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Today we want to tell you about our little brothers, who, sometimes at the cost of their lives, saved a person’s life. These interesting stories about animals from real life capable of touching everyone's soul. After all, you never know how your fate will turn out and who will have to save your life! We have collected various sad and funny stories about domestic animals and wild animals from all over the world.
1.In the USA, Vinny the cat saved his family. When the house filled with carbon monoxide, he jumped on his sleeping owner and began scratching her while meowing loudly. When the owner woke up with difficulty and could barely get out of bed, she got to the phone and called 911. “If it weren’t for Winnie the cat, who was screaming and scratching, we wouldn’t be here today,” the owner said. The family believes that the gas leak occurred due to a breakdown in the gas distribution system in the basement of the house. According to the rescuers, 5 minutes and this story would have had a sad ending.

2. Dog Tang saved 92 sailors who ran aground. In 1919, a ship called the Ethie hit rocks and ran aground. There were 93 sailors on board and Tang, the ship's Newfoundland dog. After one of the sailors was carried out to sea, the sailors handed a rope to Tang’s teeth and he jumped into the water and went to land. To the general surprise of the sailors, the dog reached the ground holding the rope in his teeth. All 92 sailors survived and were taken to safe place. Tang was later awarded a medal for bravery.

3. In Krasnoyarsk, a dog saved its owner. A young man went into the river to swim. The water was cold and his legs cramped and he began to drown. When the guy completely disappeared into the water, a Labrador named Ram, who was sleeping on the shore, rushed into the water with lightning speed! The dog tried to grab his owner's clothes, but he didn't succeed. Then he grabbed the owner’s hand with his teeth and dragged him to the shore.

4. In a coastal village, a fire broke out at night in one of the old wooden houses. A young mother and her five children from 11 to 2 years old were caught in the fire. They were sleeping peacefully! But Katie’s pet cat smelled the smoke in time, climbed under her owner’s blanket and began scratching her painfully, trying to wake her up. The owner threw the cat away and turned on the other side. But the cat did not give up until she woke up the woman. The evacuation of children began. Everyone was saved... except the cat herself. The house burned to the ground along with their belongings and Katie, who saved everyone. Residents of the village collected money and things for the fire victims, and gave them accommodation for the night. But the savior herself could not even be buried.

5. In Austria, Mandy the goat saved her owner. Farmer Noel Osborne fell and injured his hip, he was too far from anyone who could hear his cries and come to his aid. Noel lay on outdoors 5 days with a broken hip. But how did he survive? He was saved by a goat named Mandy. She lay down next to him, warming her owner. In addition, the goat fed him with her milk, thereby helping the farmer survive in the cold rainy nights. Noel Osborne was rescued by friends on the 6th day.

6. In the 90s in Novosibirsk, an ordinary cat prevented the death of its owner, a major businessman. Having climbed under his car, she did not want to get out of there. Then the man himself reached under the car to get his pet. Imagine his surprise when he discovered that a package was glued to the bottom of the car. The sappers were called and determined that it was a bomb connected to a pager. Fortunately, she was neutralized. Later they found out that the cat saved the owner’s life just half an hour before the possible tragedy.

7. In the Moscow region, a shepherd dog sacrificed its life to save its owner and her 5-year-old daughter. A woman was walking at dusk young dog, when suddenly the dog rushed forward and grabbed his teeth into a bare wire hanging from a power line support. From strong blow The dog died immediately due to electric shock. According to electricians, if not for the dog, either the girl or her mother could have received death blow electric shock

8. In the USA, a rabbit managed to warn its owner about a sneaking thief. In Wisconsin, a woman told police that she woke up to a rabbit drumming its paws, as it always does in the presence of a stranger. The woman jumped up, screamed, and thereby scared away the thief who had entered the house.

9. In Germany, a cat saved a baby who was left on the street overnight in winter. With its loud meowing, the cat attracted the attention of passers-by and thanks to this, the baby was safely taken to a local hospital. The health of the newborn is no longer in danger. Where the boy's mother is is unknown.

10. Doberman Khan had not even been in his new home for four days before he had already saved his owner’s 17-month-old daughter. Charlotte was playing in the backyard of the house when suddenly Khan started growling. As it turned out later, Khan saw a king brown snake in the grass. He tried to push the girl aside to get her away from that place, but he didn’t succeed. Then he carefully took her by the diaper and threw her a meter behind him. Khan's sudden movement frightened the snake, and it bit him on the paw, but after the treatment given to him medical care, the Doberman hero has fully recovered.

