted him. But he was her only hope, so Claudia dropped her kids out of the window and the man caught all of them safely. Without Joe, Claudia’s family would have probably not have survived. 

After the family was saved by Joe, everything in their apartment was burned and they lost everything. After more and more people heard this story, community members want to support and help the family get back on their feet, and help Joe after what he did to save this family's life.

Homeless man saves family from fire.

 She was stuck there for 30 minutes until officer smith saved her from getting hyperthermia or from drowning, so Kona was a pretty lucky dog to survive that, and the officer returned the dog rightfully gave Kona back to her owner. We are not sure how Kona is doing right now, but hopefully she is living her best life in New York City.

Police officer rescues trapped dog.
By Will.

    

Jayna started the project after Donald Trump gave his first speeches, about building a wall on the boarders of Mexico and America. Her grandparents were immigrants, and after she heard this news, she was upset. 

After the speeches, Mexican immigrants started coming to America, and she made blankets for them. To welcome them to America.

Now more people than ever have joined in this project. People knit, sew, and crochet and blankets, that people choose at events. In Vermont, Aisha Bitini, who had picked one of the blankets at the event, said“I’m so blessed to have one of them,”. People feel welcomed by these blankets. Now most of these blankets are made for Ukrainian refugees coming from Ukraine.

By : Grace Wehking

Have you ever heard of the famous artist, Vincent Van Gogh? Maybe you’ve heard of his namesake, an eight-year-old boxer-pit-bull mix. When he was four years old, he was used as bait in a dog fighting ring. He was so injured, a shelter in North Carolina had to have his left ear surgically removed. (much like the real Van Gogh, who cut off his left ear). Van Gogh was then taken care at the North Carolina shelter. They tried to get him adopted, but if they didn’t in time, the sweet dog would have to be put down. Jaclyn Gartner, of the Happily Furever After Rescue, saw this poor dog and put Van Gogh on a non-profit coordination, called Pilots N paws. They put him on a plane, and flew him to Gartner, who was determined to find this dog a forever home. Van Gogh was friendly from the start. But still, no one wanted to adopt him. 

Jaclyn almost gave up, until she came up with an Idea. She wanted to make Van Gogh to look more appealing, so she decided to teach him how to “paint.” She got a canvas, dotted it with different color paints, and put it in a plastic bag. Then, she smeared peanut butter on to the bag, and let the lovable artist take over from there. "I'd seen TikTok videos of other dogs creating paintings, so why not Van Gogh?" He certainly had the name and the ear for it," Jaclyn explained to The Washington Post. She then started selling his paintings. They started selling almost immediately. Everyone had heard of Van Gogh, but still, no one wanted him. Finally, Jessica Starowitz, a local foster volunteer fell in love with the pooch, and adopted him. Now, he lives in Connecticut, making paintings to sell online. He finally has a place to call home.

Have you ever wondered why little kids like stuffed animals so much? Well, dogs love them, too. An adorable stray labrador mix was caught trying to steal a stuffed unicorn from a dollar general in Kennencefield, North Carolina, not once, not twice, but 5 TIMES. After the 5th time the manager called animal control, and soon officer Samantha Lane showed up. She bought the unicorn for him, and sure enough, he followed her into the car. “I’m astounded by his affinity for the unicorn,” Samantha Lane says. Soon enough, he was adopted and named Sisu, from the movie “Raya And The Last Dragon”

In the icy winter of Denver, Colorado, Dusti Talavera was sitting in the living room of her house, looking out the window. Three kids were happily playing on a pond right next to her house. Talavera looked away, but when she glanced back, the ice had cracked, and the children were struggling to stay above water in the fifteen feet deep pond. Before Talavera realized what she was doing, she was running out, pulling the kids out of the water. She pulled out an eleven-year-old, and a four-year-old, but as she went for the 6-year-old, Talavera fell in too. “I tried to hold her head up, I tried to hold my head up, the pond was really deep. A young man threw us a rope. He pulled us out,” said Talavera. The sixteen-year-old cousin of the six–year-old grabbed a rope and was able to pull the both of them out of the freezing pond. By the time they were out safely, the six-year-old had lost all consciousness. Talavera pulled the six-year-old out to the sidewalk, and soon later, the sirens of red ambulances came rolling down the road. The officials gave the girl CPR, and she made it to the hospital breathing, and with a pulse. The girl is alive and well, and 23-year-old Dusti Talavera is a hero. 

Back at the station, the fire department contemplates what would have happened if one of their children got into the same accident. “It was a perfect storm. We were talking back at the fire station after it happened, and I hope is something like that happened to one of my boys, someone like her would be close by.” Says South Metro Fire Engineer Corey Sutton. And because of Dusti Talavera, a Colorado hero, children were saved. 

                           By Noah Zentko

January 10, 2022, 10-month-old lab named Kona walked onto frozen lake in Lewiston, New York. The lake name was Bond lake. The geese startled Kona and Kona went to scare them off, and she ran onto the lake to do that, when she was about 50 yards away from shore she fell in. After she fell in, the owner called 911.

After the rescue, Police wrote about the save on Facebook and officer got praised after the rescue. Lake Bond was only about 10–30 miles from Nigeria falls.

“Although she is a strong swimmer, there was zero chance of her getting out” said the owner

Even though the dog was harmed, she ended up well.

The dog got abused and survived a bad abuses For no reason at all, the owner that made the dog get abused on the 20th of December 2023 the dog after getting attacked went to the Hull PDSAAnimal hospital In East YorkersThey're the dog was cared for and taken. In And was given a home a couple of weeks later to live in a nice home the man was sentence to a 5-year ban from having pets which is a good thing Because this means less abuses can happen in each year and that makes it likely for pets to survive and live a very happy life. In the abuse, a bat was used.

                                                    By Emily Krsulich

The dog got abused and survived a bad abuses For no reason at all, the owner that made the dog get abused                                       on the 20th of December 2023 the dog after getting attacked went to the Hull PDSAAnimal hospital In East YorkersThey're the dog was cared for and taken. In And was given a home a couple of weeks later to live in a nice home the man was sentence to a 5-year ban from having pets which is a good thing Because this means less abuses can happen in each year and that makes it likely for pets to survive and live a very happy life. In the abuse, a bat was used.

Late one august, Richard Rodriguez was camping near Lake Tahoe with his four friends and his pit bull Russ.  Russ ran away after being frightened by someone. Rodrguze and his friends search for hours looking for him. Then on December 16 at Twin Peaks, a skier found a dog covered in snow. The animal service was not able to get the dog. Later, Paws and TLC Fury Fiends and a woman named Gaule found him and rapped him up in blankets. Finally, Russ got back home safely.         

By : Taylor Ogden 

One day on August 19th kaley szarmack was wading knee-deep in the ocean on the Jacksonville Beach when she felt a sharp pain in her leg. At first, she thought it was a crab pinching her leg, But when she looked down and saw many Lacerations on the side of her leg. She yelled at her 6-year-old friend to warn her, and then waddled out of the water. She yelled up to her mom that there was a shark, but then she turned around and saw that her 6-year-old friend did not hear her and was still happily playing In the water.  Kaleys Parents were sitting far up on the beach and could not hear her. Even though Kaleys was wounded, she jumped into the water and saved her friend. Kaley was rushed to the Wolfson Children's Hospital and saved.

If you want a heartwarming story, this is the story for you. One day in 2021, a stray Labrador mix in Duplin, North Carolina, specifically Kenansville NC, dashes into a Dollar General running to one place that's set in her hart. She is running to the toy section to get a small pink stuffed unicorn. It's in her sight when, Bam! The employee grabs her and puts her outside again. And guess what? He tried to steel it 5 more times! But on the fifth time, The store called animal control. When animal control officer Samantha Lane arrived, the dog was sitting in the parking lot, eagerly awaiting her next chance to steel. Samantha felt so bad that she bought the poor stray the $10 unicorn, and brought it to the station. The story of the adorable puppy and his new stuffed friend got around quickly, and Sisu was adopted after only a few days. “I was astounded by the dogs’ affinity for the unicorn.” Said Samantha Lane. I hope this story has brightened your day.

                      By Jayden Madhoun

One early December in 2023 at Utah private school a mom and two kids were walking to the door but suddenly there on the ground. After three minutes the principal saw the mother and two kids he rushed to get as many high schoolers as possible. A few minutes later the high schoolers get out and lift the car to the side and call the ambulance.

A few minutes later the ambulance arrived and rushed to the hospital. The mom went under surgery, and the two and three year old had abrasions and bruises around them.

The mom said “ she was under the car for 3 minutes. Wow, that's a long time under a car. It was a tiny car too.

Although the mom and two kids got ran over by a car they were not seriously injured.  

