Maeve Dunigan

Meet Atlas, a spirited gray rescue cat with an unlikely best friend.

Huddled on a cardinal marker platform in the middle of a lake, a fluffy animal recently found himself with nowhere to go. The marooned little guy looked across the expanse and saw Montague Point, part of Raymond Island in Victoria, Australia, in the distance. He needed to get there — but how?

When a car owner in Currumbin Valley, Australia, recently noticed a large animal slipping inside their vehicle, the worried onlooker knew they’d need some expert help.

Last year, a beachgoer was walking down Cleethorpes Beach in England when they spotted an odd shape on the sand up ahead.

In the Mulga woodlands outside of Queensland, Australia, a fuzzy animal recently wandered in front of a watchful lens planted by researchers with the Australian Wildlife Conservancy’s (AWC) Bowra Wildlife Sanctuary.

This past October, staff members at Adams County Pet Rescue in Othello, Washington, were met with a heartbreaking surprise when they noticed a cardboard box abandoned on the sidewalk near the rescue center.

“She just ran out towards us like, ‘Hey! Could you help me?’”

All alone, a gray kitten named Baby recently found herself huddled in a suburban garden. She was hungry, frightened, and too small to fend for herself. But Baby's luck was about to change.

The members of the Missouri Stream Teams cleanup crew in Jefferson City know all about finding treasures in the trash. Over the years, they’ve uncovered everything from mannequins to money. But this past March, team members parsing through a cleanup site discovered something that stopped them in their tracks.

Recently, a man named Ray was out shopping at Dollar General when he noticed someone tiny and lost out of the corner of his eye.