Brooklyn police officers found an adorable, orphaned kitten at their station house and they wanted to keep him. 

Martin, the 6-month-old tabby is now the officers’ collective pet, precinct mascot, and morale-booster, according to the New York Post. He is enjoying his life in Coney Island at the 60th precinct, and hopefully enjoying some Nathan’s, cotton candy, and riding the Cyclone. 

“He’s definitely lifted spirits. There’s not one person here, cop or civilian, that doesn’t adore this cat,” said Deputy Inspector William Taylor. Martin was left at the precinct on West 8th Street and Surf Avenue back in December, and ever since then, he’s melted hearts of New York’s toughest men. 

Taylor agreed to let the furball in one condition- someone else cleans his litter box. Officers pitched in to get Martin his necessary shots, and have him neutered and micro-chipped, according to the Brooklyn Paper. 

Every day Martin makes an appearance at roll call to inspect everyone. “He cheers me up. The guys come by and get a chuckle out of him, the ones who are having a hard day,” Taylor said.

Martin also has three food stations around the precinct, plenty of toys and his own special wire baskets for napping, so it’s safe to say he’s very well taken care of. “He has the run of the precinct,” Taylor said. “He took control of the place right away.”

The positive effects that an office pet can have on employees and overall productivity are incredible. While it’s not advisable to spend the entire day tending to an office pet, just a couple of minutes here and there can take the stresses of the day away. 

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William, a greyhound-saluki cross, was described as the thinnest dog ever by one of the RSPCA inspectors who rescued him. 

When William was found in September 2015, he weighed only 3.2kg instead of a healthy 10kg, according to Mirror.co.uk. 

He was so frail that when the RSPCA rescuer found him he had to be carried around in a towel. William was dehydrated and like a skeleton when brought to the RSPCA’s Coventry branch. He was found lying in his own feces and urine. 

When a woman named Rachel Butler, who was the charity’s press officer wrote a release appeal for information about William’s owners, she fell in love with the dog upon seeing his photos. Butler went to take a look at William and he licked her on her nose. 

It was love at first sight for Butler and she convinced her soon-to-be husband Chris Mallett that the pup would be a great companion for their 11-year-old West Highland terrier, Harry. 

“When William moved in he was very innocent but as the weeks went on he started to build up his confidence. Then one day he sneaked up ­towards me, pulled my slipper off my foot and ran away with it. We loved seeing his cheeky side come out,” Butler said. 

William came into the couple’s lives just in time to celebrate their wedding with them and he even walked Butler down the aisle. Dressed in a tweed collar and bow tie, the adorable dog stole the show! “When he was brought into the RSPCA’s care he was close to death. But on our wedding day his tail did not stop wagging,” Butler said. 

“He is very confident these days and he makes us laugh every day,” she continued. William is now nearly two and weighs a healthy 23kg.

As far as William’s previous owners, they were found and charged. They admitting to causing unnecessary suffering to William and they are banned from keeping animals for life. 

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One Houston woman had the scare of her life when her two cats disappeared while she was at work. 

Natalie Pradia assumed her cats had wandered off or she feared the worse- that someone may have stolen them. Pradia checked her surveillance video and the last time she saw her tabby cats, Ginger and Zelda pop up on the screen was at 10:30 am. It seemed they had vanished. 

“I come home from work. Rewind the cameras. Slow it down,” Pradia tells ABC 13. “Skip forward. Go backwards. The cats just seem like they poof, just disappeared. You never see them leaving the apartment. You see the last movement and visual on them at 10:31am.”

Pradia and her family searched for the cats for hours outside their southeast Houston apartment but they had no luck. “I hear meow, meow. They both have bells, so I’m hearing their bells. I’m hearing one cat scratch, which I know is Zelda because she loves to scratch anything,” said Pradia. I’m hearing it in the floor of my front porch, which is behind the stairs.”

She knew there was no place else the cats could but except in the walls. When investigating further, it turns out a maintenance worker entered Pradia’s apartment to do bathroom work, and surveillance video showed him entering and leaving the home many times. 

His job entailed cutting into the wall over the bathtub as he worked to replace tiles, and Pradia and apartment management suspect the cats climbed into the open hole when the maintenance worker left. Once he returned to seal up the wall, Ginger and Zelda were trapped.