 It helped a lot of people, and it still might be helping people today.

Last year on December 1, 2023, the US air force came together with Japan, Canada, with the ground support of the Philippines and Australia to be able to complete Operation Christmas Drop. Operation Christmas Drop has been going on since 1952, the idea of it is to donate non-perishable food, fishing supplies, school books and toys to people who need them to remote islands across the Pacific Ocean.

Operation Christmas Drop was possible because of fundraising events such as golf tournaments and sponsored runs, as well as local businesses sponsoring individual boxes. Because of this, Operation Christmas Drop delivered 210 boxes across 1.8 million square miles. In conclusion because of Operation Christmas Drop over forty-thousand people got the presents they need to help them enjoy the holiday!

Terry the whippet is a once abused dog.  In 2021, he was brought to the Hull PDSA Animal Hospital in Yorkshire, England. Terry was treated by Rachel Coombes. He was 12 weeks old when he was brought to the animal hospital. There they saw signs of abuse. They discovered his lips, and the white of his eye was bruised. Another tooth was broken, and three of his upper incisors were missing. Because of the weird injuries, Laura Barber, RSPCA inspector, was told to investigate. Terry owner appeared in court and admitted to animal abuse. Terry's Abuser, was sentenced to five years without being allowed to keep a pet. 

Forty - two-year-old, Rachel Coombes, fell in love with the puppy as soon as she saw him, she told her colleagues she wanted to adopt him,  “I just felt such a connection as soon as he was brought in, as he was in such a state”  “He hasn’t looked back since - and is having the best of life right now. He enjoys running around the garden and going to the beach.” “He has formed a close bond with my son Stanley and will always be there by his side” this shows how Terry has been affected, and not in a bad way. He lives with a family instead of being abused.

Rachel adopted Terry after the state she saw him in such a bad state. She felt a connection right when she saw him. Rachel not only gave him a family, she gave him a best friend, Rachel's son, Stanley, has formed a huge bond with terry. Terry’s and Rachel's story, sent a positive message around the world against animal cruelty. The uplifting tale travels far around the world, giving a beacon of inspiration and hope for many people.

In Pike Lake, in the Minneapolis on Monday 27 November the lake was frozen. With the lake being frozen, people and animals get stuck in the of the frozen lake, this time it was a deer. The deer’s hoofs were breaking the ice slowly. Emergency teams were call to come and save the poor deer. When they arrived, they crawled across the ice to the deer. Emergency teams used a “y” shaped pole to grab the deer and bring it to safety.

The city of Prior Lake described the heroic incident on Instagram.“It was struggling to get off of the thin ice. Firefighters put on their protective gear and carefully crawled across the ice. They were successfully able to push the deer to shore.”

On November 12 Dane Entze saved a woman who drove her car off the Snake River bridge in Idaho. With the tempters at 19 degrees, Dane jumped in any way. One hundred twenty feet from shore, the women said I'm committing suicide and I don't want to live anymore. Then Dane said I don't know who you are, but I'm here, and I love you, and I'm going to help you Dane swamped her over to the shore as the rescue team arrived the rescue team said. 

“We would like to express our gratitude to the Good Samaritan who risked their own life to save another,” said the Idaho Falls Fire Department Public Information Officer. “We are incredibly thankful both parties were able to make it out of the freezing water. Dane said, I knew we didn't have enough time. Dane said that was the very first spot me and my wife took our first date.

A heroic foster dog, named Moose, has been in a foster care for just about 4 months, on one of his trips with his possibly new owners, On their houseboat at 7:03 Am. The dog synced a fire on their houseboat while every won was asleep, luckily the dog was there to wake up Shelia and Chris Jane that there was a fire. That one signal save the 5 people that lived on that houseboat.

 The next day, the dog got adopted by the Jane's and found his forever home.“The paperwork was to be finalized the next day, so we had one last night with Moose before he went to his new home. We spoiled him that day with an ice cream pup cup, a visit to the park, and a chicken sandwich,” Quoted from the Jane's. The dog was practically a hero, the morning. 

Neo is a very special shelter dog that has been abused for a while, neo has been in the shelter for over 450 days or around one year. When neo first came to the shelter, he was defensive, injured and fearful of the workers. When a Forster family came to look at neo and posted a picture of neo and an old woman named Linda really liked neo and adopted him.