11. A cat named Pudding saved the life of his owner Amy Jung on the same day he was taken home from a homeless animal shelter. The girl suffered from diabetes mellitus and when she had an attack, she fell into a diabetic coma. As soon as this happened, Pudding immediately began to bite and push the mistress until she came to her senses a little. Amy was very weak and therefore could not loudly call her son Ethan, who was sleeping in the next room. Then the cat ran into Ethan’s room and began to bite and push him until he woke up and called emergency services for his mother. All doctors admitted that the cat saved the woman’s life.

12. A pit bull dog named Kilo saved his owners. Arriving home after another run, American Justin Becker and his girlfriend heard a knock on the door. When they opened, there was a man standing in the doorway dressed in a delivery uniform who said his scanner was broken and asked if he could come into the house to use their handle and hand them a package. As soon as the guy crossed the threshold, the delivery immediately turned into a robbery. Without thinking twice, the pituble rushed at the robber armed with a pistol. The robber managed to shoot the 12-year-old dog in the head, but the bullet ricocheted off his skull and exited in the neck area, without hitting any vital organs. 3 days later, after receiving medical care, Kilo was already walking on the street.

13. A pig saved a woman during a heart attack. In 1998, Jo Ann Alzman suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Pennsylvania. Lulu, her daughter's pig, ran out of the house and lay down right on the road, thereby stopping traffic. The pig tried tirelessly to help the woman, returning home to check on Jo Ann and then running back outside for help. As a result, she managed to attract attention: one man stopped the car and followed the pig into the house, where he found a woman lying on the floor and, realizing what had happened, called an ambulance.

14. German shepherd Buddy saved his beloved owner. Joe Stalnecker adopted Buddy when he was just 8 months old. Joe also taught him how to use the phone to call 911 when he started experiencing symptoms of impending seizures. If Joe loses consciousness and is unable to call emergency services, then Buddy will have to call emergency services by pressing the shortcut button with his teeth. In 2008, the emergency service received a call, but no one spoke on the other end of the line, and only someone could be heard loudly whining and howling. Paramedics arrived on the scene a couple of minutes later and found Joe Stalnecker unconscious on the floor of his home. A couple of days later, Joe left the hospital. Thus, the shepherd saved a man's life.

15. Parrot Willie saved a two-year-old girl, Hanna Kuusk, who would have suffocated if not for the bird’s reaction. Megan Howard, the child's nanny and the parrot's owner, made a pie, put it on the table to cool and went to the toilet. While in the toilet, she suddenly heard a parrot loudly screaming something like this: “Mom! Baby! Mother! Baby!". Megan ran to the kitchen and saw a bitten pie, and next to her a girl with already blue lips who was choking. The woman quickly performed the Heimlich maneuver and the girl herself spat out the piece of pie. For saving the girl, Willie the parrot was presented with an award by the local Red Cross service.

16. The Jersey cocker grabbed onto his owner Tom Owen's trousers as he headed to a friend's place to fly on his private jet. The usually quiet and calm dog whined and growled menacingly. Noticing that the owner was getting ready to leave, the dog bit him on the leg, provoking the anger of the whole family and he ended up not going anywhere. And in the morning it became known that a friend had crashed his plane, crashing into a rock.

17. A case from Russia - a mongrel saved several families from an earthquake who fed it. Suddenly the dog began to howl heart-rendingly under the doors of the houses. Residents were forced to leave, and at this time the walls collapsed.

18. Golden Retriever Toby saved his owner. While at home, 45-year-old Debbie Parkhurst was eating an apple and suddenly choked on a piece that blocked Airways. The woman began to choke!!! At that moment, her 2-year-old golden retriever knocked her to the floor and began jumping on her owner’s chest. So Toby the dog did something similar to the Heimlich maneuver until a piece of apple flew out of her throat. After that, he began to lick the woman’s face, thanks to which she did not lose consciousness.

19. A rabbit saved a man who had been suffering from diabetes since childhood from a coma. In the UK, Simon Stegall fell into a coma while watching television. His pet rabbit Dory saw this and jumped on his chest, hitting him hard. Victoria, Simon's wife, noticed Dory's strange behavior, realized what had happened, and called an ambulance.

20. English cocker spaniel Honey saved the life of his owner. One day, Michael Bosch and his dog Honey were involved in an SUV accident. Michael soon realized that he and Honey were trapped in the overturned car. Somehow the man was able to release the dog so that it could bring someone to help, although he himself did not really believe in it. A 5-month-old English Cocker Spaniel caught the attention of a man half a mile away from an overturned car and led him to the scene of the accident. Rescuers later said that if it had not been for Honey, Michael would have died.

