Category: Rescue Animals

When venturing out to observe animals, like Victoria Craddock does, you never know what you’ll discover. On this particular day, she was hoping to find some elephants along the Sand River in South Africa. Luckily, it didn’t take much searching to find a whole herd of them out in the river — but one in…

The residential area was calm and receiving a pleasant reprieve of sunshine, but things wouldn’t stay that way for long when one local man discovered a moose stuck in his house fence! A passing motorist had seen the confused creature and stopped to help. What they found, ShadoHHR wrote in the video’s description, was “two…

Oh so you think you’re a tough guy? You think, “I go to the gym a bunch. I lift weights. I’m enjoying True Detective season 2 unironically, because it’s a portrait of masculinity that I recognize in myself,” do you? Well I don’t care who you are. I don’t care how badass you think you…

These heroes have dedicated their lives to rescuing circus animals. They work for the animal rights group Animal Defenders International and their intention is to give poorly cared for animals a new life. While on a rescue mission at a circus in Peru, they managed to save 3 lions. Unfortunately, they had to leave behind…

This is the adorable moment a rescued circus lion is reunited with his daughter after gruelling surgery. The lions were rescued from a circus in Peru where father Leo was so badly abused that he needed dental surgery to repair his mangled teeth. When he came around he immediately looked for his daughter Africa and…

Mother bear was far from being amused when she saw her three cubs sliding down a waterfall in Alaska’s Katmai National Park. The video begins with the anxious mother standing at the side of a low waterfall, watching one of her cubs going over the top. When the second shares the same fate, she takes…

A kind-hearted diver saved a turtle from certain death when a plastic bag became lodged eight inches down her throat. University lecturer Saeed Rashid, 46, was on a trip to the Red Sea when he spotted Hawksbill turtle that was unable to eat due to a plastic bag blocking her airways The female turtle was in…

A giraffe was rescued after getting a car tyre trapped over its neck in Haller Park, Mombasa, Kenya this week. It’s not known how the animal ended up in this situation but the outer part of a wheel had been around her neck for long enough for it to cause a wound. A giraffe has been…

There’s nothing that can get in the way of a mother trying to care for her baby, especially in the animal kingdom. Take it from Mimsy, a mother koala in Stirling, Australia, who stopped at nothing to make sure her joey was safe, even after a debilitating injury. As sweet as it was to see…

Last week, a wild 6-month-old hedgehog, named Pumpkin, was found by a passerby in the most unusual of conditions. Far from the prickly appearance his species is known for, this pudgy little fellow was almost entirely absent of spikes, leaving him defenseless against predators. Fortunately, he was rescued in time and offered safe haven with…