“When animals are taken to shelters on cruelty cases, they are considered evidence and cannot leave,” according to Ali Paepke.  It took only one day for Linda and neo to bond, and then Linda knew she wanted to adopt neo. Neo's original shelter made a card for neo, and all the people who worked there signed it. 

Brazilian artist, pet lover, and environmentalist, Amarildo Silva Filho, was walking on the streets of Campina Grande, Brazil when he'd noticed unused big piles of old tires, he also saw many stray dog and cats without beds sleeping on the floor. Noticing these things, he sparked an idea to start using those old tires to make beds for the stray dog and cats. How, you might ask? Silva Filho quit his job in retail to focus on his mission. To make the beds first, he cleans them out, then he saws off the top half, next covers the center hole with plywood, after that he sews in colorful cushions and pillows, so the pests are comfortable, Finally he paints each tire with bright colors and patterns, and even the pets name so they feel at home.

Silva Filho's beds were getting so popular that he turned his tires into a business, Comenius Pets.  He advertised his business through social media like Instagram. Most profits of Comenius Pets went to Animal shelters in Brazil. Silva Filho also enjoys volunteering and animal shelters on the weekend. Silva Filho started making his beds and 2019 and has made over 6,000 pet beds and hopes to continue making many more. Silva Filho is happy with what he does and does a great job, Silva Filho believes, ¨ The only way to do a great job is to love what you do, ¨ He was quotes saying by My Modern Met. A website that showcases meaningful art 

 On November 12, 2022, Hansel Enmanuel scored his first points in college. He only had one arm to shoot and dribble. He got the crowd going crazy for himself in his first game with a thunderous dunk in the 4th quarter and brought the whole crowd of more than 1,500 humans to their feet.

When Hansel was six years old, a cinder block wall came down on him, and he lost his arm sadly he was under the wall for two hours straight, and he was hospitalized for about six months, he once said, “I didn't want to do anything. I couldn't tie my shoelaces, I couldn't have a glass of water," he recalled years later. After some time, Emmanuel returned to playing basketball, against his parent's wishes.” 

This is truly amazing

The puppies that aren’t hers are African painted dogs and had a mother that was not caring enough for them.

And so, the zoo saw this and gave them to a golden retriever whose name is Kassy who had just had her own puppies. They needed a surrogate mother because they rely on a social group that they are born into. 

Even though they had an amazing, caring mother, they still had trouble thriving because there were not many of their species in the potawatomi zoo. Their names were red, orange and blue so no caretakers got attached

to the puppies. 

On January 4, 2022, which was a Monday, truckers were extremely generous when hundreds of travelers and drivers were stranded on an icy interstate for a very long time. The incident occurred on Virginia’s 1-95 highway. The trucker had given food and water to the people because many were stuck for almost 24 hour and more. Some people could have run out of gas, which would have been very bad. A snowstorm had occurred, and many people were still on the highway. On Monday, it was very cold, but Tuesday, it was 16 degrees. But the nice truckers gave some people warm breakfast.

The reason of the people being stuck was because of the snowstorm, which caused a car crash. Six tractor-trailers were in the crash, that was taking place in the storm involved in the car crash. The truckers were handing out food to some of the drivers, who were very concerned about being stuck and running out of water and food. There were hundreds of drivers and travelers, and most of the people got food. One out of the many truck drivers said that they had supplies and how if people needed it, they should ask for it. One of the reporters, Jim DeFede, even got a case of water from the truck drivers. The truckers were walking around many of the hundreds of cars, trying to give them food.

Even though Laney survived, she broke 11 bones, had to wire her jaw shut, and she had to re-learn how to walk. When she came out of the hospital, she was in a wheelchair, and had many surgeries on her foot and hand. Laney couldn’t remember most of what happened, but she did remember something important. She tells news reporters from the People, “I felt this feeling in my stomach like the plane just dropped, and my dad had his feet out like he was bracing for something,” she said. “The last thing I remember is my dad giving me the tightest hug ever.

4-year-old Cleo Smith was camping with her family in caravan, Australia. It was their first day camping at Quobba blowholes camping ground when she had gone missing. Cleo was sleeping next to her younger sister’s cot. When her mother, who had been sleeping in the other room in the tent. Got up in the morning and Cleo was gone, The door of the tent was left open. After 18 days, Cleo was found when police smashed their way into an empty room when Cleo was found in one of the room’s. A police officer picked her up and asked, “what’s your name?” Cleo responded, "My name is Cleo, this is the outcome I hoped and prayed for.”  Police footage of Cleo’s rescue showed her smiling. The police later detained a 36-year-old man who had no apparent connection with the family. Thankfully in this case this little girl is fine, but everybody should be aware of their surroundings, especially kids.  