21. In Thailand, in the city of Phuket, the elephant Ningnong saved the life of an 8-year-old girl, Amber Mason. She was on holiday with her mother and stepfather and became friends with a 4-year-old elephant named Ningnong. The place where they settled was covered by a tsunami. One day, while playing on the beach with other elephants, Ningnong sensed something was wrong and ran back to the girl, so when a tsunami hit the city, the little girl was not harmed, because Ningnong sheltered her from the elements with his own body.

22. Chihuahua Chi-Chi saved the lives of two women. Mary Lane and her husband were relaxing on the beach with their Chihuahua named Chi-Chi. He had a very calm character and sat on a chair. But suddenly the dog jumped up and ran along the beach, barking loudly and dragging along the sand on a leash a small chair to which it was tied. The owners chased after him and saw two elderly ladies who were caught in the storm waves and were drowning in the water, unable to get ashore. Mary and her husband quickly dragged the ladies ashore. Returning back to the resting place, the couple saw Chi-Chi sleeping peacefully in her chair.

23. Mila the beluga whale rescued a 26-year-old diver while he was taking part in a free diving competition during which no breathing equipment is allowed. The competition was held in a 6-meter deep pool among whales. At the same time, the water was cooled to the temperature of water in the Arctic. When the diver wanted to return to the surface, he felt that his legs were cramped from the cold and he could not move them. And then the beluga whale carefully took the beluga whale’s legs with her teeth and lifted her to the surface. Beluga whales, like dolphins, have telepathy and read minds, which saved the diver’s life.

24. Dolphins saved swimmers from a shark in the coastal waters of New Zealand. In 2004, four people escaped death from a great white shark thanks to a group of dolphins that swam around them in circles until the shark lost interest and swam away. At first, the swimmers thought that the dolphins were just playing with them, but quickly realized that these smart animals had actually saved them from a 3-meter white shark that was trying to break through the “ring.”

25. Lions saved a girl from kidnappers in Ethiopia in 2005. On her way home from school, a 12-year-old girl was abducted by four men. A few days later, the kidnappers met three lions, who drove away the intruders who abandoned the girl. But the lions did her no harm. When the police finally found the girl, the predators simply left.

26. A dog saved a man from drowning in Spain. A chocolate Labrador named Nanuk spotted a drowning man in the port of Malaga and brought his owner to the scene. The thin man, who looked to be 60 years old, was almost frozen and close to drowning. If it weren’t for the dog, he would hardly have survived this situation. Labrador later received praise from the port authority.

27. Salia's cat saved a man during a house fire in Australia in 2014. Craig Jeeves was sleeping at home when the fire started. Suddenly the tabby cat Sally jumped on his head and started screaming. Jeeves woke up just in time to escape from the house, which soon burned down completely.

28. A horse named Kerry saved its owner, mother of two children Fiona Boyd. She was alone on the family farm when she suddenly heard a calf screaming outside the window. When she went outside, she saw that the calf had lost its mother and could not find her among the other cows. She decided to help him and take the calf to his mother in the barn. But the mother noticed her calf earlier and misunderstood Fiona's gesture, believing that the woman had taken her calf and wanted to kill it. The cow rushed at the woman, knocking her off her feet, and then began to trample on her. Fiona was lying on the ground, covering her head with her hands, but when the stomping stopped, she looked up and saw that her 15-year-old horse named Kerry, who was nearby, began to kick the cow. While the horse distracted the cow, Fiona managed to crawl to safety under an electric fence.

29. In the US state of Arkansas, a calf saved a woman from a snake. Janice Wolf was in the back pasture of the farm where she worked when an 11-month-old Watussi calf suddenly turned toward her and blocked her path. She couldn’t understand why he was doing this, so she grabbed him by the horns and tried to lead him out of her way. However, the animal raised its head, causing the woman to lose her balance and fall. Then, when Janice saw a poisonous snake in the grass, she realized that the snake was exactly where her leg would have been if not for the Watussi. This is how a calf saved a woman’s life.

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“I stood in line at the store, behind a little grandmother, whose hands were shaking, a lost look, she was tightly clutching a small wallet to her chest, you’ve probably seen one like this, I’ve seen this one several times and she didn’t have enough 7 rubles to buy it, then what did she take, bread, milk, cereal, a tiny piece liver sausage. And the seller spoke to her very rudely, and she stood there so lost, I felt so sorry for her, I made a remark to the seller and put 10 rubles on the cash register. But my heart started beating so quickly, I took this grandmother’s hand, she looked into my eyes, it seemed like she didn’t understand why I did it, but I took it and led me to shopping room, at the same time collecting food for her in a basket, only the most necessary things, meat, bones for soup, eggs, all sorts of cereals, and she walked silently behind me and everyone looked at us. We got to the fruit and I asked what she liked, my grandmother silently looked at me and batted her eyes. I took a little of everything, but I think it will last her a long time. We approached the checkout, people parted and let us skip the line, then I realized that I didn’t have much money with me and was barely enough for her basket, I left mine in the hall, paid, holding this grandmother’s hand all this time and we went out into the street . At that moment, I noticed that a tear was running down my grandmother’s cheek, I asked where I could take her, put her in the car, and she offered to come in for tea. We went to her house, I had never seen anything like this, everything was like a scoop, but cozy, while she warmed the tea and put onion pies on the table, I looked around and realized how our old people live. After everything, I got into the car and then it hit me. I cried for about 10 minutes..."

