Cyclist rescues injured dog by carrying him on his back out of the woods

Jarrett Little was cycling with friends through a wooded area near Columbus, Georgia. When they stopped for a break, a dog limped out of the woods.

The dog had a broken leg and road rash. Plus, he was thin, so the cyclists surmised he'd been hit by a car some time earlier. They fed him and watered him from their own supplies, and talked about what to do from there. They couldn't get a car to this location - it was too remote. And they certainly couldn't leave the dog where they'd found him.

So Little put the dog on his back and cycled to the nearest town seven miles away. To stabilize the injured dog, he had to do some of the ride without using his hands.

They stopped at the town's bike shop to inquire about where to buy the dog some more food and water. Andrea Shaw, a Maine resident in Georgia for work, happened to be in the shop at the time. She had an instant connection to the dog and set about adopting him and caring for him. She found a vet, paid for the dog's care, and arranged for his transport to her farm in Maine. In honor of the place he was discovered, she named him Columbo and even started a Facebook page to document his adventures.

Columbo now has a forever home with Shaw, thanks to Little's willingness to piggyback him out of the woods. 

Bus driver stops to feed a stray dog every day for 2 years

A couple years ago, a Canadian bus driver spotted an emaciated stray digging through the trash. A volunteer with Feed the FurBabies Canada, the anonymous woman was touched. She returned to the site with a bag of dog food and offered it to the stray dog. He devoured it. The next day, she spotted the same dog waiting along her route, wagging his tail. She stopped her bus and tossed him another helping of dog food. The pattern was set.

Every day since then, the dog has waited for her bus. In all kinds of weather, tail wagging, he stays beside the road while she pulls up and stops the bus. When she opens the door and tosses the bag of food, he grabs it in his teeth and hurries off.

The local animal shelter does not have enough room to house all the area's strays. There aren't enough foster homes for them either. Even so, this woman saw something she could do to help this dog. And she's done it every day for the last 2 years.