On June 12, 2022, In Louisiana, Robert Brantley was shocked to see a kitten on the side of the road. He got out of his car to go and grab the kittens in hopes of being able to keep him, but to his surprise, 12 more kittens emerged from the tall grass on the side lines. Robert Blantley saw the weary and dirty cat, he thought he could go and rescue the kitten, but when 12 more came rushing his way he was happy to rescue the other 12 as well. However, he didn't keep them all as he wrote “anyone wanting at kitten at screaming price? I’ll cut you a deal.” After successfully rescuing all 12 kittens, he gave all of them a warm bath and some milk.

This single act of kindness led to saving 12 kittens lives that day, This shows that anyone can help people or animals. As he was bringing the 13 kittens home, he noted, “The tactical Honda was not prepared for this.” Though he was just trying to help, people on Instagram let him know that if the mother was out hunting he just separated them, but I think he did the right thing saving all the kittens and bringing them to loving homes.

Li Jingwei was kidnapped at the age of four years old by a close neighbor that his parents were good friends with. The kidnapping happened in 1988 in Yunnan, China. After the kidnapping, he was tooken to live with another family in central China, where he grew up the rest of his life. During the day of his new home, he would feel homesick. So, he would draw pictures of his house and village. As he grew older, he drew more detailed drawings, and his drawing became maps of his hometown. This encouraged him to find his parents again. Soon, pictures of his maps stared to leak out to the internet, and it went viral on social media. It got a lot of people's attention, even the Ministry of Public Security jumped in to help find his parents. Months later, authorities were able to locate his birth mother. They weren't a hundred percent sure it was her, so they took a DNA test to see, and it was the real birth mom. Finally, on the internet, a video of the reunion of the mom and son popped up and showed Jingwei falling to his mother's feet and hugging her in tears, surrounded by family and friends.  “I’ve finally found my baby,” said Jingwei’s mother.

Oddball, a dog that saved the world's smallest penguin in Australia on May twenty-fourth of 2023.

If a fox came near the penguins, Oddball would chase them away.

The penguins were only thirty-five centimeters tall. Oddball attacked foxes that were near the penguins. That brought the penguin population up to one hundred and eighty penguins more.The dogs don’t actually attack the foxes, they just hang out on the island in Paris. If they smell a fox in the distance, their deep, basso barks are enough to scare the predators away.

On March 24, 2018 in Arizona, on patrol, Lt. Brian Zach Kingman, rescued 2-year-old girl Kaila. Kaila got abused and needed to go to the hospital. She had all kinds of injuries, being a dislocated elbow, a brain bleed, and a skull fracture. Her Biological parents abused her, and got custody taken away so they couldn’t hurt her any more. “She didn’t know how to talk.” this shows that Kaila was very scared. Brian, told his wife about the little girl after he got back from the hospital. “She held my hand, and she was just this cute little thing.”

Months later, the adoption papers were complete. Kaila could live with the Kingman's abuse free, it was a safe environment for her. Kaila loves, dancing, playing, preschool and, animals. With Kaila’s new family, she is very happy. Till this day, she is still living safely with her new family.

By Maddie Oitice

The day after Christmas, Detroit cops noticed something off

At an abandoned house, a new dog mom was looking for food outside of 

the house when they went inside they saw two young puppies inside with one

Of them had their neck tied up in a mattress spring.

Around five PM, two Detroit officers got a call from nearby 

Neighbors that there was a dog roaming outside, they said she was

Not vicious but looking for food, they saw the dog just gave birth also they noticed 

She was really under weight. The officers gained her trust by giving her food 

“She was taking them from me, and finally was taking from my hand after 30 minutes she started to trust us a little more”

 When they went inside the house, they saw a brown little puppy laying on 

A beat up mattress” I used all my force to break it off his neck” the officers took them

 To a vet, they would not survived that night if they did not to save them that night. 

   “We’ve had, you know, a lot of amazing stories with our trained K-9s and stuff, but not for just a household pet to lead you down that road and play a role in saving some lives.” said by the chief of police of Vermont. "I wouldn’t have survived without Tinsley" says his owner.  What happened in Vermont that night was a miracle.

On August 18, 2018, a Swedish man called Leif Glissen made a heroic move in the Swedish town of Stockholm while on his morning walk as he was walking he saw a moose’s antlers in a tree's branches and immediately tried to think of something to save the distressed giant.

He took a nearby metal bar and quickly took cover behind a tree and was hitting the branches trying to cut and break the tangling vines and wood, in the end the 2-year-old moose got freed.

On January 4, 2022, at Colorado, Berthoud Bobby White and Josh Trujillo saved Apollo, a two-year-old Chesapeake Bay retriever, from an avalanche. The reason Apollo got covered by the avalanche is that Apollo jumped off the balcony into the snow, triggering an avalanche in which he got covered in. 

Bobby White and Josh Trujillo used probe poles, which are normally eight feet long. White said that finding the dog was like trying to find a “Needle in a haystack.” Apollo’s owner said that he ran away from him above a steep, rocky slope, triggering the avalanche.

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On December 9, 2023, a baby, Lord Moore, survived a tornado and was found unharmed in a “cradle of tree limbs” in Clarksville, Tennessee. He was 4 months old! Sydney Moore and her boyfriend were prepared for the tornado when it ripped off her roof and stole her child.

“I thought he was dead, I thought he was dead, and I would never see him again.” Lord's dad said after his son had been swept by the tornado. Lord's dad broke his arm and shoulder in the storm after trying to save him.

In late August 2021, a 3-year-old Pitbull mix, Russ. He went missing for 4 months after he ran away when he was camping in Lake Tahoe. He ran away because he wasn't leashed and got frightened by someone. When he was found, the people that found him brought him to the vet. The article said that he seemed completely healthy. A quote from Ruses owner is “After months of not hearing back from anyone, I assumed he was in good hands with a different owner, Rodriguez told CNN “I was hopeful that one day he would return”. When Russ was found, he was curled up in a ball covered in snow. On December 26 they were reunited. 

By Ty Griffith

The Airbus350 was a plane that crashed on January 2, 2024. Airbus350, The Japanese airline, crashed at 5:47PM at Tokyo Hanenda Airport. 379 people survived in the massive crash, only 11 people were injured. The plane did not crash on impact, it didn't crash in the air, it had already landed, and then it ran in to a crossing coast guard car and then the plane burst into flames. Sadly, 8 coast guards died. Not one person got off the plane with one of their carry on items, one person said “I heard an explosion about 10 minutes after everyone and I got off the plane,” 28-year-old passenger Tsubasa Sawada, told Reuters. “I can only say it was a miracle, we could have died if we were late.”

Before he got lost, a dog named Russ was camping with his owner and friends. Russ was a three-year-old Pitbull-mix dog. It was late August, and the group was camping near Lake Tahoe in California. Later on, Russ got scared by somebody and ran far away. Ricardo Rodriguez and his friends looked for Russ for hours, but then called the local shelters to report that he was missing. Rodriguez had to leave without his dog. “After months of not hearing back from anyone, I assumed he was in good hands with a different owner,” Rodriguez told CNN. This explains that although Rodriguez missed his dog, he had to let him go.

On December 16, 2021, a skier saw a small figure next to a tree near Twin Peaks, on the west side of South Lake Tahoe. The Animal Service Center couldn’t get the dog, so they called Wendy Jones, the founder and executive director of Tahoe PAWS and TLC. She sent Leona Allen and Elsa Gaule to go find Russ. Allen saw a set of tracks that led up to a tree. “I was halfway up the hill and I heard Leona start yelling,” Gaule said. “At first I wasn’t sure what she was yelling about, but then she said, “Elsa, I found him, and he’s alive!” After he was found, Russ was carried to the vet immediately and was said to be completely healthy. Rodriguez was told that they have found his dog and informed him about where Russ was, using a microchip. Finally, after four months, Russ and his owner had reunited with each other.

Lucy is an Australian Shepherd-Labrador mix, who was the first one to notice a fire burning the side of a country home across the street in Arlington, Washington State. It was Friday at 3:00 a.m. when Lucy woke up from sleeping to notice the fire. She went into her owner's room to alarm them of the fire, “Normally, I just yell at her to go to sleep, you know” said O’Conner. It was an unlikely bark, like screaming, but they could tell Lucy was trying to tell him something. O’Conner's wife went to go check on Lucy and saw the burning fire. With the fire across the street and Lucy’s alarming bark, the called 911 before it spread more! When the fire department came, they killed the fire. If Lucy wasn’t there and didn’t alert her owners, the fire would have spread to other buildings. Officers praised Lucy for her quick actions. “She’s just a good dog, She’s really one of a kind. I love her to death!,” O’Conner said.  

