Tell me a wonderful rescue story of an animal that would have died without you?

Question

In my life i have rescued many dogs, I have many stories, but one always stands out. Napoleon the Alaskan Husky (Note: Alaskan Huskies are NOT Siberian Huskies).
As an animal control officer you always have one dog that is your arch enemy. This dog was so wise and cleaver he would evade me and his owners at all costs. He could escape any fence, and chain, and any restraint. The owners and I would do everything but he could never be caught and eventually he would just head home when he was done frolicking. He was a pain in the butt outside of his home, but in it he was sweet, loving, and well mannered. His owners did all they could to be good owners and we never gave them a hard time. They had rescued Napoleon and his littermates from being buried alive by a owner/breeder that didnt want the extra dogs. One day he dissapeared, the owners called frantic he didnt come home as usual, the weeks went by and only a few sightings and tips came in, 3 months were gone and the owners gave..

up. I lived 25 miles from the owner, and one day I was walking my highly dog aggresive Dalmation Foster dog about 2 miles from home. Out of the bush a ghost of a dog appeared. It was Napoleon, he was a former shadow of himself, all bones, and his back leg shredded and useless. I knew if I went to him he would run. So I sat down and called him over. He came and my Dal, didnt even bark or growl, he went to Napolean and kissed his face. He wouldnt let me carry him so he made the 2 mile walk home alongside my Dal, then as we neared my house he colapsed. I gathered him up and rushed him in. Calling his owners who couldnt believe it. We rushed him together to the U of Minnesota. Afer hours of surgery, he lost his leg but not his life. They also found he'd been hit by a car, Shot 3 times, and trapped in a steel jaw trap. He fought long and hard, after 3 months of Physical therapy and loads of bills. He recovered and never left his yard again!!! What a dog!

Answer 1

Okay. About 28 years ago I was working at a place that had a fence around the whole property. The owner had an old car, junker at the back of the lot. In good weather I used to go to the back of the lot beyond the junker to sit under a tree to have my lunch. One day I noticed movement under the junker. Checking it out it was a pup. I called to it but it would not come out from under the car so I tossed my sandwich under and went back inside. The next day I went out and looked for the pup. It was there and was watching me from the under the car, still would not come out. I had brought an extra sandwich and tossed it to the pup. It wouldn't come out and get it till I left. That evening I bought a few cans of dog food. I started giving the dog a dish of food and talking to it from under the tree while I ate. The pup got to where she'd come out and eat as long as I sat still. After feeding her for a little over a week she started coming to me when I called. She was so thin she wasn't as thick as my hand from palm to back. When she walked her back end kept falling over. I thought she was injured or crippled. Turned out she was just weak from not eating for who knows how long. After she ate for two weeks she could walk okay. I decided to take her home. She was obviously blind in one eye but that didn't seem to slow her down. The day I took her home we stopped of at a vet first because I had kids and a cat and didn't want to take home diseases or anything. The vet examined her. She was malnurished still and still thin though not quite as thin. She had been physically abused. But he said she was healthy despite it all. Living with her it became obvious she had been beat with brooms & mops and burned with cigarettes. She ate good, gained weight. She was fearful for a long time. If any picked up a pack of cigarettes she ran and hid, same if you tried to sweep a floor. Eventually she overcame her fears and trusted us. She was one of the most friendly and loving dogs I ever had. I had her for almost 17 tears before I lost her, She was the Sunshine of my life. I will forever miss her.

Answer 2

My dog was adopted by people at 4 weeks old and taken away from her mother. A guy got her for his girlfriend, the broke up within two weeks of getting the puppy, the girlfriend left and the guy wanted to stiff his landlord on the rent so he moved out of the apartment and left town. When the landlord checked the Apt 3 days later the Puppy was locked in the kitchen with no food or water. I saw this puppy after she was removed from the apt and fell instantly in love with her and brought her home she was 6 weeks old and a pit bull. I have had her for 7 years as of the 5 th of February and she is the greatest dog anyone could ever want, the people that know her say she isn't a dog she is human she is so good! And that's my story!

Answer 3

I am a bus driver and about 2 years ago I was the aide on the bus but the bus driver at the time also loves animals, but one day we kept going by this house there was a rottie with her pups, it was in the ghetto and the rottie was a very approachable watch dog.... well we noticed the rottie was on the front porch, on a 1 ft. leash, no water, no food, and it was summer, the next day it looked like they may have had food and water but there wasn't any around.... so from that day on we would stop and feed and water the rottie and her pups, and everyday they would line up sitting in a row on the porch waiting for the bus..... after 2 days we called the dog warden and we were told these ppl have been warned and we told him the condition was awful there....so i couldn't take it after 4 days of this, the owners took the rottie but the puppies were still there so i contacted the warden and they said they would come and get the pups that day and the one puppy was the oddest of them all, so I went after my run had dog food in my back seat, coaxed the puppy to my car he knocked it all over, ate the food and I forgot I had the window open on the driver side, and the pup jumped out the window I went chasing after him and he went straight back to the porch, and I did get him and felt so bad I couldnt take the others, but I was pretty sure the warden would be there soon, he came home with me and his name is Armani, he is so smart but he does have some things that I think he acquired on the streets like guarding the garbage.... lol its ok still love him to death.....

Answer 4

I was driving along early one morning and seen a bird dog laying in the ditch, I really believed this was another tragic incident that a poor dog was hit.
I drove back by the same spot 15 minutes later and to my surprise the same dog was standing in the middle of the highway stopping traffic because she would not move out of the way. She was pathetic looking so skinny and so alone and lost. I had to try and find a spot to pull over as i had cars behind me. I yelled for this dog to come toward me so the traffic on the other side to go safely without hitting the dog.
She came behind me following. I pulled over into a driveway and a small pickup came up behind her and rammed her in the butt with his bumper, the dog fell, then got back to her feet. I was walking toward her, the same guy did it to her again, I am yelling at him to go around and leave her alone, he did it again. I got ahold of her and got her out of the road. Luckily she was only bruised and exhausted. The mean B*****d that was doing this just laughed as he drove past. If i had a rock, i honestly would of thrown it through his window.
She just layed in my back seat the whole way home. The next morning she had 5 puppies and this dog did not even look pregnant she was so malnourished she was just bones. Sadly all the puppies died at birth but i feel that if i had not been there the B*****d that was bumping her with his bumper would have just gone ahead and killed her.

Answer 5

That is a good question, that I don't have a good answer to, and neither does anyone else as far as I can see. Why would a president want his ambassador, that he chose, to die in that way? What would be his motivation? The best answer I can come up with is an error in judgment, not an intentional act to rid the world of the ambassador.

Answer 6

That is an incredible story!

It's wonderful and heart warming to know there are still people with hearts and caring souls who will take care of something or someone other than themselves.