Tag Archives: rescue

Astro is a horse with a wonderful, loving owner in Melbourne, Australia. The steed is 18 years old and was trotting around on the beach with his owner Nicole Graham, her daughter, and the daughter’s horse one day, when something unexpected and terrible happened. Astro ended up stuck in mud with his …

In India’s Gujarat State, there exists a single population of a lion subspecies called the Asiatic lion. With only 411 animals currently alive on the entire planet, this type of lion — often simply called the Indian lion — is considered endangered and was once on the verge of extinction. Suffice to …

22-year-old Thomas Paterson is a riverboarder from Oakville, Ontario, Canada, but mainly he’s a hero! Recently, he was riverboarding down some fairly violent river rapids in Ottawa, Canada, when he came across a squirrel stuck amidst them on a piece of rock. There was no way this tiny little squirrel was getting …

A few weeks ago, the people at Wildlife Aid in the United Kingdom received a call about an injured fox stuck in a hedge. Wildlife rescuer Simon Cowell got a ride to the scene from his wife, because he’d had a couple drinks already, where he met up with the man …

Don Dunbar is a Canadian fisherman. One day, he was out fishing and having a jolly good time in the waters of Nanoose Bay — located in British Columbia, Canada — when he came across a bald eagle fledgling floating around in the water. Bald eagles don’t generally enjoy swimming, so the …

This all went down in Fresno, California a day or two ago. Somehow, a house caught on fire and an older man was still trapped inside. 911 had been called and firefighters were on their way, but they would’ve been too late to rescue the man, so clearly a hero …

Whether you understand the reasoning behind being a hunter for sport or not, what these hunters did when they found a helpless young deer stuck in a sinkhole is truly amazing. To many people, hunting isn’t just a sport but also a reason to preserve wildlife. These men are ethical …

After falling  into a pool of hot tar that engulfed his body and had became rock-solid, this dog had no choice but to remain on the ground and wait for a slow and painful death. Luckily a person walking by saw him struggling to stay alive and called an animal …