Here’s an unlikely pairing:  An animal sanctuary in western Canada recently took in a 300-pound pig named Truffles, and he’s already got a buddy.  He’s become best friends with a chicken named Little Red that likes to ride around on his back.  He doesn’t seem to mind it.  Employees say they’re inseparable.

A cop in New York named Jared Desalvo saved a dog from the East River in March, and now she’s got a forever home.  The NYPD announced that after six weeks, no one came forward to claim the dog, so JARED adopted her.  He’s got two young kids, so it worked out great. Two cops in New Jersey showed up just in time to save a drowning dog from a backyard pool on…

A woman in Houston threw a quinceañera for her cat and ended up saving her local animal shelter.  Miranda Gonzalez spent a year planning her cat Holly’s 15th birthday, complete with a quinceañera dress and a mariachi band. A video of it has been all over TikTok, and she asked people to donate to a shelter called Almost Home Cat Haven.  It turned out they were looking at closing down.  But thanks to…