The following morning, crews cut into a ceiling and Pradia retrieved her loving cats. She says she had to use a can of treats to entice the cats out. “I shook it, and two little heads popped down. It was my orange tabby and my black tabby,” said Pradia.

Pradia adds that while cats have nine lives, Ginger and Zelda likely lost two during his wall fiasco. Now that the cats are out of the walls, they seem to be a bit tired but are doing well. 

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When mom-of-one Sarah Pickles discovered she had breast cancer in 2014, she was prepared to do anything to survive even if it meant destroying all chances of ever becoming a mother again.

“I knew from the day I was diagnosed that I had two options, either I was going to let the cancer control me or I was going to control it,” Pickles said. “For me dying was not an option, it was just not, I had to do everything I could to get me through it.”

Pickles underwent chemotherapy that removed all seven tumors and had a double mastectomy to drastically reduce the risk of her cancer returning. In 2015, Pickles was told she was finally cancer free, but the life-saving treatment meant she’d never have more kids. “Percentage-wise, we were told that the chances of us getting pregnant after chemotherapy was probably about 1 percent. Even when we went to the IVF clinic they said that it was about 1 percent that even IVF would work.”

However, this past year Pickles started having back pain and was terrified the cancer had returned. She immediately rushed to the hospital for a scan, but when the staff noticed a shadow near her spine, they had her take a pregnancy test. “She asked if I thought I was pregnant – I said no, definitely not I can’t get pregnant,” Pickles said. “Ten minutes later she came back in with a pregnancy test that I had done and I think she was a bit scared to tell me because of what I had said to her but she eventually said, ‘you’re pregnant’.”

“I didn’t know what to say. I had gone from having these tests and getting reassurance that everything was ok to this. My husband was half way up Everest base camp at the time, leading an expedition, when I told him. So he was there and I was here, four weeks pregnant with this miracle pregnancy. It was just meant to be,” said Pickles, who is due to give birth to her miracle baby boy in just a few weeks. “After what we’ve been through together, it’s just perfect.”

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Jamacio Kimble refused to let the terrible car crash that put him in the hospital get in the way of proposing to his girlfriend on the eve of their anniversary. 

According to the Sun, Jamacio had plans to propose to his girlfriend, Kayla King earlier that day, but instead he found himself in the hospital after a terrible storm left his car spinning. 

Jamacio was on his way to pick up flowers before popping the question when the weather took a turn for the worse. After driving off the road, he ended up with a pole through his car’s windscreen and was rushed to the hospital. 

When Kayla found out her boyfriend had been involved in an accident, she rushed to the emergency room at Sweetwater Hospital, Tennessee. At this point, they learned Jamacio was lucky enough to not have any series injuries and he decided he was still going to ask the girl of his dreams to marry him.

“If you look at the car, the pole was in my front seat and passenger seat, and I could have died on my way to ask the girl of my dreams to marry me,” Jamacio told WBIR. “I was like ‘I could have died not asking that, so while I have breath, I’m going to ask that,’” he continued. 

With the help of his friends and hospital staff, Jamacio got down on one knee and asked Kayla to be his wife. The heartwarming footage of the proposal has since gone viral after it was shared online by Jamacio’s sister Sidney. 

Of course, Kayla said yes and gushed on Twitter about how happy she was! 

This was so perfect♥️ I can’t wait for our whole life together???? but for now we will just lay in bed and wait for you to get better☺ https://t.co/mHBRohoc6A

— Kayla Brooke (@kbk0811) March 2, 2017

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After Terrible Car Crash, Man Proposes To His Girlfriend In The Hospital is an article from: LifeDaily

A tiny Chi-weenie dog named Trixxie almost had her life ripped away from one morning fateful. 

Back in 2010, Trixxie was put out on a chain to take care of her business while her owner stayed inside. She was only outside for a few minutes when a coyote ambushed Trixxie. The pooch tried to run back toward the house, but the coyote was too fast and immediately grabbed hold of her and tried to take off. 

Thankfully, the next door neighbor’s rottweiler was outside and saw what happened. In no time at all, the dog named Happy sprung into action and ran over to Trixxie to save her from the coyote. 

Finally, he got the coyote to drop Trixxie, and she was able to run to safety. Trixxie only suffered a few puncture wounds, and her owner says she is far less traumatized by the event than he and his wife were. 

