There are those days when getting up and going to work is rough. For our dogs, it can be just as hard when we leave and they have to go into their kennels…

Mocha was missing for three weeks when a stranger came to his rescue. Mocha had become caught on a guardrail along Route 78 in New Jersey when Ryan Muentnich pulled over to help. Muentnich not only rescued Mocha from the guard rail but reunited the dog with its family.

Last month the brave firefighters of Wellesley Fire Department saved the life of Crosby, a Golden Retriever that had fallen into the icy Charles River. Yesterday Ellen DeGeneres honored and thanked those firefighters on her talk show.

An animal control officer in Atlanta, Georgia saved the life of a dog that was left abandoned in a creek. The water level was high due to recent heavy rains and the dog was struggling to keep his head above water when the officer came to his rescue.

Therapy dogs help people in many different walks of life. A funeral home in Clinton, Arkansas recognized the comfort and benefit of therapy dogs and is training one to help the grieving families they serve.

Nolan Woolfolk was driving in Phoenix when he spotted a duplex on fire. He heard barking inside, and broke through a window to rescue a dog that was stuck in its crate.

When Lesley Hailwood began choking on a chocolate New Year’s Eve her dog Nell came to the rescue and pounced on her chest. Nell’s quick action saved Hailwood’s life.

When two intruders broke into a Brentwood, Pennsylvania home in the middle of the night the family’s dog came to their rescue.

While working on his new movie The Legend of Hercules actor Kellan Lutz put in some time and money to help the stray dogs of Bulgaria. He raised more than $200,000 for a local no-kill shelter there.