Masha had no owner and no warm house of her own. The long-haired stray lived around an apartment building in Obninsk, Russia, where residents fed her, watched out for her, and allowed her to sleep in a cardboard box in the hallway. In the middle of a Russian winter, that little box was about as close to a home as she had. On January 10, 2015, someone else needed it more.
Five Trips Through the Smoke Flames were tearing through an abandoned Brooklyn building when firefighter David Giannelli saw something small moving through the smoke. A stray mother cat emerged carrying a kitten in her mouth, set the baby down outside, then turned toward the burning building again. She disappeared back inside before anyone could stop her. Minutes later, she came out with another kitten.
On May 13, 2014, four-year-old Jeremy Triantafilo was riding his bicycle outside his family’s home in Bakersfield, California. His mother, Erica, was nearby, and the family cat was somewhere around the house. A neighbor’s dog came around a parked vehicle and rushed toward Jeremy. It grabbed his leg and pulled him from the bicycle before … Read more