We think it’s safe to safe, Trixxie’s owners will not be allowing her outside alone again. They are, however, eternally grateful to Happy whose quick-thinking and natural instincts to protect saved Trixxie’s life. 

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After witnessing a terrifying accident, most people would do the safe thing, and call the police and wait for help to arrive. But when one South Carolina fisherman saw a car drive off a marina and into a river, he didn’t hesitate to save them no matter what it might cost him.

“You have to react. You don’t want anything like that to happen on your watch. I was here for a reason,” said DJ Nance, who was fishing on a dock nearby a little after midnight when he saw the car accidentally drive off the Wacca Wache Marina and crash into the water.

Nance didn’t see any movement from the water, so dove in and swam to the car, which Haley Morris and Kate Henry were trapped inside. The two were driving home from the gym but were forced to take an unfamiliar road since their usual route was blocked off when the dark and foggy conditions caused them to accidentally drive into the water.

Morris and Henry couldn’t open their doors and were convinced they were about to die when Nance appeared out of nowhere and managed to open the door and pulled Morris out. “Whenever he grabbed a hold of me, I just looked at Kate and she was saying, ‘please don’t leave me, please, please don’t leave me’ and I said, ‘I’m not, I’m not, he’s going to get you out too I promise,” said Morris.

Nance then dove back under as the car was almost entirely submerged and dragged Henry out. Nance then pulled the two women to the dock, where they were all able to rest. “He was laying on the dock, and Haley and I were kind of like patting him and saying ‘you saved us, you saved us’,” said Henry. “Without him, we wouldn’t be here. He really did save our lives.”

“Even though it was very scary, I’m very thankful. I don’t want to look at the negative, I look at it as a way for us to restart our life and live life to the fullest and we’re just one big family now,” said Morris.

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In emergency situations, people credit adrenaline for giving them the strength to do the impossible, but one Idaho little boy is crediting angels for giving him the strength to save his father’s life.

Nine-year-old J.T. Parker had been outside in the backyard working on a car with his dad Stephen and his now 18-year-old brother, Mason, late last year when the car suddenly fell on Stephen as he tried to adjust the car’s axle. Mason had just gone inside after cutting his hand, so Stephen’s life was left solely in the hands of his 50-pound little boy.

“My 8-year-old son and I were the only two out there. I was totally trapped. He was on the other side of the car so he couldn’t even see me,” Stephen said. “I didn’t know if I should yell out to him because I didn’t want him to feel the pressure if he couldn’t jack it up. I didn’t want him to think it was his fault if I died.”

Under the immense weight of the car, Stephen started to lose consciousness. “I wasn’t there anymore because I had this nice calm peaceful feeling,” Stephen recalled. But before passing out, Stephen managed to call out to J.T. to jack up the car.

Originally, it had taken the strength of both Stephen and Mason to jack the car up, so it should have been impossible for the nine-year-old boy to lift the car. Yet J.T. miraculously jacked the car up off his father within 15 minutes. “It was scary, and I didn’t think that I could jack the car up, but I just kept on trying,” said J.T., who jumped up and down on the jack handle.

Stephen was then airlifted to the hospital to treat his broken bones and the rest of his injuries, but he knows he is alive today thanks to J.T., who explained that angels helped him that day. “I was amazed,” Stephen said. “I was like, ‘How could this happen?’ I was like it had to be help from above. It made me realize that we are not alone. There is a higher power taking care of us and watching over us.”

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50-Pound Little Boy Lifted A Car That Fell On His Dad is an article from: LifeDaily

During one U.S. Green Beret soldier’s 23-year career in the military, he’s taken part in numerous tours around the world and countless secret missions.

But Master Sergeant Rusty Newton just completed the most important secret mission of his life this past weekend when he successfully proposed to his girlfriend and then became her husband within one hour. “Will you marry me?,” Newton asked. “Yeah, today though? Like today, right now today?” his stunned girlfriend Ashley Lohmueller said in response. “Yep, it’s all set up. News 13 we’re doing this!” Newton said.

Lohmueller always knew she wanted to marry Newton, but never imagined it would happen just minutes after getting engaged. She also always imagined she’d have to do most of the wedding planning, but Newton took care of everything even though he was deployed almost halfway around the world.

