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  When Snoots arrived at   Austin Pets Alive! (APA!) , it seemed like he was barely clinging to life. “He was unresponsive, and the shelter staff thought they might have been too late,” Luis Sanchez, director of public relations and communications at APA!, told  Austin Pets Alive! Despite his odds, the shelter staff cared for Snoots like any other patient. They fed him dinner, gave him top-notch vet care and treated him with medications to help him heal. Above all, they showed him love. He was put into a kennel for a good night’s rest. The next day, Snoots had somehow come back to life. Austin Pets Alive! “He greeted the shelter's vets the next morning at his kennel door, looking like a real dog again,” Sanchez said. Snoots was at death’s door, but after receiving so much love from the APA! staff, he decided he wasn’t ready to go yet, because now he had something to fight for. Austin Pets Alive! Snoots is 12 years old and weighs only 5 pounds. Even with his comeback, the ...

  When Hayden Kristal brought Bitsy home five years ago, her dad, Steve, had some concerns. He worried about what kind of life the 5-week-old   deaf and blind puppy   would have, and whether she’d be able to get around on her own. But Steve’s fears were erased as soon as he met the energetic, happy-go-lucky dog. Facebook/Hayden Kristal “She has been her own woman since day one,” Kristal told The Dodo. “The first thing she did when I brought her home was to make a beeline for the food dish, crawl into it and eat until she passed out.” Bitsy is far from the helpless dog her grandpa imagined. She’s traveled all over the country with her mom —  hiking, canoeing, riding the subway and even skateboarding.  “Bitsy  is the sweetest, friendliest, most loving and loyal dog in the world,” Kristal said. “She is bold and sassy and she loves adventure!”  Facebook/Hayden Kristal Kristal’s dad loves his granddog more than he could’ve ever imagined, and ...

  Late one evening, volunteer rescuer Arturo Flores received a call for help that nearly catapulted him out of bed. The caller reported finding an adult poodle mix tied to a railing in the middle of a dark alleyway, and there was an open cardboard box next to her with two tiny souls left behind. When Flores arrived at the scene moments later, his heart dropped. The poodle’s two little puppies, who’d been left in the box, were circling her as she lay defeated on the ground. "[She] was tied so tightly to a railing that you couldn’t even slip two fingers under the leash around her neck," Suzette Hall, founder of Logan’s Legacy 29, wrote on Facebook. “She just laid there, covered in fleas, defeated, waiting and waiting for someone who was never coming back.” Suzette Hall Thankfully, Flores reached the family just in time. He scooped the puppies up, then carefully freed their mom. He drove the little family straight to Camino Pet Hospital, where a loving veterinary team got a clos...