Animals

Bruno Jelović found more than 1,100 dogs living in mud in a Bosnian city shelter. He left his life in Switzerland behind and built huge ranches where rescued dogs can finally run free.

After a trip to the bank, Noemi Moreno was knocked down by two masked attackers trying to take her purse. Then Rambo, her mother-in-law's pit bull, charged at them and they fled.

Louisville police searched on foot, by drone and by helicopter for a missing 3-year-old boy. Then a dog nobody recognized started barking at an officer and led him straight to the child.

Little Boden Allen wandered about seven miles from his Arizona home and spent the night under a tree. The next morning, a rancher found him standing at the end of his driveway with his guardian dog, Buford.

In Philadelphia, a passerby heard a little dog crying by the road. Thanks to a neighborhood Facebook group, a rescuer and a team of vets, the dog they named Rocky is fighting his way back.

Atlas loves a good hike, until he doesn't. On a hot afternoon near Albuquerque, the 130-pound dog was too tired to go on, and sheriff's deputies spent nearly five hours carrying him down.

A Leawood, Kansas police officer spotted a small dog on a leash barking in the road with no owner in sight. He followed it home and found its owner on the garage floor, unable to get up for hours.

Live on Chilean TV, firefighters and police spent hours trying to save Morocho, a stray dog trapped in a flooded river in Santiago. In the end, the little fighter found his own way out.

At a free adoption event in Arizona, every kennel emptied except one. Lucky, a matted senior poodle, didn't get a single visitor. Then the shelter shared his picture.

Courtney Short thought she would never see her dog Lilly again. Five years and 900 miles later, a tiny microchip and one small rescue changed everything.