While deployed, Newton sent money to friend Kim McNeal, who helped pick the venue and bought the rings. “It was terrifying. I was, it felt like I needed a security guard or something,” McNeal said. But all his hard work paid off when Lohmueller said yes to the crazy plan. “It’s awesome my son is truly a romantic,” said Carol Newton, the groom’s mother.

Minutes after the couple got engaged, family and friends started arriving as Lohmueller got changed into her wedding dress. Soon after, Newton and Lohmueller said their vows and were officially husband and wife. “I’m glad she said yes. Pressure’s off whew!” Newton said. “It worked perfectly, surprise!”

Watch the entire video below to see the amazing moment this soldier pulls off a surprise proposal and wedding.

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Many pregnant women spend the months leading up to their due date planning out exactly how they’ll give birth, however, as many mothers know, babies rarely stick to the plan.

Like other mothers, U.K. mom Chantelle Edmund knew exactly how she wanted to welcome her second baby into the world. “I was going to have a planned water birth at HRI with my mum as my birth partner – but it didn’t happen like that.”

However, baby Eva Rai didn’t stick with her mother’s plan and decided to be born two weeks before her due date on March 10. The 26-year-old thought there was still some time before the birth, but had no choice but to call her eight-year-old daughter Keira Jade and her nine-year-old niece Ellie-Main, who had been upstairs watching a movie, down to help when she suddenly started having contractions at about 10 p.m.

The two young girls stayed amazingly calm and brought towels and water to Chantelle, and just 35 minutes later, baby Eva Rai was born. Keira then called an ambulance for her mother, and told the handler “My mum has just had an alien on the floor!”

“Until a few weeks ago, she thought they were born through a magic door in my tummy,” Chantelle said about Keira, who was understandably shocked to find out how babies are really born.  “Now she is besotted with the baby. She loves her little sister – and Keira’s the talk of the school.”

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8-Year-Old Delivers Baby Sister After Mom Went Into Labor is an article from: LifeDaily

The moment a baby comes into the world is a life-changing moment for first-time parents, and it’s a moment one Georgia soldier refused to miss.

“Being in the army, you never really know what major life experiences you are going to be a part of, and the ones you are going to miss. It is not uncommon for a soldier to miss the birth of his child. Every time a unit comes home, you will always see a big sign that says ‘I HAVE WAITED MY WHOLE LIFE TO MEET YOU’ with a mom and a young baby in her arms,” Army Sergeant Zach Shryock said.

Zach was crushed that he might miss the birth of his first child with wife Brittany after being deployed to Afghanistan just a few months into the pregnancy. Originally, he was supposed to arrive home a month after the due date, but was thrilled when he found out he was being sent home five weeks before Brittany was due to give birth.

However, as Zach started his long journey home from Afghanistan stopping in Kuwait, Turkey, Germany, Baltimore, Charlotte, Chicago, and Kansas, Brittany’s water broke five weeks ahead of schedule. Zach heard the news minutes before he was supposed to board the next leg of his trip from Charlotte, and booked a ticket for the next flight to Atlanta.

By the time Zach’s plane took off for Atlanta, Brittany was already dilated to 10 centimeters, but miraculously managed to get to the hospital just in time and was greeted by employees lining the hallway with balloons to Brittany. “The Piedmont hospital was amazing! Everyone came and cheered me on as I got out of the car, giving me the best welcoming home I have ever received in my life!” And the moment only got better when Zach saw his pregnant wife for the first time. “I have not seen my wife in six months, and seeing her for the first time – laying on the bed and getting ready to have our daughter, Myra – my heart stopped. I have never seen anyone more beautiful in my life. She did, in fact, take my breath away. At that moment, I have never seen anyone so perfect in my life,” he said.

“When I heard everyone clapping and yelling in the hallway, my eyes filled with tears. I knew my husband had made it home. It seemed like a dream when I saw him walk through the door. After a hug and a welcome home kiss from him, I have never been more motivated in my life,” Brittany said.

“All of the hospital staff was in tears. He was able to see and feel my pregnant belly for a few moments before it was time to push,” Brittany said. 30 minutes later, baby Myra made it safely into the world with her father right by her side.

“When she was laying on me after birth, he asked her if she wanted her name to be Myra. She picked up her head, looked straight at him, and then put her head back down on my chest. He made it from across the world to welcome his firstborn child into the world.”

