Category: Feel-Good Stories

Peanut was just two months old when he arrived at Pasadena Humane with a dislocated jaw and almost no nose left. His recovery became a community effort.

Maisy the Staffordshire bull terrier was just bounding across the moors when the ground gave way. What happened next took a small army to fix.

Molly Selin, 27, struck up a conversation with an 81-year-old stranger on a train home from Spain. Neither expected where it would lead.

Royal Cothrun wasn’t looking for anything unusual on his bike ride through Gilbert, Arizona — until he spotted Theresa Morgan, disoriented and miles from home.

Timmy couldn’t move his hind legs when he arrived. Weeks of surgery and physical therapy later, his recovery helped power one shelter’s biggest fundraiser of the year.

Jimmy Darts built 28 million followers by handing strangers life-changing cash. On Independence Eve, the cameras finally turned the surprise back on him.

Bob Weihe had missed only one Derby in his lifetime. A viral video and Churchill Downs made sure hospice care wouldn’t cost him a 80th.

Lissette Garcia started her degree in 2018. Her son Jason started his in 2023. This spring, they walked across the same stage — together.