14.10.2016 2 3929

One day, a father scolded his four-year-old daughter for spending, as it seemed to him, in vain, a large number of gold wrapping paper, covering an empty box to place under the Christmas tree.
There was barely any money.
And because of this, my father was even more nervous.
The next morning the girl brought her father the box she had covered and said:
- Dad, this is for you!
The father was incredibly embarrassed and repented of his intemperance the day before.
However, remorse gave way to a new attack of irritation when, upon opening the box, he saw that it was empty.
“Don’t you know that when you give someone a gift, there must be something inside?” - he shouted to his daughter.
The little girl raised her big, teary eyes and said:
- It's not empty, daddy. I put my kisses there. They are all for you.
Because of the feelings that washed over him, his father could not speak.
He just hugged his little girl and begged her to forgive him.
My father told me later that this box covered with gold, he long years kept it near his bed.
When difficult moments came in his life, he simply opened it, and then all those kisses that his daughter put there flew out, touching his cheeks, forehead, eyes and hands.

23.08.2016 0 4257

I never thought that I would find myself in a situation from which I could not extricate myself. Briefly about myself: I am 28 years old, my husband is 27, we are raising a wonderful son. three years . I grew up in a Ukrainian village, my parents are in good standing there, although they have been going to Russia to work for five years. I’ve been married for four years now, but this is not marriage, it’s hell! When we met, everything was like in a fairy tale: flowers every day, soft toys, kisses until the morning! Then, as young people always do, they get stuck. But my darling was not afraid and said: give birth. My husband goes on voyages, he is a sailor and earns good money. And now the time has come to meet his would-be parents. They didn’t like me right away, they say I’m a provincial girl. His parents have been divorced for twenty years, but they communicate with each other. His father never loved his children and was embarrassed: they lived poorly and poorly after the divorce, but his son lived well: he got a job as a gigolo with a young rich girl. My parents paid for the wedding, they also rented the apartment for six months, and his parents just shouted throughout the town that they had given us a gorgeous wedding. My husband’s vacation was over, he had to return to sea, and he didn’t want to leave me alone for a long time in a rented apartment. I took it to my mother-in-law, and then I experienced all the torments of hell: she hid food from me, locked the washing machine in the pantry so that I could wash it by hand, turned on the music at full volume, pushed me, and so on. The time came to give birth, I went at night myself, without waking anyone, and in the morning, lying with the baby in the ward, I listened on the phone to how bad I was for not closing the vestibule (I don’t have the keys to it). I spent three days in the maternity hospital, no one came. My mother couldn’t get there because it was January and the roads were very snowy. True, my godmother came to the discharge with flowers and took me away. We returned home, and there the holiday was in full swing! Drunk people whom I don't know rushed to bathe my son. And we also experienced this. The husband returned six months later, the baby was three months old. At that time, we were living in the village with our mother: she came on vacation and took us. My husband and I returned again to that hell from which we had just escaped. Difficulties have already begun in our relationship. True, he helped a lot with the baby: he washed diapers and heated porridge; there were no problems with money, since he earned good money. And then pressure began from his mother-in-law so that he would give her $200 a month for utilities. My mother-in-law, my child and I, my husband and his older brother, who at 30 years old had not worked anywhere and sat at the computer for days, lived in a three-room apartment. My husband correctly said that we would all pay equally, so she got mad and kicked the baby and me out onto the street, and we had to rent an apartment. We didn’t communicate with her at all for two years, and then she called and said that she was in the hospital. We immediately took off and drove off. She had a breast tumor, but everything turned out okay. We paid for the operation and the postoperative period, she was discharged, and her husband began visiting his mother often. And then I noticed that as soon as he stayed with her, he arrived drunk and aggressive. He began to reproach me that it was I who brought his mother to surgery (I wonder how?). Before that, he drank very rarely - he valued his career, but now for a long time he has been turning into a drunk, an aggressive tyrant, raising his hand at me, shouting that I am a kept woman and a beggar (these are the words of his mother). Yesterday I came drunk again, now I’m sitting all in gold, like Christmas tree, and with a black eye.

