On a trip abroad to Thailand, Canadian traveler Meagan Penman spotted a paralyzed dog struggling to crawl cross the beach. Meagan instantly went to help the poor paraplegic, malnourished pup who had terrible wounds on his legs.

The dog had survived a terrible motorcycle accident, and whoever his owner was, did absolutely nothing to provide the dog with the medical care he so desperately needed.

She couldn’t find any rescues in Thailand who would take him in — but she knew if the dog didn’t get help soon he would die, maybe even right there on the sand.

Scroll down to see what Meagan did next…

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Meagan Penman is a Canadian model who traveled to Thailand for vacation.

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In Thailand, Meagan unexpectedly discovered a poor dog dragging his body across the beach. She took him to a local vet where X-Rays showed his spine was broken.

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Because of his extreme condition, no rescues in Thailand were willing to take the pup. So, Meagan vowed to find a way to bring him back home to Canada.

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Getting him overseas was no easy task, but thanks to many generous online donors, Meagan was able to raise the over $2,000 needed to help pay for the special needs pup’s trip.

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Leo’s story was so incredible he made the local news.

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Two months after his rescue, Leo was ready to head off to his new home.

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Even after a long flight, Leo was calm and happy.

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Due to her job and living situation, Meagan couldn’t take him in herself.

However, she was able to find him a foster home via Leo’s Facebook page with a wonderful woman named Jamie.



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Donations helped pay for Leo’s extensive vet bills and care.

K9 Carts, a pet mobility rehab center, helped him get his own doggie wheelchair so he could walk again.

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Leo adapted incredibly, in spite of the struggles he’s been through.

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He has undergone various operations for problems with his urinary tract, and until a solution is found…

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…he’s wearing diapers like a human baby.

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Leo had only weeks left to live, but human compassion reigned supreme and gave him a second shot at a long and happy life.

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Leo has already showed signs for the possibility of future mobility.

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The bumblebee has been officially added to the list of endangered species along with the gray wolf, grizzly bear, the northern spotted owl, and about 700 other extinct animal species.

According to National Geographic:

“The rusty-patched bumblebee (Bombus affinis), once a common sight, is “now balancing precariously on the brink of extinction,” according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Once thriving in 28 states and the District of Columbia, but over the past two decades, the bee’s population has plummeted nearly 90 percent. There are more than 3,000 bee species in the United States, and about 40 belong to the genus Bombus—the bumblebees.

Advocates for the rusty-patched bumblebee’s listing are abuzz with relief, but it may be the first skirmish in a grueling conflict over the fate of the Endangered Species Act under the Trump administration.”

According to James Stranger, a research entomologist, and Bumblebee ecologist:

“There are a few little spots where we know they are. But only a really few spots.”

The scientific name of the bee, Bombus affinis, was given due to the red patch in its abdomen. Even though the original listing date as an endangered species was set for February 2018, it was not until now that it was listed.

According to Xerces Society director of endangered species Sarah Jepsen:

“We are thrilled to see one of North America’s most endangered species receive the protection it needs. Now that the Fish and Wildlife Service has listed the rusty-patched bumble bee as endangered, it stands a chance of surviving the many threats it faces — from the use of neonicotinoid pesticides to diseases.”

According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service:

“Bumblebees are among the most important pollinators of crops such as blueberries, cranberries, and clover, and almost the only insect pollinators of tomatoes. The economic value of pollination services provided by native insects (mostly bees) is estimated at $3 billion per year in the United States.”

One of the main factors in the declining trend of its population was the human encroachment which led to the subsequent loss of their natural habitat. Therefore, this classification will protect the grasslands needed by these bees and other pollinators.

Rich Hatfield, a Xerces Society, a senior conservation biologist, says:

“While this listing clearly supports the rusty patched bumble bee, the entire suite of pollinators that share its habitat, and which are so critical to natural ecosystems and agriculture, will also benefit.

This is a positive step towards the conservation of this species, and we now have to roll up our sleeves to begin the actual on-the-ground conservation that will help it move toward recovery.”

Yet, it is a fact that this move brings about new challenges. The petition from American Petroleum Institute, National Association of Home Builders, National Cotton Council of America, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, and two entities to the Secretary of the Interior and Acting Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, aims at getting a year’s delay in the listing, since “the implications of this hasty listing decision are difficult to overstate. “

This petition goes on to deem the listing of this bee as “one of the most significant species listings in decades in terms of scope and impact on human activities.”

More than one-third of the plants grown in the United States depend on pollinators, and the population of this bee is drastically reduced due to the destruction of natural resources through monoculture and generous use of pesticides and herbicides on GMO crops. Hence, the opposition to the listing of this bee is counterproductive, since it is indeed an endangered pollinator.

Many people actually believe that such conservation efforts should have started sooner, and signed an agreement urging the listing of the rusty-patched bumble bee.

