USA Pups Heaven

I found her in a forgotten alley, a place where the city’s refuse and its discarded souls seemed to congregate. She was a vision of neglect, her matted fur caked in mud,…

The diner was an island of dim light in the pre-dawn chill, the sky still a bruised and swollen purple. I unlocked the front door just as the first sharp rays of…

Me and my sister were on the way to my parents’ house when we had a terrible car accident and emergency services called our parents to the scene. As soon as they…

When Scarlett was first found, she wasn’t even called Scarlett. Her original name was Hulk—a name that didn’t reflect her fragile state or gentle spirit. She had been left behind after her…

The screen door clicked open. I was on my knees on her porch, a bundle of faded quilt in my arms. My mail satchel was tossed forgotten by the steps. The old…

I stepped between the officers and the little girl. Her tiny hand was clenched in the fur of her scruffy dog. “She’s just scared,” I said. My voice was rougher than I…

Anubis, a dog who once guarded a property in Cairo, endured unimaginable cruelty when his nose was cut off for doing his job. For years, he roamed the streets in silent suffering,…

“You seem… intense.” The words just hung there in the air between us, colder than the snow falling outside. He pushed his chair back, the sound a loud scrape against the floor….

The phone lit up with one word: Dad. I picked up, my heart doing a strange little jump. This was it. “I know you paid off the mortgage,” he said. No hello….

Juno was found as a tiny, shivering puppy, abandoned on a muddy street with severe injuries. His front paw and pelvis were fractured, and his ears and tail cruelly cut. Despite the…