 According to Ali Paepke,” Dogs who have been locked up or pent up for so long can have behavior issues and can be hard to rehabilitate them”. But not for Neo, when the workers at the shelter tried to give love and attention Neo was not shy at all and embraced it. After the foster mom said that Neo was ready she had posted of Neo his story, a woman named Linda and immediately wanted to me Neo. When she finally met him, she said,” It was love at first sight”. After Linda played with Neo for a little bit, she made the big decision and adopted Neo.

                                     By Carson Miller

In Early December in, Utah, a mother and two children were run over by a car. The mom’s name was Bridgette and the two kids names were Ponson and Archer. The kids were two and three years old.  The mother and two kids were walking back to their car in the parking lot.  They were at a school called Layton Christian Academy. The driver who was partially by the sun.  The CEO tried to get as many students as possible.  A mob of high schoolers came running out of the building, trying to pull the car off the mom and two kids.

To get the car off the kids, it took the high school kids three minutes to get the car off the mother and two kids. A quote said by the CEO of the school is, “I ran back to the building to grab as many students as possible. The car was just on top of them and squishing them.”

These specially trained bloodhounds and beagles start at the age of 18 months since 2018. They do this to help stop poaching in South Africa’s national parks.  These dogs need the right geneticist, the right training, and, most importantly, the right mind set to bring it all together.  This guy named Braman grew up raising just these types of dogs with his dad; the father and son team would train groups of 15 dogs to follow the scent of animals. 

There has been a ten-fold increase in successful apprehensions of poachers thanks to the work of the k9 program.  They can track down the poachers way faster than a human.  The game changer has been the free tracking dogs, who are able to track so good that the best human trackers would lose spoor.  

It was early December when a mother, her two-year-old son, and her three-year-old daughter walked to their car through the Layton Christian Academy parking lot in Utah. Another woman, partially blinded by the winter sun, accidentally ran over the three people. The three-year-old daughter was able to escape, but her mother and brother remained trapped under the car. Soon after, a group of at least 20 students dropped everything to help save them.

“I hear all these commotions, people telling me, 'Come help, come help! ' So I drop my stuff and ran over,” sophomore Theo Roach told KSL TV. The mother only had to go to the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, thanks to the courageous and quick action of the student body. The children escaped with minor bruises and scrapes. If not for these young high school heroes, it might have been much worse. The mother and her children must have been so grateful that the students were there and were able to save them. It’s stories like these that make you realize just how responsible and incredible the younger generation of the world is.

A deer got its life saved by two firefighters. The deer was stuck on the ice, and the firefighters pushed it to safety. This was on December 2, 2023. It was in Minnesota, at Pike lake. It was the first time they have heard firefighters use curling, an Olympic sport.

This started when worried locals called the Prior lake fire department. They saw the deer’s legs sinking into the ice. The two firefighters used a curling technique. They used a Y-shaped pole to push the deer off the ice. It was incredible.

‘’It was struggling to get off thin ice. Firefighters put on their protective gear and carefully crawled across the ice. They were successfully able to push the deer to the shore.’’ 

That deer’s life was saved that day, and it was because of heroic firefighters.

On Sept 28 2023, at Pottawatomie zoo in India, a female golden retriever named Kassey loved her litter of 8 pups in even though 3 of the pups were African wild dogs whose mom got sick and had to abandon them. Their names are Red, Orange, and Blue, so none of the workers could get too attached to them.

Kassey was able to take care of them because of how she was pregnant recently and there is enough milk in her body to take care of them and breastfeed all 8 pups.

Although they experienced some difficulties because they were not with their own species, the pups are now 11 weeks old and thriving!

Mr O’Conner was going to yell at Lucy, but Lucy was had been barking a bark Mr O’Conner had never heard before, like a crying bark and a sharp one. Finally, he decided to come down and see what was up. When he made it downstairs, he saw half of their neighbors' workshop on fire! He quickly got his wife and called 911. The fire department got there as soon as possible. When they were done with the fire, they came over to see the hero, LUCY. If Lucy did not bark the fire could have got to the house and been a lot worse, thanks to Lucy every one was safe and the damage to the working shop was not bad at all.