Photos and Story: Dog and Guinea Pig are Best Friends


Rex and Smores are inseparable.
Photo via thedodo.com

Rex the Boxer suffers from degenerative myelopathy, a spinal disease that leads to paralysis of a dog’s back legs. Last year, he was sitting in a kill shelter in Orange County, California, when. . .

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Photos: Disabled Dog Becomes Quite a Traveler


Mel’s wheelchair allows him to go pretty much anywhere he wants to.
Photo by Thomas Dilworth via thedodo.com

It was a couple weeks after they brought him home that Mel’s family, the Dilworths, noticed that his balance was little off. And when the eight-year-old Pit Bull was diagnosed with a. . .

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Special-Needs Twins Adopt a Disabled Pit Bull


Tianna and Gianna Johnson pose with Carmella near their New Jersey home.
Photo courtesy Dana Polito-Corry, via abcnews.go.com

Ten-year-old twins in New Jersey got an early Christmas present, when their mom brought home a beautiful Pit Bull named Carmella, who had been living in a foster home for a year. But here’s. . .

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Video: Tumbles the Dog Gets a New set of Wheels


Tumbles takes a break from learning to use his new wheels.
Photo via Friends of Shelter Dogs/Facebook

Here’s a very sweet, moving story from Athen, Ohio, about a little puppy named Tumbles, who was born without front legs. His vet suggested that some sort of cart to support the front of his. . .

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Owner and Dog Bond Over Prosthetic Legs

Maja Kazazic is a survivor, having lived through a bomb blast in her native Bosnia, as well as the infection that ultimately took part of her leg. And for that reason, she was drawn to the story. . .

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