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Soldier Races Home From Afghanistan When Wife Goes Into Labor is an article from: LifeDaily

As millions around the world patiently wait for April the Giraffe to give birth, a pregnant woman in South Carolina decided to live stream her own waiting game. 

Erin Dietrich, of Myrtle Beach, S.C., is 39 weeks pregnant and due with her fourth child any day now. 

She told ABC 7 Chicago she, like many other moms, has become “obsessed” with watching April the Giraffe, so her husband suggested ordering a giraffe mask on Amazon so they could recreate the scene when Dietrich goes into labor. When the mask arrived on Sunday night, they decided to try it out for their friends on Facebook live. 

In the video, Dietrich does her best April impression and paces around her bedroom, stretching and dancing, just like April. 

Dietrich’s video quickly went viral and less than 24 hours after she posted, it received more than 15 million views. “We were not expecting this at all!” Dietrich said. “Now we might have to do this every night!”

Dietrich plans to film an update when her son, Porter Lane arrives, and he is due on March 14. 

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Animal Adventure Park posted April the giraffe’s latest update this morning, saying, “April had a very active night that did keep us glued to the cam screen!”

Footage of April can be seen on Animal Adventure Park’s website or Facebook page.

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Pregnant Woman’s Hilarious April The Giraffe Impression Goes Viral is an article from: LifeDaily

A woman in Washington State is sharing a heartbreaking apology note left on her door by a young boy.

Chrissy Marie Reitz posted a photo of the note and a $5 bill that was left with it on her Facebook page last Friday. The note reads: “I am sorry that we stold [sic] your windchime our mom died and liked butterflies so my sister took it to put it by our window I am sorry this is only money I have please do not be mad at us. Jake.”

Reitz added that she certainly wasn’t mad at Jake for taking her windchime and she even offered for Jake to come back so that she can return his money and give him another windchime for his sister. “Well Jake, I not sure who you are but you can come get your money back sweetie. I had 3 of those windchimes,” she wrote.

In a separate post on Facebook, Reitz shared that she lost her own mom when she was only 5-years-old, and if she finds Jake, she will “give him his money without embarrassing or scaring him.”

Reitz said she asked her property manager who owns other houses in the area if she knew anyone by the name of Jake, but she didn’t. She also said there are several schools in the area and a bus stop right in front of her house. 

“That little butterfly apparently meant a lot to him and his little sister and he did try to do the right thing so I forgive him,” Reitz said. Reitz even decided to set up a special Facebook page dedicated to finding Jake and posting updates. You can visit Jake’s Butterfly by clicking here.

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A video of two young New Jersey brothers spinning pizza dough has gone viral on social media. 

More than 19 million people have watched a video of 12-year-old Michael and 10-year-old Nicholas Testa spinning pizza dough. Their father, Carmine Testa, said this isn’t the first video he’s posted of his spinning dough in Carmine’s Pizza Factory in Jersey City, but it is the most popular. 

Testa appeared on Fox & Friends and explained that his boys started going to work with him to allow their mom to care for their colicky baby sister. 

Testa tells Fox that he has owned and operated Carmine’s Pizza Factory in downtown Jersey City for 17 years. To occupy his sons at the restaurant, he gave them a couple of rubber practice doughs and as soon as the boys taught themselves how to toss and spin, they were given real pizza dough to maneuver. 

When Testa uploaded the 30-second clip of his sons in front of the counter at the restaurant flinging around practice dough, he wasn’t expecting the video to go viral! 

The boys’ video was enough to score them a cameo on Good Day New York, and the offers from various other media outlets keep pouring in. 

Michael and Nicholas told Fox & Friends that to prepare for all of their appearances, they have been practicing spinning dough for 1.5 hours a day. They say it’s more fun than doing homework, and we have to agree. 

Watch these talents pizza boys in the video, and click below to see their Instagram and Facebook pages! 

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Little Boys Are Breaking The Internet Due To Their Impressive Pizza Tossing Skills is an article from: LifeDaily

Losing a child is one of the most painful, heartbreaking things a parent can ever experience. After losing her own baby, one Utah mom decided to try and keep it from happening to other parents whose babies are struggling to survive in the NICU.

During her fifth month of pregnancy, 28-year-old Nicura Thompson found out that her unborn son had seven different heart defects. Despite the health challenges he faced, Thompson was able to carry him to full term, and he seemed amazingly healthy.

