Ashley Ortiz

When Danielle and her husky, Pandora, moved houses recently, they were excited to make new friends in their community. Danielle assumed it would take time to build bonds — then Pandora fell in love with someone on their very first walk around the neighborhood.

They were her only hope.

Bree and Eric Inglis were celebrating their wedding in Queensland, Australia, last week, when an uninvited guest suddenly crashed the party.

When Danielle and her husky, Pandora, moved houses recently, they were excited to make new friends in their community.

When Isabella Santos and her friends headed to the beach the other day, they hoped for a relaxing afternoon in the sun.

The other day, a Michigan Animal Rescue League (MARL) staff member named Tommy was holding the door open for one of their resident pups, Tofu, when he noticed something concerning across the street from the shelter. In the distance, there was a white pit bull with brown spots sitting next to a utility pole, and no matter how many times Tommy called out to him, the poor pup wouldn’t budge.

As soon as Nehemiah Turner walks into Jacksonville Humane Society’s headquarters, all the animals’ ears perk up. The sixth-grade volunteer stops by regularly to read books to anxious dogs and cats, and everyone eagerly awaits his visits.

Colleen Attara was getting ready to leave her art studio the other day when she spotted a lone monarch butterfly in the grass. The butterfly was nearly still — only moving one wing and refusing to budge, no matter how close she got.

Last week, the folks at NSPCA Animal Rescue in Ireland received a distressing call for help. A Good Samaritan in Rush, County Dublin, had heard tiny cries coming from a stone wall outside, and they followed the noise to find a full-grown white cat wedged in a deep crevice.

They had no idea how he got there.