A firefighter in Buffalo, New York, ended up adopting a puppy after the injured animal was dropped off at his local fire station and needed a new home.
Rock, a German shepherd mix, was found wondering the streets. In less than a year, he's become a top narcotics K-9 at the Fort Worth Police Department in Fort Worth, Texas.
An Oklahoma boy with a precocious passion for marine biology adopted an octopus after years of begging. The octopus, named Terrance, recently had dozens of babies.