“He was born full term. He came home at a week old and he wasn’t on oxygen,” Thompson said. “Unfortunately, a couple weeks into his stay at home, he started having [breathing] trouble.” Baby Colton eventually went into cardiac arrest and passed away on Thompson’s 28th birthday on December 28th.

“Two days before he passed away I knew I wanted to donate breast milk,” said Thompson. “It’s my way of honoring my son.” Thompson pumps breast milk four times each day and freezes the milk in a freezer until there’s no room left. So far, Thompson has donated 4,000 ounces of her breast milk to the Mountain West Milk Bank to go to other babies in the NICU who desperately need their strength to survive.

“It’s hard giving my milk away because it was supposed to be for my baby, but it’s going away to other babies who need it, so it’s worth it,” Thompson said. “I will go as long as my body lets me. I just know how important breast milk is to other babies who are in the ICU. I just wanted something to come out of it.”

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Mom Donates Over 30 Gallons Of Breast Milk After Baby Died is an article from: LifeDaily

Pit bulls still have an unfortunate reputation for being aggressive, violent, and dangerous in our society. So when a young boy and his mother were found with bite marks, the local police automatically assumed their pet pit bull had attacked them.

However, police have just discovered that the dog isn’t dangerous, but a brave hero. Last week, an Australian mother, whose identity cannot be released, had brought her nine-year-old and 5-year-old sons down to the Murray River where she forced them to go under water and tried to drown them both.

Tragically, the five-year-old boy drowned while his mother held him beneath the surface, but the older son managed to pull free and tried to escape up the river. Buddy the pit bull was nearby and raced over when he heard the struggle and dragged the boy out of the water and defended him from his mother.

“Buddy doesn’t have a history of being a dangerous dog and most certainly hasn’t ever bitten anyone and has never been seized before for anything,” his owner said in a petition after the police wrongly assumed Buddy had attacked the family and threatened to put him down. “Buddy is a member of our family and has grown up around children his whole life and has been the most gentlest dog, he has clearly seen a child in distress and attempted to help, dogs don’t have hands to help like us humans they have to use their teeth and in doing so it’s being portrayed as this dog has attacked the young boy.”

Incredibly, over 50,000 people signed the petition to save Buddy, including the 9-year-old’s grandfather. “I own a similar dog and I know he was trying to save the boys, it’s their nature when they are raised with kids. Let the ones who his actions affected decide. I have one grandson left because this brave dog took action as required,” the boy’s grandfather said about Buddy. Since then, he has now returned home while the mother faces murder and attempted murder charges.

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Pitbull Saves Little Boy After Mother Tried To Drown Him is an article from: LifeDaily

No parent expects to be called a hero for attending their child’s soccer game, but one California mom is being hailed a hero by her own son after she single-handedly saved his life.

“She’s a giver and she’s really smart and she doesn’t give up,” said Jose Agredano Jr., a 16-year-old a sophomore at San Benito High School in Hollister, California, about his mother, Dr. Gina Agredano. And when her son nearly died during his soccer game, she never gave up on saving his life.

On Feb. 16, Jose was playing in his soccer game when the ball hit him in the chest and he instantly collapsed. “I was just really dizzy, and everything was really blurry,” he said. “I tried to keep my balance, but I went down on one knee and then I collapsed,” the teenager said. “I was feeling scared and frightened, and everything was surreal and my emotions were still there because I was his mother,” Agredano said. But her training as a doctor kicked in, and she got to work. “It was game on,” she said. While performing CPR, Agredano kept telling herself: “He’s not going to die today. We’re not going to die today.”

“All of those emotions just stopped, and it was like a surge of adrenaline, this fight-or-flight-type thing, that my son’s not going to die,” she said. “That took over.”

“The ball hit him in the heart, and it threw his heart into an abnormal rhythm, and the only way to recover is CPR and an electrical shock,” Agredano said about her son, who had suffered a commotio cordis, or a cardiac arrest from a sudden impact to the chest. “In this condition, the CPR itself is not enough,” she said. “The heart has to be shocked back into its regular rhythm and it has to be done in a certain time frame. Every minute that passes, the mortality rate increases.” But Agredano kept performing CPR until a firefighter arrived with an AED device and revived Jose with one shock. “She took me into this world and she didn’t want me to leave yet,” Jose said.

