heartwarming

Here's a story that will fill your hearts with all the feels! Long-time volunteers at the Stevens Swan Humane Society (SSHS), Rob and Hillary Dunn, decided to continue their new tradition of celebrating Thanksgiving with those they love most - the animals at the shelter. For the second year in a row, the Dunns have made a full Thanksgiving meal for every dog at the SSHS

According to Go Travel Blogger, every single dog at the shelter got its very own plate! A plate complete with white-meat turkey, green beans, and sweet potatoes. Of course, all the food given was healthy and safe for the animals to enjoy. The cats at the shelter were treated to bowls of their own, a pumpkin pie mix. The Dunn's graciously took on this monumental task and prepped everything out of their pockets.

You can help the Dunns reach their simple goal of raising $500 each for their favorite shelter, the Stevens Swan Humane Society, by donating to either's Rob's fundraiser or Hillary's, all funds go directly to the shelter.  

We hope all these beautiful animals have their next Thanksgiving meal in a loving forever home of their own.

A match made in heaven! Earlier this year, a friendly 14-year-old gray cat, originally named LL Cool J, was brought into the Anne Arundel County Animal Care and Control in Maryland. The shelter arranged a foster home for this gentle cat so he could live comfortably until the right person came along. 

Little did anyone know, the person who would come along would be the absolute purrfect match and that they would both need each other. 

Story via LoveMeow

Welcome back to one of our favorite and original posts of the week -- the newly adopted faces! Week by week, we gather up all the beautiful adopted faces we come across and share them here with all of you. Each week, it's a blessing to see all these lovely animals finding their forever home filled with love. It fills our hearts with joy to them. 

We would like to take a moment to thank all those who have recently adopted a pet, those who have adopted pets in the past, and those who will adopt pets in the future. We love you all, thank you for giving these beauties a wonderful life. And a huge mega-shout out to all those who adopt older animals or those in need of some extra love and care. You guys are our forever heroes, thank you for giving these pets a second chance at a wonderful life. 

If you recently adopted a pet share an image with us in the comments below or send us a DM on Facebook to be featured on next week's list! 

In case you're having a not-so-easy day, these animals are here for the rescue. They're kind, gentle, understanding and reassuring. You just see it on their faces in their small smiles and calm eyes. You know that they will happily boop their heads against yours and give you big warm cuddles. 

I know that I needed some positivity today, and these adorable animals have brought a smile to my face and a calmness to my day that I wish they'll bring to yours too. So, may your week be better from this point on, and we wish you meet a kind animal this week that'll allow you to pet its head. 

Found in below freezing temperatures last month, Xerxes the kitten has officially been adopted by the good man who saved her! She was only five-weeks-old then, hanging off the side of one of the truck tires, with her tail and paws completely frozen to the metal surface, trapping her. 9NEWS reports that to free the kitten without causing her additional pain, the man who found her splashed warm water on the areas of the tire to which her pas and tail were stuck, gently removing her paws and tail from the tire.

The man brought the kitten to the Denver Dumb Friends League (DDFL), wrapped up in tiny blankets to keep her warm, where she received the care she needed as well as the name Xerxes. On Monday, after recovering, she has officially been adopted into the forever home of the man who saved her. "Before her adoption, Xerxes spent time in a foster home where her frostbitten paws recovered, and her initially frightened exterior began to crumble," DDFL recounted. "Healed and healthy, Xerxes is settling in with her new family."

They add that, without the help of the man who saved her, the kitten would have most likely not survived through the night. So, we can only be thankful, encourage others to help the little creatures in need that they come across, and thank every savior we hear about for doing the right thing. 

Right as we needed it, @RllGJUlCE comes to the rescue with the most enormous twitter thread of wholesomeness we've seen in a loooong time. We wanna thank this user for taking the time and collecting all of these heartwarming pictures of what we truly believe are animals that don't get nearly as much love as they deserve. 

So, it's time to give them that love. Since the thread is SO huge, we've put here the pictures that made us smile the hardest. To see the rest of them, go give the original thread some love. But for now, let's fill up with love for these deserving of appreciation farm animals.

This week's tumblr treat that we have for you guys is all doggo all day long. It's wholesome, pawdorable, and cute as bork. It's exactly the kind of positive energy that we know you need for the start of this week. 

So, get yourself prepared for some good ol' doggo goodness with nothing but pure vibes and and even purer doggos. