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If there is anyone who questions a dog's intelligence, this will convince you otherwise.

Marina Tarashevsce, an animal rescue worker in Dallas, has been trying to catch a stray dog for weeks. Then the dog wouldn't stop barking last week, and she noticed he wasn't with a female dog he usually ran around with. So she and another dog trainer went to investigate.

Several Florida manatees got stuck in a storm drain in Satellite Beach, Fla., on Monday night. The story is fascinating!

Firefighters in California last week rescued a dog that got a little overzealous when chasing a squirrel.

Gerald Whitman, of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, is a lucky man.

What would you endure to save your pet? This man jumped into a frozen river to save his dog, breaking through the ice with his hands as he forged across every inch of the way.

Here is another example of an incident that starts off sad because it involves harm to an animal, but has a happy ending.

Otters are adorbs. Sea otter pups are extra adorbs. And when you throw in that the sea otter pup is an orphan, well that just throws in all the awwww you could ever need.

Reza Baluchi is an endurance runner. However, he must have figured that running long distances the old-fashioned way was boring, so he wanted to amp it up a bit.

Add this one to the "unlikely animal friends" category.

Walking through heavy snow during winter can suck just by itself. But what if while you were walking through heavy snow and were then attacked by a pack of wild dogs?!? Talk about random and crazy.

You may use social media to check up on people, or even to post statuses about yourself. But did you know that it could be used to save an animal's life that's in need of immediate help?