Best Of Patch 2019: Pet And Animal Stories From Across America

At Patch, we’re like everyone else in terms of how much we love our pets. We fret when they’re lost. We rescue them when they’re abandoned or hurt. Sometimes, they teach us. And occasionally, we’re lucky enough to get video of our pets doing things that perfectly encapsulate why they occupy such a special place in our families.

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It’s not just companion animals that bring bring comfort and joy to our lives. Patch readers appreciate all kinds of animals.

Here is a sampling of the volume of pet and animal stories you’ll find on Patch’s more than 1,200 hyperlocal community news sites across America:

Therapy Llamas’ Delight Pleasanton High School Students: These easy-to-love creatures helped some students unleash their “llama energy” while celebrating “Love Week” at a California school, via Pleasanton Patch.

What Kids Learn From A Blind And Deaf Dog Named Piglet: Piglet, a pastel pink puppy that can’t see or hear, is opening eyes and ears around the world with messages of kindness, inclusion and acceptance, via Westport Patch.

The blind and deaf pink puppy Piglet weighed about the same as four sticks of butter when veterinarian Dr. Melissa Shapiro agreed to foster him. (Photo courtesy of Dr. Melissa Shapiro)

Video: 2 Tough Old Birds Snare Mountain Lion In Potty: Kathy and Edward Sudduth, 87 and 84, didn’t flinch when they got a quizzical “who me?” look from a mountain lion they found curled up in their bathroom, via Sacramento Patch.

Maggie Sent Home After Burglary Adventure: No one really knows why a loveable bulldog named Maggie went along on burglaries across the country — and was a central figure in a Florida burglary spree — but she’s back home in California, via Sarasota Patch.

Maggie was reunited with her California owner this week following a four-year cross-country adventure that included a burglary spree in Florida. (Photo courtesy of Sarasota Police Department)

Dog Finds Philly Forever Home After Miraculous Series Of Events: A string of random events led a Philadelphia couple to take in a malnourished dog recently, in what could only be described as a miracle, via Philadelphia Patch.

Below are more local Patch stories we think you’ll enjoy.

Must-See Animal Videos

Video: Colorado Bear Caught Stealing Dumpster From Pot ShopVideo: Goat Grabs Broomstick To ‘Help’ Sweep SanctuaryVideos Show Monster Great White Shark On Point Pleasant BeachVideo: Seagull Photobombs Tourist, Steals $21.50 Lobster RollVideo: Dog Fights Off Bear In Back YardVideo: First Gray Whale Of Season ‘Spout-ed’ In South Orange County

Puppy Dog Tales

Beans, The Deaf Surfing Whippet, Rides Final Wave Into RetirementFlorida’s 4-Legged Driver Gets Behind Wheel, Makes Cops DizzyK-9 Charlie Helps Track Down A Missing GirlDogs’ Tail Art Raises Thousands For Shelter PetsDog Adopted After Nearly 3 Years Of Shelter LifeIn Final Act Of Service, Dogs Watched Owner’s Body, Now Have New Homes

Beans, a deaf Whippet and one-time International Surf Dog Championship winner, has retired. (Photo courtesy of City of Monrovia)

Interspecies Friendships

Bear Kept Him Safe, Says Boy, 3, Lost In North Carolina WoodsA Girl And Her Duck Have Formed An Inseparable Interspecies Bond

Lived To Bark, Meow, Bleat, Quack Again

Cat Rescued After Hitching A RideDog Rescued After Jumping Into Swift WaterCat Back Home After Roaming 5 Years From Oregon To New MexicoThrown Out Car Window And Trapped In SUV Engine, Kitty Finds Home200 Goats Flood Issaquah Highlands NeighborhoodShaking’ Caged Dog Rescued From Illinois LakeMama Duck, Ducklings Spared From Freeway Traffic

Mechanic Thomas Sheene cradles a kitten that became trapped in an SUV engine compartment after she was thrown from a moving vehicle. (Photo courtesy of Tire Kingdom)

Beautiful, Wild And Unpredictable

Ants Invade Flight; Newark Passenger Tweets Play-By-PlayBig Bear Makes Himself At Home, Twice, In YardOpossum Bumped From Flight Finally HomeGeorgia Man Likely Breaks State Record For Largest Gator Captured9 Rattlesnakes Found Living In Georgia HomeApril The Giraffe Gives Birth: LivestreamPhotos: Baby Rhino Born At Zoo MiamiBears ‘Carjack’ Barber’s Car In Smoky Mountains VacationSo, A Likely Pregnant Moose Wandered Into A Hospital In Alaska

An alligator Derrick Snelson caught was 14 feet long, likely a Georgia state record. (Photo courtesy of Derrick Snelson)

Old MacDonald’s Farm

Pepper, The Miniature Horse, Dances To ‘Frosty The Snowman’Rescued From Slaughter, Mini Horse Makes Birthday Boy’s DayThis Kid Got Vermont Town’s Goat In First Mayoral Election

Miniature horse Saphira was set for slaughter before being rescued. She helped to save a little boy’s birthday with a surprise visit. (Photo courtesy of Rachel Miner Dyer)