A disabled pensioner who travelled 130 miles in his wheelchair to propose to his girlfriend had to be rescued by police after his offer was rejected.

The 67-year-old travelled across Germany from Minden to Salzwedel, using just his arms to propel the chair, in a four-day journey. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

A man has been rescued after he spent nearly a week chained to a tree in a mountain forest near Vancouver in what police believe was a failed suicide attempt. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

A newborn piglet was rescued from an untimely death on the road -- and the slaughterhouse -- when a driver found it in central England. Staffers there said they believe it was born in a truck that was hauling its mother and then rolled off. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

After 10 months of rowing alone across the vast Pacific Ocean, eating only dried food and with nothing but emails from fans for company, Alex Bellini was rescued by a tugboat, just 65 nautical miles from his destination. picked by jhordie 1 year ago

An animal protection group on Friday rescued more than 200 animals, including 26 hissing cockroaches and two bearded dragons, from an eastern Texas home. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

These tiny newborn hedgehogs are proving a handful for carers at a rescue centre - after the mild weather triggered a string of early orphaned arrivals.

See their cute pictures. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

A dozen Asiatic black bears, malnourished and diseased from years spent on abusive bile-harvesting farms in southwest China, were recovering Saturday after being handed over to an animal charity group. The Animals Asia Foundation took in the bears from state-approved farms where holes were cut in their abdomens so that their bile could drip out to be harvested and used in Chinese traditional medi... read full post picked by suebe 1 year ago

Struggling in frigid temperatures a horse named Beau floated in an old spring well for about four hours on Friday. His owner, Linda Smiley, watched helplessly as rescue workers tried to pull the four-year-old horse from the icy water. She was visibly shaken as she talked about her family's horse. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

It was late last year when a security guard at Belmont Park in New York saw the dog get hit by a car on Hempstead Turnpike. It then scurried on to the grounds. It stayed in the infield and survived. picked by suebe 1 year ago

The exhausted woman was clinging to a buoy offshore from the beach at Mahia on the east coast of the North Island as the dolphin swam around her and prevented her returning to shore, the Gisborne Herald reported.

*Playful? picked by kakana 8 months ago

Perched inside an aviary in Exeter is the luckiest budgerigar in the world.

The budgie is the survivor of a dramatic sea rescue that took place half a mile off the South Devon coast, where it had been bobbing between the waves on the brink of death. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

A horse trapped for six days in a ravine in the Santa Ana Mountains has been freed, with the help of a rescue helicopter. Story with earlier details picked by suebe 1 year ago

She was stuck for five days and still survived. Good deal. picked by moe 2 years ago

Nine cubs, adult and tiger had been in decaying Romanian zoos.

The picture tells it all really... picked by bevissimo 2 years ago

The animal spent 8 years shut up in a darkened room and was unable to walk picked by nateebiinature 8 months ago

A seal pup snagged in fishing line at the Children’s Pool in La Jolla is swimming free. As the seal grew, the net was in danger of choking it. But federal law protecting seals prohibited good samaritans from setting the pup free. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Big Lake, Alaska, resident Randy Richards and his family didn't take it lying down when an Alaska state trooper suggested a baby moose they rescued should be shot. More information at link in article. picked by suebe 10 months ago

80-year-old man barks like a dog to get rescued from his collapsed septic tank. picked by jhordie 5 months ago

The three man crew of a specially eco-refitted yacht, had to be rescued from hurricane force gales on the outward leg of a voyage billed as the "Carbon Neutral Expedition" and designed to raise awareness of green issues. Their rescuer? An oil-tanker delivering 680,000 barrels of crude picked by tigertony 10 months ago

Hundreds of people have been arrested and 21 children rescued in what the FBI is calling a five-day roundup of networks of pimps who force children into prostitution.
The Justice Department says it targeted 16 cities as part of its "Operation Cross Country" that caps off five years of similar stings nationwide. picked by bingo 2 years ago