When Amanda Pierce died in 2013 after a car accident, her heart was given to Garret Leopold. Garret had a congenital defect called hypoplastic left heart syndrome that caused the left side of his heart not to develop properly. Amanda’s mother, Laurie said in an interview that he daughter was beautiful and loving. Four years …
The United States has approximately 7 million animals that are living in shelters. How they ended up in the shelter varies. Some animals were found as strays, and many others were abandoned there by their owners. Atago arrived at a high-kill shelter in Texas, and he was in terrible shape. Not only did Atago have …
More bad press for the big box store Walmart? Read on, and you decide. Frank Swanson used to work at Walmart in Missouri, but he was fired. The reason Swanson was fired has caused a social media uproar – are you ready for the reason? Swanson hugged the customers and helped them get good deals. …
If people get sick, we can go see the doctor. The doctor figures out what is wrong with you and gives you some medicine, and then you get better. But if you are a wild animal and you get sick, your future can look very grim. If you are an animal that is mistreated by …
Do you have a dress code or policy about what you can and can’t wear at work? Most businesses have some guidelines or expectations for what their employees wear. While you are at work, you are a representative of the company and need to project a certain image. Joey Barge, 20, lives in Buckinghamshire, UK …
While going to work lately, commuters in Seattle noticed a dog getting on the bus by herself. The three-year-old Labrador/Mastiff mix named Eclipse sort of became famous there for riding the bus on a daily basis! She is known as Seattle’s Bus Riding Dog and has a fan club of “Ecliptomaniacs”! Eclipse is also the …
There were more than 800 dogs crammed onto a truck with barely enough room to breathe. The small wire cages were all stacked on top of each other, and the truck was heading to a slaughterhouse in Guangzhou, China. Peter Li, a Chinese policy expert for the Humane Society International (HIS), said that this shipment …
A man heard a thumping sound coming out of a dumpster, so he looked inside. There was a large cardboard box with duct tape all around it – the thumping noise was coming from inside the box. The man opened the box and found a dog inside – the image below is graphic and disturbing. …
Charlotte is 73-years old and has been working at a McDonald’s in Blackwell, Oklahoma for 13 years. Charlotte had a stroke and lost the used of one side of her body. But that doesn’t stop her from doing her job. One customer, Nada Seyam, noticed how efficient and quick Charlotte was at doing her job …
Karen Rodas and Paul Rybkin had a baby in 2013 that died when he was just 36-hours old. Their son, Nathanial had a rare disease called PKD, which can cause liver and kidney failure. Paul and Karen are both carriers for PKD, which meant they could pass on the disease to any children they conceived …