Animal Stories

When Tom Larson adopted Oliver from the county shelter three years ago, the tabby cat was eight months old, underweight, and so skittish that he spent his first two weeks behind the washing machine. Tom — a 58-year-old electrician from Boise, Idaho — left food near the machine, spoke quietly when he was in the … Read more

When the call came in, the firefighters of Station 12 in Portland, Oregon, assumed it would be a routine animal rescue. A dog had fallen into a storm drain near the edge of Riverside Park — probably scared, probably stuck, probably easy enough to get out. But when Lieutenant Marco Reyes and his crew arrived … Read more