02.06.2016 0 1982

When this old man died in a nursing home in a small Australian town, everyone believed that he had passed away without leaving any valuable trace. Later, when the nurses were sorting through his meager belongings, they discovered this poem. Its meaning and content impressed the employees so much that copies of the poem were quickly distributed to all hospital employees. One nurse took a copy to Melbourne... The old man's only will has since appeared in Christmas magazines across the country, as well as in psychology magazines. And this old man, who died a beggar in a godforsaken town in Australia, amazed people all over the world with the depth of his soul.
Coming in to wake me up in the morning,
Who do you see, nurse?
The old man is capricious, out of habit
Still living somehow,
Half blind, half fool
“Living” can be put in quotation marks.
If he doesn’t hear, he has to work hard,
Wastes grub.
He mumbles all the time - I can't get along with him.
Well, as long as you can, shut up!
He knocked the plate over on the floor.
Where are the shoes? Where is the second sock?
The last one is a fucking hero.
Get off the bed! May you perish...
Sister! Look into my eyes!
Be able to see what...
Behind this weakness and pain,
For a life lived, big.
Behind a moth-eaten jacket
Behind flabby skin, “behind the soul.”
Beyond today
Try to see ME...
... I'm a boy! Dear fidget,
Cheerful, slightly mischievous.
I'm scared. I'm five years old at most,
And the carousel is so high!
But here is father and mother nearby,
I glare at them.
And although my fear is ineradicable,
I know for sure that we love...
... Here I am sixteen, I'm on fire!
My soul is soaring in the clouds!
I dream, I’m happy, I’m sad,
I'm young, I'm looking for love...
... And here it is, my happy moment!
I'm twenty-eight. I'm the groom!
I go to the altar with love,
And again I burn, I burn, I burn...
... I'm thirty-five, my family is growing,
We already have sons
Your own home, farm. And wife
My daughter is about to give birth...
... And life flies, flies forward!
I'm forty-five - a whirlwind!
And the children are growing by leaps and bounds.
Toys, school, college...
All! Flew away from the nest
And they scattered in all directions!
The running of celestial bodies has slowed down,
Our cozy home is empty...
... But my beloved and I are together!
We lie down together and get up.
She doesn't let me be sad.
And life flies forward again...
... Now I'm already sixty.
The children are screaming in the house again!
Grandchildren have a cheerful round dance.
Oh, how happy we are! But here...
... Dim suddenly. Sun light.
My beloved is no more!
Happiness also has its limits...
I turned gray in a week
Haggard, soul drooping
And I felt that I was an old man...
... Now I live without any fuss,
I live for my grandchildren and children.
My world is with me, but every day
Less and less light in it...
Having shouldered the cross of old age,
I'm tired of wandering to nowhere.
The heart was covered with a crust of ice.
And time does not heal my pain.
Oh Lord, how long life is,
When she doesn't make you happy...
... But you have to come to terms with it.
Nothing is eternal under the Moon.
And you, bending over me,
Open your eyes, sister.
I'm not a capricious old man, no!
Beloved husband, father and grandfather...
... and the boy is small, until now
Into the radiance sunny day
Flying into the distance on a carousel...
Try to see ME...
And maybe, while grieving for me, you will find YOURSELF!
Remember this poem the next time you meet an old
human! And think that sooner or later you will also be like him or her! The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be
see or touch. They should be felt by the heart!

29.05.2016 0 1799

The other day I had a successful hunt; I easily found the wolves’ den. I immediately shot the she-wolf with shot, and my dog ​​killed two of her puppies. He was already boasting to his wife about his prey, when a wolf howl was heard in the distance, but this time it was somehow unusual. He was saturated with grief and melancholy.
And in the morning of the next day, although I was sleeping quite soundly, a roar at the house woke me up, I ran out the door in what I was wearing. A wild picture appeared before my eyes: a huge wolf was standing near my house. The dog was on a chain, and the chain couldn’t reach him, and he probably couldn’t help. And next to him, my daughter stood and cheerfully played with his tail.
I couldn’t help at that moment, and she didn’t understand what was in danger. We met the wolf's eyes. “The head of that family,” I immediately understood. And he just whispered with his lips: “Don’t touch your daughter, kill me better.”
My eyes filled with tears, and my daughter asked: “Dad, what’s wrong with you?” Leaving the wolf's tail, she immediately ran up. He pulled her close with one hand. And the wolf left, leaving us alone. And he did not harm either my daughter or me, for the pain and grief I caused him, for the death of his she-wolf and children.
He took revenge. But he took revenge without bloodshed. He showed that he stronger than people. He conveyed his feeling of pain to me. And he made it clear that I killed the children...

