Dozer, a three-year-old pit bull, was stolen from the Atteboro Animal Shelter in Massachusetts on Friday night. Dozer has been a resident of the shelter for 14 months. The shelter volunteers spent all weekend posting fliers all over southeastern Massachusetts and into Rhode Island, searching for the beloved dog. On Sunday morning Dozer was found and shelter volunteers went and picked him up in Providence, Rhode Island.

Anthony Ortolani left his 5-year-old German Shepherd/Rottweiler mix, Missy, behind at 13,000 feet when he was hiking between Mount Bierstadt and Mount Evans in Colorado. Missy survived for 8 days before being rescued by a group of volunteer rescuers. Ortalani has agreed to give Missy to one of the rescuers

In 2010 Beth Cole’s Bichon Namme went missing when a gate was left open at her home in Colorado Springs. Just last week someone saw a stray dog walking the streets in Ionia, Michigan and alerted a police officer who took the stray to the Ionia County Animal Shelter. The shelter scanned the dirty, underweight stray for a microchip and Beth Cole’s contact information came up.

Earlier this year firefighters in Haines City, Florida found a two year old American Staffordshire terrier tied to a tree. She was wearing a muzzle and had been left with no food or water.

A 5-year-old Belgian Malinois name Rogue is being called a “wonder dog” by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency. Rogue works with CBP to search parcels at the Chicago International Mail Branch near O’Hare International Airport.

T’Chen, a dog who was lost in Hurricane Isaac, is currently being taken care of by the Humane Society Animal Shelter in Geneseo, Illinois. T’Chen was rescued in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Thanks to the help of Facebook T’Chen’s owner has been located, now she needs help getting back to her home in Baton Rouge.

A bill that would raise the penalty for certain animal cruelty offenses in New Jersey was approved by The Senate Economic Growth Committee on Thursday. This is the first step for the bill to become a law. Known as “Patrick’s Law”, the bill is named for the Pit Bull that inspired it.

This ‘dogs in boots’ compilation video show that sometimes the best of intentions have hilariously unexpected results. These people surely just wanted to protect their dogs’ feet from the cold, the ice, road salt, hot tar, etc.

Railroad workers in Albany, NY came across three 3-week-old Pit Bull puppies that appeared to have been intentionally nailed to the tracks. The puppies were severely dehydrated and malnourished.