“I wasn’t ready to lose him,” Agredano, a family practice physician, told TODAY, adding: “I think as a mother, it was the hardest thing I’ve had to do in my life,” Agredano said. “I always have seen her as a hero and an amazing person,” said Jose. “I looked at her a little brighter.”

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Doctor Saves Son After He Almost Died During Soccer Game is an article from: LifeDaily

Telling the first-born child that they’re going to be a big brother or sister can be pretty nerve-wracking for parents, since they never know how their child is going to react to finding out they’ll no longer be an only child.

But when it came time for one Atlanta mom to break the news to her 14-month-old daughter, she decided not to sugar-coat things. Instead, she decided to serve her first-born ‘eviction’ papers and hilariously documented the moment on her social media account.

While baby Rayne was in her crib, mom Sharana Horton posted a piece of paper on the side that read: “EVICTION NOTICE: Please Note That Your “Only-Child” Status Will Expire Within 18 Weeks. You are required to VACATE the Premises as a New Tenant is Expected on June 25, 2017. -Thanks, Management aka Mommy and Da Da.”

“I was cleaning out her room to make room for the new baby. I had a lot of stuff packed up in baskets and bags to donate and give away. My husband came home and saw bags and boxes everywhere and said jokingly, ‘It looks like we’re getting evicted,” Horton said. “I then replied, ‘We’re not, but she is,’ and we just kind of took that and ran with it.”

As you might expect, Rayne was not happy about the big news, but Horton insists she was really crying because they took a piece of food away from her to capture the photo. “We gave her a piece of pizza crust and took it away with her for a couple of seconds and she started crying and I snapped some photos,” Horton said. “A lot of people thought it was so funny.”

“I had been thinking of a way to announce it,” Horton said. “We came up with the notice and the sonogram idea.” Horton then posted the hysterical pregnancy announcement online and was stunned when it went viral and more than 15,500 people liked the photo. “When we woke up the next morning and noticed how many likes and shares we received, we were blown away,” she said.

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Recent rain in the Santa Cruz mountains has led to a horse getting stuck on a muddy trail. 

Due to recent rain in the Santa Cruz mountains, a horse was laid out on her side in what can be described as quick-sand. Fire Battalion Chief Aldo Gonzalez told ABC 7 News, “She’s lying in water. Holding her head up with the bridle, I guess. The horse was exhausted from battling for an hour, an hour and 20 minutes to get out of the water.”

Gonzalez received the call around 2:30 pm and he knew he was looking at a dangerous situation. “You don’t know what an animal’s thinking when you try and help them,” he told the news station. “They’re looking for a way out. You could get a hoof in the stomach or take a blow to the face.”

So, he quickly came up with a plan. “We noticed the water was draining toward the horse from the creek and we diverted the water flow from draining toward the horse, away from the horse.” 

Once the water receded, the soil firmed up and the 6-year-old horse was able to get her footing and stand. Both the horse and rider were able to walk out away from the situations unharmed, but with strict instructions from the battalion chief to get home and get warm. 

“It was great,” the battalion chief added. “Monet was the horse’s name, kinda put a smile on my face.”

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The Woodlands Fire Department came to the rescue of a lost dog stranded in a creek a couple of weeks ago.

The tiny female dog had gotten stuck on a limb in the middle of a creek during storms that blew through the area. First, Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputies had tried to lure the dog to safety but were unsuccessful.

The Woodlands Fire Department was then called in and in order to get her they refrained from using their boat’s motor so they wouldn’t scare her. So instead, they tied the boat to the shore and allowed the current of the creek to float the boat to the limb. 

“(The firefighters) sat there and petted her for a few minutes,” TWFD Battalion Chief Mike Berryman told Chron.com. “She squirmed around a little bit like she was unsure of what to do.” After about five minutes, the firefighters got a hold of the dog and brought it to shore.

“I was extremely amazed about how they were able to win the confidence of the dog,” Berryman said. “You could tell she was scared.” Luckily, the dog had a microchip when Montgomery County Animal Control officers scanned her and she was returned to her owners shortly after the rescue.

We’d like to thank the Woodlands Fire Department for this incredible rescue. 

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Firefighters Rescue Tiny Dog Stranded In The Middle Of A Creek is an article from: LifeDaily