09.05.2016 0 1474

This letter from father to son was written by Livingston Larned almost 100 years ago, but it touches the hearts of people to this day. It became popular after Dale Carnegie published it in his book.
“Listen, son. I say these words when you sleep; your small hand is tucked under your cheek, and your curly blond hair is stuck together on your damp forehead. I sneaked into your room alone. A few minutes ago, as I was sitting in the library reading the newspaper, a heavy wave of remorse washed over me. I came to your bed with a consciousness of my guilt.
That's what I was thinking, son: I took it out on you Bad mood. I scolded you when you were getting dressed to go to school because you just touched your face with a wet towel. I scolded you for not cleaning your shoes. I yelled at you angrily when you threw some of your clothes on the floor.
I also nagged at you at breakfast. You spilled the tea. You greedily swallowed the food. You rested your elbows on the table. You buttered the bread too thickly. And then, when you went to play, and I was hurrying to catch the train, you turned around, waved to me and shouted: “Bye, dad!” - I frowned and answered: “Straighten your shoulders!”
Then, at the end of the day, it all started again. Walking on the way home, I noticed you on your knees playing with marbles. There were holes in your stockings. I humiliated you in front of your comrades by forcing you to walk home ahead of me. Stockings are expensive - and if you had to buy them with your own money, you would be more careful! Just imagine, son, what your father said!
Do you remember how you then entered the library where I was reading, timidly, with pain in your eyes? When I glanced at you over the newspaper, irritated at being interrupted, you stopped hesitantly at the door. "What do you need?" - I asked sharply.
You didn’t answer, but impulsively rushed to me, hugged me by the neck and kissed me. Your hands squeezed me with the love that God put into your heart and which even my neglect could not dry up. And then you left, stomping up the stairs.
So, son, soon after that the newspaper slipped out of my hands and a terrible, sickening fear took possession of me. What did habit do to me? The habit of finding fault, scolding - such was my reward to you for being a little boy. It’s impossible to say that I didn’t love you, the whole point is that I expected too much from my youth and measured you by the standard of my own years.
And there is so much healthy, beautiful and sincere in your character. Your little heart as great as the dawn over the distant hills. This was manifested in your spontaneous impulse when you rushed to me to kiss me before going to bed. Nothing else matters today, son.
I came to your crib in the dark and, ashamed, knelt before you! This is weak atonement. I know you wouldn't understand these things if I told you all this when you woke up. But tomorrow I will be a real father! I will be your friend, suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when an irritated word is about to escape. I will constantly repeat like a spell: “He’s only a boy, a little boy!”
I'm afraid that in my mind I saw you as a grown man. However, now, when I see you, son, wearily huddled in your crib, I understand that you are still a child. Just yesterday you were in your mother’s arms and your head was lying on her shoulder. I demanded too much, too much."

Incredible facts

Life has repeatedly proven that animals experience almost the same emotions as people. Some even believe that our smaller brothers are capable of love, friendship and loyalty no less than people, or even more than them.

Animals suffer when left alone; they deeply feel the loss of loved ones; and mothers are ready to give their lives for their children without hesitation (even if it is the mother of a Tyrannosaurus rex!).

However, animals will always remain animals: no matter how human be their emotions, animals will never receive the same status in this world that people have. Nature itself ordered it this way...

We present to your attention ten real stories about animals that not only touch, but can become quite instructive even for people. Perhaps they will help you take a completely different look at the world around us.

Friendship between animals and people

Maddison and Lily: a story of female friendship

It is not simple touching story about the friendship of two dogs – it’s instructive a story of selfless devotion and support, which became the basis of survival. Moreover, the ending of this story is far from a happy ending. In a word, everything is like in life...

The main characters of the story are two female Great Danes named Maddison and Lily. At the age of one and a half years, Lily lost her sight. The reason is an injury, due to which the eyelashes have grown into the dog’s eyeballs, causing constant suffering to the animal.

Perhaps she should have been taken to the vet sooner. However, when they finally did it, it was too late: Lily's damaged eyes had to be removed. Luckily for Lily, she came under the care of a Great Dane named Maddison, who became a real guide for her friend.

However, the owners decided to give the animals to a shelter located in the city of Shrewsbury (Shropshire, UK). There the dogs lived in perfect harmony, causing tenderness to the shelter workers. The animals literally never parted for a minute, becoming an example of touching friendship.

