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The Hopeful Dog

"I could just tell right away she was somebody's baby. She just didn't act like a stray dog to me," said Kathy Wilkes-Myers, who found the dog a few months ago. Ella was emaciated and drinking from a drainage ditch along an empty stretch of highway. Kathy says it's typical for people to dump unwanted pets in the middle of nowhere - but again, the dog's demeanor convinced her there was more to the story. So she did some detective work, and what she found is a heart-wrenching tale of unending loyalty.
"She was hoping her family could come back. But they couldn't. They couldn't come back. It just breaks your heart," said Kathy.
Kathy found the first clues to this mystery - broken glass and tail lights - right near where she found the dog.
And just down from there, she found a second set of even more intriguing clues: personal items gathered up. By the dog, she assumed. "It was like she was sleeping with them - or waiting with them," Kathy said.
She took a picture with her cell phone and then gathered the items. They were mostly random, personal things - toothbrush, comb, razor, a candle that said Michelle, but nothing that would explain anything - although now, she did have a hunch.
Kathy remembered two weeks earlier she'd driven by an accident on the same stretch of highway. She remembered because it was such a horrible crash. A single car had flipped over and landed on the side of the road, at just about the same spot where she found the dog.
Based on what she saw that day, Kathy figured there was no way a person could have survived, but what about a dog? So she called the highway patrol.
"She gave me the mom's name and the dad's name and the mom's name was Michelle. And I thought, 'Oh my God, this is their dog," she said.
Thrown from the car, rescue crews never saw the dog. She spent 13 days scavenging for food along the highway - and 13 nights bedding down with whatever she could find that smelled like her lost family.
"That's the last spot she saw her family and she was going to stay there," Kathy said.
Kathy figured it all out. But fortunately, she got one thing very wrong. Someone did survive the crash. In face, all five family members survived.
"I'm lucky to be sitting here with my family," said Joe Kelly, the family's father.
After two weeks believing that their dog, Ella, had died, the family of Joe and Michelle Kelly got the most wonderful, slobbery surprise of their lives.

For the first time since the accident, the Kelly's had a good reason to cry - all thanks to a dog who refused to forget her family - and the stranger who refused to take lost for answer.

Lucky, The Three Legged, One Eyed Cat

"Lucky, the three legged, one eyed cat (the founder of Animalkind, so to speak...) disappeared three years ago. One day he just was gone. Also there was a big fire across the street than and a lot of noise and commotion so we thought he got scared and hid for a while. He never came back.
I posted flyer's for him, talked to the Waste Management if they saw him by the side of the road, posted him with the Humane Society and police and even called a pet psychic. I wandered the neighborhood with a flashlight for weeks, checking basements, thinking he may fell into something and couldn't get out, but no sight of him. I truly believed he was with the angels, also it always stirred me up not knowing what happened to him.

Three years later...

One of the artists who generously donate to our annual fundraiser "Art for Animals," Edward Avedisian, came to our adoption center to bring his artwork over. When we showed him all the beautiful rescues we home in our adoption center, he started talking about his cats and his love for them.
Lucky responded immediately! When I called him, he came and purred, rubbed his head and couldn't get enough attention-we both were sooo happy to see each other!
Edward was so kind and allow me to take Lucky home at last!
When he came home, he recognized all his old friends!! He kissed the dog and his furry friends and doesn't stop purring and dancing! He also doesn't leave the velvet pillow on the king size bed! Lucky truly lives up to his name!"

One Lucky Pig

"A giant farm dog and a tiny piglet cuddle up as if they were family after the baby runt was dismissed by its own mother.
Surrogate mum Katjinga, an eight-year-old Rhodesian Ridgeback, took on motherly duties for grunter Paulinchen - a tiny pot-bellied pig - and seems to be taking the adoption in her stride.
Lonely Paulinchen was luckily discovered moments from death and placed in the care of the dog who gladly accepted it as one of her own. Thankfully for the two-week old mini porker, Katjinga fell in love with her at first sight and saved her bacon.
And the unlikely relationship has made the wrinkly piggy a genuine sausage dog. In these adorable images Paulinchen can even be seen trying to suckle from her gigantic new mum.
The two animals live together on a huge 20-acre farm in Hoerstel, Germany, where Katjinga's owners Roland Adam, 54, and his wife Edit, 44, a bank worker, keep a pair of breeding Vietnamese pigs.
Property developer Roland found the weak and struggling piglet after she was abandoned by the rest of her family one evening after she was born.
He said: "The pigs run wild on our land and the sow had given birth to a litter of five in our forest.
"I found Paulinchen all alone and when I lifted her up she was really cold.
"I felt sure some local foxes would have taken the little pig that very night so I took it into my house and gave her to Katjinga.
"She had just finished with a litter of her own, who are now 10 months, so I thought there was a chance she might take on the duties of looking after her.
"Katjinga is the best mother you can imagine. She immediately fell in love with the piggy. Straight away she started to clean it like it was one of her own puppies.
"Days later she started lactating again and giving milk for the piggy. She obviously regards it now as her own baby."

Mum of the year? Quite possibly."

The Brave Rat

"The little rat - thought to be only two to three months old - was spotted scampering into the leopard's enclosure shortly after feeding time at the Santiago Rare Leopard Project, in Hertfordshire.
So intent was the plucky rodent on its mission to snatch a tasty snack, that it seemed not to notice that its path was taking it within a whisker's breadth of 12-year-old Sheena.
Clutching a corner of raw meat with its tiny paws, the rat busily tucked in, until it sensed one of those whiskers moving in.
Sheena, bemused by the interloper coming between her and the remains of dinner, padded over on paws big enough to wreak vengeance with a single swipe.
But rather than giving the thief at very least the hearty set down it deserved, she gingerly lowered her nose for an exploratory sniff.
Rattus paused, lifted its dainty pink claws in submission, then - obviously deciding on a nothing-ventured-nothing-gained approach - continued to tuck in.
And after another tentative investigation, Sheena gave the leopard equivalent of a shrug and turned away.
But even a gentle shove does not deter the little creature from getting his fill so the mouse continued to eat the leopard's lunch and show the leopard who was boss."

Parrot Kept Alive By Birds

Animal rescuers say a cockatoo rescued from a tree last night had been kept alive for two weeks by his fellow feathered friends.
A rescue team was called to Kilsyth east of Melbourne overnight to rescue the sulphur-crested cockatoo.
The parrot had been caught in a gum tree after its leg became entangled in netting.
Animal rescuer, Nigel Williamson says he believes the cockatoo had been trapped in the tree for two weeks and was kept alive by other birds.
"It's been amazing how the other birds have come along and they've been obviously feeding it and keeping it going," he said.
He says although traumatised and skinny, the cocky is on the road to recovery.
Local, Helen Johns said she had noticed a "white object" in the tree.
"I kept an eye on it every now and again as I drove past not realising that it was a live bird and then I saw other birds feeding it, thought it must've been trapped," she said.