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We recently rescued a puppy! It was found abandoned along the side of the road! Itty bitty puppy too, I can't imagine it was more than a few weeks old. Took a couple days but we found a good home for him.

We also saved a couple of kittens last year -- totally jet-black kitties, and Ginny saw someone THROW THEM OUT OF A CAR driving through the middle of Little Tokyo! She ran after them and wore herself out chasing them down, keeping them from getting run over, and scooping them up, and she was already feeling sick, so she very nearly passed out. (She described the experience in great detail: the color fading out of the world, everything sounds like you're hearing it from underwater, darkness creeping in around the edges of your vision...) We found someone to adopt one right away and found a good home for the other the next day.