However, after some time, a family from the town of Nantwich, Cheshire, decided to take the Great Dane. We don't know why, but the move was stressful for Lily, who became embittered and began to lash out at Maddison and attack her. It was decided to separate the couple...

Jack: firefighter dog and psychologist

And this story is about how human kindness not only saved the life of an animal, but, thanks to a coincidence of circumstances, indirectly led (and continues to lead) to saving the lives of many people. But more about everything.

Several years ago, a barn burned down in Hanahan, Berkeley County, Southern California. Firefighters managed to pull him out of the fire puppy named Jack, who received second and third degree burns - more than 75 percent of his body was burned!

Jack's owners took the dog to a veterinary clinic, from where, apparently, they had no intention of taking him away. Fortunately, Jack's recovery did not take long to happen. And then the dog was found and new owner– he was taken in by a fireman named Lindler, who, in fact, pulled Jack out of the fire.

The dog recovered quickly and was soon involved in the work of the fire brigade. After some time she became the real one firefighter mascot. Moreover, Jack began to be used for information company, in which the animal was taken around schools, talking about preventive measures to combat fires.

Further - more: Jack was called to the fireman's oath (apparently, he barked it), and then he was given an official badge as a full member of the state fire brigade. Now Jack has become part of a program for the rehabilitation of children who survived fires.

Children come into contact with a dog whose body still bears terrible scars from a long-ago fire. Jack - very kind and cheerful dog, attracting the love of others. In this way, children are shown that, despite the burns that disfigure the body, inner beauty remains untouchable...

Bob the Cat and street musician James Bowen

This story of friendship between a cat and a London street musician is worthy of a writer's pen. Actually, it was embodied on paper by the musician himself, who retrained as a writer, for which he gained considerable fame.

Bowen, born in 1979 in the UK, spent his childhood in Australia. In 1997, he returned to his homeland, to his half-sister. However, very soon he became homeless. And in general, his life cannot be called happy: in childhood he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and, having lost his home, the man became a heroin addict.

All his life, from early childhood until the spring of 2007, James was a real outcast. Until I met you homeless red cat. The animal's leg was seriously injured, and Bowen did everything he could to heal the cat (whom he named "Bob").

Then the musician began to take Bob to his street performances, gaining a certain popularity among the London public precisely thanks to this tandem - a man and a cat. After some time, James retrained as a street newspaper seller.

However, people continued to come to him only to to see this couple. Videos with James and Bob began to appear on YouTube. It was around then that Bowen decided to give up drugs. In fact, it was Bob who made it happen.

To say that James' life has changed dramatically is an understatement. Since then, he has published six books (co-authored with writer Harry Jenkins), each of which contained stories about the life of the author himself and Bob the cat.

The books became bestsellers, and one of them, "A Street Cat Named Bob", was nominated for a prestigious award - the British National Book Award. Based on this book, a film of the same name was released in 2016, which received the British National Film Award as “ Best movie Britain."

A touching story of animal friendship

Baloo the bear, Leo the lion and Shere Khan the tiger

It is believed that for a tiger, lion and bear to coexist (that is, in the same enclosure or cage) is something out of the realm of fantasy. However this trio completely destroyed stereotypes. Looking at them, you get the feeling that the animals seem to have stepped out of the pages of the famous “The Jungle Book” by Ruyard Kipling.

In fact, there are no analogues of this peacefully coexisting trio in the whole world. But how did they find mutual language? We can say that the animals were brought together by a difficult childhood: they, while still cubs, were found in the basement of a drug dealer in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

It was obvious that no one cared about the animals - they were on the verge starvation . They were all taken together to the state animal shelter located in the town of Locust Grove, where the kids had a long recovery from their numerous injuries and illnesses.

Without further ado, the shelter workers named the Tiger Cub Shere Khan, the bear cub Baloo, and the lion cub Leo. Since that moment, the animals have been separated only once - Balu underwent surgery to remove a tourniquet from his neck that had grown into his body.

The trio spends all their free time together, as if they were representatives of the same species. They are practically inseparable: the animals walk together, sleep, caress, and eat. Initially, the shelter workers thought to place them in different enclosures. However, realizing that these three were united by a common misfortune back in early childhood , the animals were left to live together.

The non-profit Noah's Ark Center (that is the name of this shelter in the state of Georgia) has become a new home for one and a half thousand different animals. However, the uniqueness of Baloo, Leo and Shere Khan is undeniable. As is their kindness - the Center’s workers enter their enclosure without fear, calling the animals a real family.

Nurse cat Rademenes

This story looks mystical (especially considering the fact that its main participant is a black cat). In 2014 in medical Center A two-month-old cat was brought for the animals of the city of Bydgoszcz, Poland. They brought him to put him to sleep, as he was seriously ill - severe inflammation of the respiratory tract.