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On the heartbreaking circumstances that Dice would not have been discovered, he wouldn’t have made it. Thrown into a yard and left to die, the 3-year-old pit bull mix was fortunately found.

It was the children that alerted police officers when they were serving eviction notices in a neighborhood in Fort Lauderdale. In the cold of early November, Dice was in a cage outside an abandoned apartment.


“The tenants moved out and left him in the backyard in a crate with no food or water,” Tracey Godin, co-founder of Feeling Fine Rescue in Loxahatchee, Florida, told. “The police, of course, asked the children how long the dog had been there, and they said they thought he’d been there a week or more.”

But it’s possible that Dice had been left in such a heartbreaking state for a very long time.


“He was not fed properly for months,” Godin said. “The last week would have just been the final deterioration.”


Dice was transferred to a local shelter after police officers called animal control. It was Godin’s friend, who volunteers at the shelter, that snapped the pictures of Dice and sent it to her. Unsurprisingly, it deeply shocked and saddened her loving heart.




“It took your breath away,” Godin said. “I didn’t know how he was still alive. Tears immediately came to my face.”


The very next day, Godin, with her daughter, Micela, took her to the vet from the shelter.

“He couldn’t walk about 5 or 6 feet without falling,” Godin said. “We were in [the] parking lot at the vet, and when he took one step to get up on the sidewalk, he couldn’t hold his body weight up and just collapsed. I didn’t think he was going to live.”


“He was 30 pounds, but he should have been 65 pounds,” she added. “He was dehydrated and anaemic. You could see his skull — there was just no muscle mass in his body at all. His eyes were sunken in his head. In my opinion, if he had been in that cage another day, he would not have made it.”


Dice started living at Feeling Fine Rescue after he was considered healthy enough to leave the vet. Since the place is run by Godin and her daughter from their home, Dice’s rapid recovery left them both astounded.


“Within a week, he gained 10 pounds,” Godin said. “He was 40 pounds within one week. Two weeks later, he was 50 pounds, and by the weekend, he was 65 pounds. Basically every day, you could see a difference in the dog.”

The lovely doggie also started glowing with happiness, he smiled and laughed much more than when he was first brought in.


“It’s really incredible to see how a dog can go through so much at the hands of people, and … be immediately ready to love and trust new people,” Micaela Godin told.“From the minute we met Dice, he’s been the most loving dog. He has an amazing personality.”

Luck found him again, and in late December, a family with two dogs wanted to adopt him.

“They really fell in love with him the moment they saw him,” Tracey Godin said. “They came to visit him several times. They asked if they could do a meet-and-greet at their property with their two current dogs.”




Their first meeting went very well. Dice got along with both of their dogs and easily bonded with their two small children. Then he went on home with them on a foster-to-adopt basis two weeks later.

And in just a few days, the family wanted Dice with them forever.

“They called me last night and said, ‘We’re more in love with him than the moment we met him, and we would like to never bring him back,’” Tracey Godin said. “I was crying because this family is absolutely incredible … and I don’t think that Dice could have gone to a better home.”


Dice loves them just as much.
“The family is telling me they can’t believe how quickly he adjusted like he’s been there forever,” Tracey Godin said. “One [of the children] came home from school yesterday and said, ‘I’m so glad you’re here, Dice, you’re not going back to the rescue. I missed you so much when I was at school.’”

“We save a lot of dogs, and they all have stories, and they all come from such awful beginnings,” Micaela Godin said. “But Dice is resilient in how quick he was able to bounce back, and how gracefully he did it. He’s so lucky, and he’s strong to be able to make it through this, and to come out on the other side so quickly and so successfully. I would say that it was a miracle, for sure.”

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Love and friendship know no boundaries, and sometimes, it even seems that animals have a more developed sense of these things than humans.

Animals are simply amazing, and there are numerous examples of the love and compassion they can give. Some of them are even able to form strong social relationships and networks, even though numerous people remain skeptic about it.


Sometimes, animals become friends with other animals outside or their species, and in most cases, these situations are heart-breakingly adorable. Recently, a series of heartwarming images became viral on social media, which showed a compassionate goose who tried to help a shivering puppy on the street.

The puppy was abandoned by its mother shortly after birth, and since the weather was too cold, it was shivering when the goose found it. Yet, the goose did not lose time and quickly used its wings to protect it from the cold and to keep it warm.




The man who posted these photos on the Internet initially thought that the goose was going to attack the puppy, but as she started to pet it with the beak, he understood her true intentions. After a while, the puppy fell asleep in her embrace.

Soon after the man uploaded these photos, both, the goose and the puppy, were adopted together, so their friendship lasts in a home environment, and they are inseparable.

Such stories can teach us an important lesson, as we often forget about true values in life, and undervalue the power of love and empathy.

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