Ace, a black cocker spaniel, was given only a few weeks to live about a month ago when a tumor was found in his mouth. His fight to live saved his owner’s life when a fire broke out in their home. If Ace hadn’t been there, Matt Viola might not have woken up in time.

Meela is a border collie that needed a second chance. Her severe behavioral problems made her un-adoptable. A second chance came by spending some time in jail. Meela spent months living with and being trained by an Idaho prisoner.

Last week when several tornadoes ripped through Granbury, Texas Jerry Shuttlesworth grabbed his dog Junior and hoped for the best.

A Christmas Eve accident with a UPS truck left Bailey, an American Eskimo dog, with a badly injured leg that he would eventually lose. He only lost his leg though thanks to the use of a life-saving vacuum that is often used on injured soldiers in Afghanistan.

Marine Sgt. Ross Gundlach developed a special bond with his bomb-sniffing partner Casey while deployed in Afghanistan. A bond so strong that Gundlach made a promise to do whatever it took to find her if they both made it out of Afghanistan alive.

Last Friday night seventeen puppies and a female dog assumed to be the mother of about half of those puppies were abandoned in a wooded area near the Indiana Dunes State Park. Now all seventeen puppies have families lined up take them home and the mother dog is safe in a foster home.

On Monday Colorado not only signed into law legislation that requires police to undergo training to prevent animals from being shot, it became the 12th state to designate an official state pet. The previous states to select a state pet have selected a specific breed, but Colorado chose shelter dogs and cats as their official state pets.

One attendee of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign graduation ceremony garnered a lot of attention with his cap and gown. Hero is a service dog and a picture of him and his owner receiving their master’s degree went viral over the weekend.

When Animal Control in Anderson, South Carolina received a call on Monday morning about a barking dog what they found was something special. The dog wasn’t alone; she was caring for and nursing a small kitten that she likely saved from a nearby ravine.