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BREAKING NEWS: The Cape May Police Department in New Jersey responded to a call of delinquency. A pug had burst free of her home and was rampaging across the town in a flurry of smiles and kisses.

“Our officer went down and found the dog, picked her up and brought her back to the station,” Anthony Marino, Cape May Police chief, told The Dodo.

The dog was processed like any hooligan, mugshot and all. Or should I say “pugshot?”

This mischevious dog had become thoroughly lost.

“They decided to take her mugshot to get her picture out on social media in kind of a humorous way,” Marino said. “We wanted to find the owner, because at that point we had no idea who the owner was.”

In the meantime, the hardened criminal was brought into a cell to consider what she’d done.

After the pug’s mugshot was posted to Facebook, it went immediately viral. They posted it with the caption “this is what happens when you run away from home.”

Because it went viral, they were able to find this rascal’s owner.

“We use social media a lot. It’s a great way to reach a lot of people. You can reach a ton of people. It’s a great way for us to get investigative leads,” Marino said. “And sure enough, someone who saw the Facebook post knew the dog’s owner and got in touch with them. We were able to reunite the dog and her owner. Everyone found it funny, but it ended up finding the owner for us.”

The pug named Bean was finally returned home. Hopefully this criminal has been reformed.

Source: The Dodo

Jane Dickinson was bringing her dog Maisy to the vet for her scheduled surgery. She was afraid of what could happen during surgery. Maisy was having a mass removed from her spleen. Her stomach was full of something and was not digesting properly.

The vet thought it was cancer.

Everyone was concerned that Maisy might not make it through the surgery.

Fast forward to the surgery. Dr. Nick Blackburn was in the process of removing the spleen when he discovered what was actually causing Maisy’s illness.

Teddy Bears.

The St. Bernard had eaten four entire teddy bears, stolen from her best friend.

“To be honest, I was a little shocked, as she doesn’t play with toys and never even seen her chewing them,” says Dickinson. “She would steal my Chihuahua’s toys but just leave them outside. I had no idea how she was able to digest so many.”

Dr. Blackburn was also surprised.

“It’s fair to say this was not something we were expecting to find!” he says. “We all know certain dogs enjoy chewing things they shouldn’t but managing to devour four full teddy bears is quite a feat.”

Fortunately, Maisy was able to make a full recovery. They confirmed that she did not have cancer, just stuffed animals. But what’s to stop her from eating more teddy bears?

“She’s not given the opportunity,” Dickinson says. “The toy box is now hidden away.”

Territorio de Zaguates is the best place to go if you are a dog lover. It is a no-kill dog facility in Costa Rica, which is home to 970 dogs. It is called “Land of the Strays.”

Recently, a photographer by the name of Dan Giannopoulos spent some time at the shelter.

“To look out and see hundreds of dogs running across the field was completely breathtaking to me. I’ve never seen anything like it,” says Giannopoulos.

The shelter is about an hour away from San Jose. It has 378 acres of mountain land, plenty of space for the dogs, their visitors, and the employees and volunteers.

The founders, Lya Battle and Alvaro Saumet began by taking in strays at their house. Once they had 100 dogs, they moved them to a farm owned by Battle’s grandfather.

They are currently trying to get non-profit status from the government of Costa Rica. Altogether, they dogs eat 13 bags of dog food a day, the 66-pound size.

And after 11 dogs were found dead recently, they suspect the neighbors are trying to get rid of the shelter through any means necessary.

But for the dogs, this is an ideal place to live. An idyllic mountain scene covered in dogs of various colors, shapes and sizes. What’s not to love?

Giannopolous says: “If I can take pictures and tell their story, and help in some way, then I’ll do that. That’s the most important thing for me.”

Nanook the Husky has a spirit of adventure deep within him. This a great thing when you live in Alaska.

Nanook (Nookie) and his owner Scott Swift live at the head of Crow Pass Trail. Nanook decided all on his own to become an unofficial “guide dog” for hikers on the trail.

“He likes to go off on adventures on his own,” Swift tells MNN. “He just disappears and goes and hooks up with a hiker or backpacker or a mountain runner. One time he met up with the Army doing a training exercise. That time he was gone for seven days.”

One day, Scott got a phone call about Nookie’s latest adventure. He had rescued an injured woman and waited for help to arrive.

Amelia Milling is a college student from Tennessee. She had three day hike planned, and things were going fine until she reached the pass.

“I’m a Southerner, so I wasn’t thinking about snow,” Milling said. She is deaf, so she spoke through an interpreter.

She camped Tuesday morning, then attempted the descend into the valley. She lost her trekking poles and slid down a long slope. Then she hit a rock and was launched into the air.

“I felt like I was flying,” she said.

When she finally landed, she slid an additional two to three hundred feet.

Enter Nanook.

“My first response was, where’s the owner?” she said. “Then I saw the collar and it said (the dog) was a Crow Pass guide, and I realized that he was there to help me.”

Amelia followed the dog back to the trail. They camped together overnight.

In the morning, Milling was set to cross the the Eagle River, but the regular ford site  was proving difficult. Amelia decided to find a different place to cross.

The spot she chose was much deeper. She fell, clinging to her backpack as she floated in downstream. Fortunately, Nanook was there to pull her out.

“I was struggling,” she said.

After Nanook helped her get out of the water, she tried to warm up in her sleeping bag, but to no avail. She activated her emergency beacon, and they waited for the helicopter together.

When Amelia was rescued, and they discovered Nanook wasn’t her dog, they called Nanook’s owner to tell him about what the dog had done.

The best part about this story? This isn’t the first time Nanook has rescued someone on the trail.

“This is the second time I’ve heard of he has saved someone from drowning in that river,” he said.

A couple of years ago, a family was hiking the trail when a little girl fell into the river. Nanook rescued her and brought her to shore.

With the spotlight so recently on Nanook, other people have shared their stories about their adventures with Nanook. A neighbor said she was snowshoeing when an avalanche occurred, and Nanook stopped her from sliding down the mountain.

Amelia says “I believe the dog is a guardian angel. I told him several times that I love him and I’ll never forget him.”

She’s not the only one that feels that way.

Source: Mother Nature Network, Anchorage Daily News

Marilia and Matheus of Sao Paulo Brazil had an outdoor wedding planned. Unfortunately, the day of the wedding came and a heavy rainstorm was going through area. The wedding was not postponed, just moved under a weatherproof canopy.

While the guests settled into their seats, an unusual wedding crasher joined the crowd. A stray dog, hoping to escape the rain. The guests tried to shoo the dog away, but he didn’t leave for long.

“As the ceremony started, to everyone’s surprise, it was the dog who came in when the bridal chorus began to play,” Marília told The Dodo.

They shooed the dog again, but right as the actual ceremony was about to begin, he returned.

“The dog entered and laid down to sleep on my veil,” Marília said.

This time, they let the dog stay.

“It was a very pleasant surprise for me, because I love animals,” she said. “I liked it very much.”

The dog stayed for the rest of the evening, mingling with the guests as if he were a member of the family. At the end of the evening, Marilia and her new husband went looking for the dog.

At some point, the rain had let up and the dog had slipped away into the night.

The newlyweds had decided to adopt the dog, if they could only find him.

“We decided to adopt him because he is a street dog,” Marília said. “It took us a long time to find him again, but yesterday, we were contacted and told his whereabouts.”

They named him Snoop.

“He came home, and I showered him,” Marília said. “He played a lot, ate, drank water. He is very happy and slept super good the first night.”

The new family couldn’t be better.

“We’re all very happy.”