Dog shelters are incredible places — they take care of the animals that other people can’t (or won’t) care for. Although shelters have incredible staff and volunteers, they’re not the same as a forever home.

Harry had always enjoyed hanging out in his family’s fenced-in backyard, but it didn’t offer much visual access to what lay beyond. The pickets on the fence were so closely spaced, it was pretty much impossible to look through them.

A Ukrainian animal protection organization, UAnimals, has been helping feed, care, and evacuate animals since the Russian invasion began three weeks ago.

Nastya Tikhaya, who helps run an animal shelter her parents own in the town of Irpin, near Kyiv, is being hailed a hero for helping abandoned and disabled animals escape the war-torn area.

When a British army veteran saw heartbreaking photos of animals trapped in Ukraine, he knew he had to do something to help. Now that former soldier, Tom, is leading combat veterans into Ukraine to rescue terrified animals trapped on the embattled country’s front lines.

When Grinch first arrived at a shelter in South Texas, he looked more like a carved piece of stone than a dog. He was completely hairless and his skin was gray and scabby.

Aaron Jackson has a knack for being in the right place at the right time. As soon as the founder of the charity organization Planting Peace saw that relief work was needed at the Poland-Ukraine border, he immediately hopped on a flight.

When Stacy Gould and her family first started talking about opening a bookstore, they thought long and hard about the logistics of it all. Since the kids and her husband were both gone all day at school and work, Gould knew she’d be the one going to the store each day — and so would the family dog, Ruby.