Jonathan Evison wasn’t expecting to make a new friend on his morning hike – especially not a baby bear!
While enjoying a nature walk near the Olympic Mountains in Washington, a best-selling writer stumbled upon a black bear cub sitting alone in the mud. Assuming the baby’s mother wasn’t far behind, Jonathan kept moving. However, the next day, he realized that he needed to intervene.
After Jonathan picked up the tree branch, the baby bear decided that the hiker was his new best friend.
“Once I freed him, he basically attached himself to me, so I walked a mile back to the cabin with the cub either right on my heels or clinging to my ankle,” he recalled.
Thankfully, Jonathan was able to find the cub, now called Blackie, a home at the West Sound Wildlife Shelter.
“Brave blackie is hydrated and eating, though they mentioned that the little guy was pretty small and stunted,” he wrote. “Folks at the wildlife center are too busy doing the good work to provide regular updates (they were pretty adamant about that), but they have my information, and say no news is good news . . . the plan is for re-wilding in a year or so . . .”
One of Jonathan’s biggest concerns was that his contact with the bear cub would make it difficult to rehabilitate him. Responding to comments on one of his posts, the author said, “for those beseeching me to pick him up, i was trying to limit my touch/human imprint, but eventually he broke down my walls and i held him . . . now, for the next year, the wildlife center will try to make him forget me and the family, which is how it ought to be.”
After a short period, the West Sound Wildlife Shelter moved Blackie to PAWS Animal Welfare Society. There, they introduced him to another orphan cub, and the two are becoming fast friends.
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Possums aren’t usually the first thing you picture when you think of cute animals. They’re generally seen as pesky rodents best known for playing dead or being roadkill.
But possums have their charm, too, and sometimes they can win people over and make their way into their hearts… and their homes.
In a post shared on Reddit, one man shared about how a wild possum became an unlikely housemate for his aunt. 
There are so many stray dogs out in the world, fending for themselves without any loving humans to go home to, so it’s always heartwarming to see people go out of their way to show these animals a little kindness.
Because stray dogs don’t have any shelter, it’s especially nice to see people protecting them from inclement weather, whether its severe heat or cold or just a rainy day.
Caroline met Murphy after he was rescued from a rough neighborhood in Philly. The poor pup was covered in scars. His trauma deeply impacted his perception of the world around him. Once he was brought into the shelter, he wouldn’t come out of his kennel. He didn’t trust a soul until this special woman entered his life.
Meet Angel and this is her story. Angel was purposely starved and on the brink of death. She was rescued in the nick of time. Her organs had begun to shut down. As you can see from her face, she is in pain, weak and afraid. Every bone on her body painfully showed.
The story of Malea, a charming dog heartlessly abandoned, is a stark reminder of the sometimes harsh treatment animals receive from their owners. Instead of being showered with love and care, she was callously left in a sweltering dumpster, her fate uncertain. 
It was something about her eyes that made Kristen Kuhlman take a second look at the rescue pit bull no one else seemed to want.
The mom-of-two from South Pasadena, California, has always favored animals that need a little extra love, especially those with physical differences that made them unadoptable to others. When she looked at photos of Strawberry the dog, she didn’t see the “flaw” that almost got the animal euthanized – she saw kind eyes and a tired soul.
It’s a harsh reality that people often play significant roles in the lives of animals, and while we have the choice to remain involved or not, helpless animals like Alberto do not. It’s disheartening that some individuals can mistreat or abandon animals. 
If you’ve never seen an Arctic Fox, you are missing out on something extraordinary. They are beautiful, but they can be challenging to spot because, as their name would suggest, they live in the mountains in the Arctic regions.
Hundreds of thousands of these beautiful animals are in the wild, so they aren’t in danger of extinction, according to National Geographic. Like any other type of fox, they are wild animals, so restrictions are placed on who can own them.
