Maeve Dunigan

Earlier this month, a homeowner in Rockland County, New York, began noticing a tiny visitor scratching at their front door.

Huddled in a snow-covered garbage dump in La Loche, a village in Saskatchewan, Canada, a group of four puppy siblings struggled to survive.

At Bay View Park in Bay View, Washington, animals like sea lions, crabs and river otters flourish in the coastal ecosystem they call home. Here in this lush habitat, quick-moving tides often reveal expansive mud flats, occasionally surprising sea animals, leaving them stranded on the shore.

Recently, an employee at Northern Midlands Irrigation Scheme, a water infrastructure network in Tasmania, Australia, entered his site office and noticed a little ball of fuzz hanging from an informational poster.

This past March, a woman named Beverly was driving through a spring snowstorm in Hayward, Wisconsin, carefully navigating the icy roadway, when she noticed a beautiful bird collide with a truck up ahead.

Alone in a ditch in Houston, Texas, a little dog named Mica cowered on a pink blanket. The dirty scrap of cloth was Mica’s only source of comfort, a thin boundary protecting her from the mud and sharp twigs surrounding her on all sides.

Every day, team members at Furry Friends Humane, a nonprofit rescue in Jupiter, Florida, take shelter dogs outside for walks around their West Palm Beach facility. Recently, on one such outing, the rescuers noticed something “ heartbreaking.”

Jennifer Pond drives down Dowdy Ferry Road almost every day on her way to work as a high school teacher in Dallas, Texas. Over the years, Pond, who’s also the founder of Pond of Love, a nonprofit animal rescue, has learned to be hyper-vigilant on this street.

Meet Hopper: a resilient dog who will do anything to protect the ones she loves.

This past April, Long Island, New York, animal rescuer Karenlynn Stracher received a call from a local veterinarian's office about a large bird struggling in their parking lot. Stracher didn’t hesitate and jumped in her car.