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Twist in the Tale as Fox Cub Is Rescued By a 'Canine Hero'
Offbeat  (tags: fox cub trapped, elderly dog, hero, rescued, saved fox cub, owner, walking )

Simone
- 2 days ago - scotsman.com
A FOX cub trapped inside an overflow pipe was rescued when a "canine hero" alerted his owner to its plight. Rover, an 11-year-old collie-labrador cross, sniffed out the cub while on a walk with owner Steven Miller in the grounds .
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Fun-Loving Fox Cubs Getting Into All Sorts of Bother! VIDEO!
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, protection, wildlife, foxes, rescued )

Cher
- 3 days ago - rspca.org.uk
Our officers have come to the rescue of a number of fun-loving fox cubs this month that have found themselves in dangerous predicaments trapped underground
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Alice and Charlee - From a Dumpster to Paradise
Offbeat  (tags: beautiful cats, abandoned dumped, charlee, alice, sanctuary, rescued )

Simone
- 10 days ago - all-creatures.org
Charlee was six months old and pregnant when she was disposed of in a garbage dumpster beside a California restaurant in 1989. She gave birth to a litter of kittens Inside the dumpster, one of whom survived.
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Elsie's Story
Offbeat  (tags: road accident, elsie, rescued, sanctuary, recovering, loved )

Simone
- 11 days ago - all-creatures.org
A man in a pick-up truck on a Washington highway was carrying a crate with piglets. He slammed on his brakes, the crate broke open and as he made a sharp turn each piglet fell out onto the highway to be hit by cars and killed. All but one,and she is Elsie
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Fox Cub Gets in a Bit of a Tangle
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, protection, wildlife, rescued )

Cher
- 14 days ago - rspca.org.uk
This poor fox cub needed a helping hand recently after becoming entangled in brambles in a cemetery in Sketty, South Wales.
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A Difficult Position: How People Decided the Fate of a Mt. Lion Cub
Offbeat  (tags: controversy, mountain lion cub, rescued, found, officals, euthanized, outrage )

Simone
- 14 days ago - helenavigilante.com
Just before Memorial Day weekend 2011, a group of U.S. Forest Service employees was finishing a training session in the Lubrecht Experimental Forest outside Missoula when some of them found a brush-covered depression in the ground a tiny mountain lion cub
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Dog Living Under a School With a Terrible Infection Is Rescued- VIDEO
Offbeat  (tags: dog, found under school, flesh eating infection, rescued, safe, recovering )

Simone
- 15 days ago - godvine.com
This includes a BEAUTIFUL update on this dog at the end! The flesh-eating infection she had would've killed her for sure, but thank God she was rescued and shown the love she deserves. This is great.
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Tangled Owl 'Playing Dead' Rescued From Tree
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, protection, wildlife, rescued )

Cher
- 16 days ago - rspca.org.uk
An owl was rescued by our inspectorate after it got tangled in fishing line and was left hanging precariously from a tree.
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Leopard Cat Recovering Well After Being Rescued
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, protection, wildlife, rescued )

Cher
- 16 days ago - taipeitimes.com
A leopard cat found last month in Miaoli County's Gongguan Township is recovering from injuries and dehydration, the Miaoli County Unique Animals Preservation Association said yesterday.
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Brave Stranger in Black Boots Rescues Neglected Dog
Offbeat  (tags: big dog, abused, mistreated shot, rescued, safe, home adopted )

Simone
- 18 days ago - care2.com
I was four and half when things began to go awry. Hearing the tension escalating in the house made me nervous. Mom left and shortly after so did my dad. The sun was setting bringing a chill in the air. Serenity took me over and I fell into a deep slumber.
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1000+ Italian Activists Liberate Beagle Puppies in Daylight Raid
Offbeat  (tags: animal activists, rescued, beagle puppies, vivisection labratory )

Simone
- 22 days ago - all-creatures.org
On April 28th, World Day for Animals in Laboratories, Italian animal liberation activists staged a daylight raid of the Green Hill Breeders complex in Northern Italy, freeing 25 to 40 beagles in the process.
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Tiny Puppy Dumped in Dog Waste Bin
Offbeat  (tags: animals, dogs, puppy, rescued, protection, pets )

Cher
- 24 days ago - rspca.org.uk
A tiny puppy, who was only a few weeks old, was heartlessly dumped in a bin meant to be used for dog waste. Thankfully little Georgie, as she has since been named, was found by a concerned family who heard a noise coming from the bin.
46 comments
Humpback Whale Shows Amazing Appreciation After Being Saved- VIDEO
Offbeat  (tags: humpback whale, trapped, tangled, rescued, appreciated, thanking )

Simone
- 27 days ago - godvine.com
Caught in a huge amount of nets, this humpback whale was completely trapped. But these people on their boat took matters into their own hands and freed it, saving its life.
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Romanian Bear Sanctuary: Rescuing Bears From Cruelty   video
Offbeat  (tags: romania, bears, abused, tortured, chained, rescued, safe, sanctuary )

Simone
- 27 days ago - youtube.com
When we found Max, he was chained to an iron fence on a Romanian roadside. During the day, tourists took photos of him. And every night, after the last of the tourists had gone, he was forced back into a tiny cage, where he was thrown scraps of food.
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Injured Iranian Cat Brought To San Francisco For Treatment
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, cats, rescued, U.S, Iran, interesting )

Raymond
- 28 days ago - sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
Although the U.S. and Iran are at odds politically, a partnership between animal care groups in the two countries helped to save a cat found seriously injured in the Iranian capital of Tehran by sending it to San Francisco for treatment.
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