The cat was getting worse and worse every day, but the shelter workers did not raise their hand to euthanize this little fluffy bundle of fading life. They gave Rademenes a chance and got away with it, for which they were later rewarded. But not financially.

The cat, having returned to life, suddenly began to demonstrate behavior that is more typical of people rather than animals - Rademenes began to take care of each guest Polish shelter-clinic, and without paying attention to the type of animal.

No, Rademenes did not learn how to take tests and prescribe medications! However, throughout the whole day he takes care of every sick creature who ends up in the shelter: Rademenes lies next to the sick animals, licks their faces and ears, hugs them with his paws, and shares his warmth.

Shelter workers have long considered the cat their mascot, which promises recovery for every patient animal shelter-clinic. The sight of a cat taking care of its fellow cats has become so familiar to everyone in this center that they have long jokingly (or even seriously!) called Rademenes a nurse and their colleague.

Touching photos of animals and people

Mzee the turtle and Owen the hippopotamus

Looking at this couple, you just expect the hippopotamus to say: “Take me for a ride, big turtle!” However, the hippopotamus named Owen weighs much more than a lion cub... And the advanced age of the turtle named Mzee seems to hint at the need for respectable behavior.

This unusual friendship between a turtle and a hippopotamus began in 2004. Owen had previously lived in Kenya with his family, but lost all my loved ones after the tsunami, which happened then in the Indian Ocean. The animal was identified in Haller Park, one of the reserves in Kenya.

Although the hippopotamus already weighed a couple of hundred kilograms at that time, it was very weak. Trying to place him in some other hippo family would be reckless - the males would not be able to accept the baby, killing him as a potential competitor.

But Owen suddenly found himself new family- in the person of a 130-year-old turtle named Mzee! The latter did not immediately appreciate the breadth of soul and good impulses of the young hippopotamus trying for a long time avoid contact with him. However, Owen turned out to be even more stubborn.

The giant turtle gave in and soon this unusual friendship became strong and famous throughout the world. The animals, a year later, began to best friends. They are almost always together, sometimes in a pond, sometimes eating, sometimes just lying under a tree in the leaves and grass.

Owen eventually adopted the turtle's habits: he not only sleeps at night, unlike other hippos, but also eats turtle food well. It would probably be better to call this relationship a mother-son relationship rather than a friendship. Although the animals frolic as equals (which, in principle, is not typical for turtles).

Owen is becoming bigger and bigger every day than Mzee (who was originally three times the size of a hippopotamus). More likely, reserve workers will be forced to separate the animals, so that Owen, because of his love and playfulness, does not crush or trample poor Mzee. However, perhaps people will come up with something else so as not to separate this unusual couple.

The dog who couldn't forget his dead owner

Ten years have passed since the release of a heart-warming and touching story about dog loyalty called “Hachiko: The Most Faithful Friend.” Despite the wide popularity of this story, it is impossible not to recall it in this article.

However, you don’t have to focus on Hachiko. In fact, similar stories related to the manifestation endless loyalty from dogs, occur much more often. In this article we will talk about a German shepherd named “Captain”, who lived in the Argentine town of Villa Carlos Paz (province of Cordoba).

A certain Miguel Guzman gave a German Shepherd puppy to his son. However, as often happens, he himself became the Captain's real and most beloved master. A year later, Miguel died unexpectedly. On the same day, the dog disappeared from the house. At least when Guzman's relatives returned home after the funeral, the Captain was no longer there.

The owners decided that something had happened to the dog. However, when they visited the father of the family at the cemetery the following Sunday, discovered the Captain on the gravestone of the head of the family. The dog saw them and began to howl, as if complaining and mourning Miguel.

Since then, the Captain literally lived on his master's grave. They repeatedly tried to bring him back home, but the dog did not stay there for long - every evening at six o’clock she lay down on Miguel Guzman’s grave, where she spent the whole night.

Compassionate visitors to the cemetery and its workers fed the Captain. So he lived at the grave for ten whole years. There he died, and quite recently. Representatives of the Animal Welfare Fund plan to obtain permission from relatives to bury faithful dog next to his beloved owner.

Our smaller brothers

Jack the dog is the winner of cancer

Another story related to German Shepherd nicknamed Jack, touched the souls of so many people suffering from various cancers. Jack the dog was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 14 months.

The owners took the animal to the clinic, where Jack eventually underwent a six-hour operation to remove the cancerous tumor, which had already metastasized. which amazed him all left ear . The cancer had penetrated the external auditory canal, and therefore the animal's left ear had to be amputated.

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