Lakeisha Ethans

Human kindness is a miraculous thing and the effects of one single act can be boundless. Last week, in North Carolina, someone donated $5,000 to the Forsyth Humane Society to sponsor every pet in the shelter’s adoption. The volunteers at the shelter were shocked when they heard the news and so was the community. The next day, a crowd of people waited outside the shelter doors to take home a homeless pet and give it a forever home. Continue reading this post on the Next Page!

Some dog breeders have given all breeders bad names. Sugarplum and her sister belonged to one such breeder in New York City who posted a picture of the dogs in a craigslist sales ad. Apparently, they didn’t want to breed her anymore. Jackie O’Sullivan, cofounder of Rescue Dogs Rock NYC, received the ad sent by a friend and knew she had to help because she could tell the dogs weren’t in good shape. Continue reading this post on the Next Page…

Trauma is not something you can just get over overnight. It can change the makeup of a brain and be extremely hard to overcome. For some of the dogs being rescued for South Korea’s dog meat markets, this is all too apparent. Many dogs have been known to completely freeze up when arriving in their new, safe environments out of distrust and fear. After living with all human contact being bad contact, how can they trust any person? Surely any good home will turn bad. Continue reading this post on the Next Page

Kenji and Sophia grew up together in a dog meat farm in South Korea. They spent all of their time together being bred, and comforting one another while in the terrible environment. When they finally got the chance to be rescued, they weren’t sad about leaving their horrible home in search of a happy one. Jindo Love rescued the dogs from South Korea and brought them to America. Kenji was taken in my Sweet Paws Rescue where he was soon adopted by Lindsay Goldstein. Continue reading this post on the Next Page…

Noni Boen gets sad text messages and pictures of abandoned animals that tug on her heartstrings every day. And she always answers them. Noni works with several rescues in the San Bernardino, California area and they call her when the dumped-off animals are too young, old, sick, or helpless to be left in a shelter. Noni is on the front lines caring for these animals constantly until she can find them foster homes. Tuesday morning, Noni received a picture that was different from all of the rest and featured Sunny, a seven-week-old Chihuahua who was still wearing a knitted sweater from his previous owner. Continue reading this post on the Next Page

Back in 2014 in Louisville, Kentucky a thunderstorm raged outside of Tara King’s apartment complex. She luckily happened across a little white dog who clearly needed help. Besides being out in the storm alone, he only weighed four pounds and had a big wound on the side of his head. King took the dog inside, bathed him, and he slept with her that night. The next day, she took him to the shelter to see if he had a microchip, but he didn’t and there were no reports of a missing dog so King named him Winston and decided to keep him. Continue reading this story on the Next Page…