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10/09/2026

Denver Animal Protection said officers rescued three dogs from hot cars in the past month, and that two of the dogs did not survive the heat.

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10/07/2026

Three months after Amanda Richmond Rogers disappeared while trying to rescue her dog from an icy Alaska river, her body was found with him in her arms.

Amanda was 45, a mother of four sons, and an emergency room and pediatric hospice nurse.

To her family, she was Mandy.

On Dec. 23, 2023, Amanda and her husband, Brian Rogers, were celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary. They took two of their dogs for a walk near the North Fork of Eagle River, one of Amanda’s favorite places.

They had planned a date and a night away together afterward.

While the dogs played, the couple stopped to enjoy the winter scenery.

Then Groot approached a small opening in the ice to get a drink.

He fell into the water.

Brian rushed in first. Holding onto the edge, he reached beneath the ice, trying to find their dog in the darkness.

He couldn’t reach him.

When Brian climbed out and moved downstream to look again, he turned and saw Amanda entering the river.

He called out to her.

Before he could get back to the opening, he saw her swimming downstream beneath the ice. Then she disappeared from view.

She never resurfaced.

Search teams brought helicopters, divers, drones, search dogs and underwater equipment to the river. Freezing conditions made their work difficult, and the active search was eventually suspended.

The family was left waiting.

On March 24, 2024, a passerby discovered remains near the North Fork Trailhead. The medical examiner identified Amanda, and her sister, Jennifer Richmond, told Alaska’s News Source that she had been found holding Groot in her arms.

Brian had already explained what their dogs meant to Amanda.

“She did not jump in to save ‘just a dog,’ it was a family member.”

At her celebration of life, family, friends, colleagues and former patients gathered to remember her. They spoke about a woman who cared for suffering children, loved the outdoors and put her family at the center of her life.

Her sons remembered their mother’s love.

Her husband wanted people to remember her kindness.

Amanda’s story ended in the river, but the people who knew her remembered much more—a mother, a nurse, and someone whose love extended to the animals who shared her home.

10/07/2026

10/06/2026

In the fall of 2022, a mountain lion in Nederland, Colorado, killed more than a dozen dogs in two months and nobody could stop it. Nederland sits at 8,200 feet in the foothills west of Boulder, surrounded by national forest. Mountain lions live in the timber above and around the town. Encounters are not unusual. A lion killing a dog is not unusual either.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife classifies it as wild cats being wild cats. What happened in Nederland between October and December 2022 was different. One lion, or possibly two, began systematically taking dogs from porches, yards, and leashes.

In early December, Caroline Bennett posted on a Nederland Facebook group that a lion had sn**ched her Australian shepherd from their porch. Another resident's dog was taken from a yard. Another was killed while the owner tried to fight the lion off. Three dogs disappeared from the same area within days of each other.

Residents built a digital tracker, a shared map logging every attack, sighting, and close call with the time, location, and outcome. The entries described lions trying to sn**ch dogs off porches, a lion killing three dogs despite the owner defending them, and dogs vanishing one after another from the same streets.

By mid-December, at least nine dogs were confirmed dead. By January, the count exceeded a dozen. Some were small breeds taken in the dark. Others were large. In April 2026 in Yucaipa, California, a mountain lion killed a 90-pound husky and a 65-pound Anatolian shepherd in the same backyard in broad daylight, captured on security camera. The owner said they thought having two large dogs would be enough protection. Mountain lions usually avoid large dogs, she said. Size is not a deterrent when the predator outweighs the dog and knows how to use an ambush.

A mountain lion hunts by waiting. It does not chase the way a coyote does. It sits in cover, watches the yard, picks the moment, and closes the distance in a short explosive rush. A dog on a porch at dusk does not know the lion is there until the lion is on it.

Predator kills on domestic pets in the United States are overwhelmingly coyotes, over 90 percent by most estimates. Bobcats account for roughly 7 percent. Great horned owls about 2.5 percent. Mountain lions, bears, and eagles combined make up less than half a percent.

The difference between coyote predation on pets and mountain lion predation on pets is not just scale. It is behavior. A coyote that kills a cat in a yard is an opportunist that happened to find a small animal in its path. A mountain lion that returns to the same porch on consecutive nights is a predator that has identified a reliable food source and incorporated it into its routine. The Nederland lion came back because the dogs kept being there.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife responded by planning to remove the lion. One resident shot and killed a lion when it targeted their dog. CPW said they had already planned to remove that specific animal, though not necessarily because of the dog attacks. The agency's position remained consistent: this is mountain lion habitat, people chose to live in it, and the cats are doing what cats do. Nederland residents who lost their dogs did not find that framing comforting.

Image is for illustration purposes only

Source: Colorado Sun / Yahoo News / McClatchy / Colorado Parks and Wildlife / CBS Los Angeles / KTLA / 3Retrievers Pet Detective.

10/04/2026

On a 28 degree morning in Dayton, Ohio, a pharmacy's parking lot camera shows a tan sedan pulling out. A little white terrier is standing up in the back window, looking at the store.

The man driving doesn't own the car or the dog.

Both belong to Harlan Voss, 81. He'd left the engine running so the heater would stay on for Petey while he picked up a prescription. Harlan was in the store for three minutes.

He came out with the paper bag and stood on the sidewalk where his car had been.

A second camera picked up the sedan nine minutes later, 2 miles east, in front of a fire station. On that video the car stops, the back door swings open and Petey hops out. Then the car is gone.

The terrier was sitting at the station's front door when a firefighter came out for the newspaper. His crew called it in, and the dispatcher already had a report of a stolen car with a little white dog in it.

One of the firefighters drove Petey back to the pharmacy. Harlan was still standing on the sidewalk with the paper bag.

10/04/2026

Arlene Mabry, 63, has driven a truck across the country for 22 years, the last eight with a blue heeler named Dutch in the passenger seat.

At a truck stop outside Amarillo, Texas, she ran in to pay and left the driver's door open with Dutch on the seat. The fuel island camera shows a man in a ball cap climb the steps, lift Dutch out and carry the dog to a pickup. On the video Dutch keeps twisting around to see the truck.

Arlene put the picture from that camera on a truckers' page that night. Then she parked and waited.

Two days later a driver named Hollis spotted a heeler tied to a fence at a rest area outside Oklahoma City, 260 miles east. He was headed the wrong way. So he handed Dutch up to a driver going west, and that driver handed the dog to another one in Elk City.

The third truck pulled into the Amarillo truck stop a little after midnight.

Dutch came down the steps of a stranger's cab, crossed the lot and went straight up into Arlene's.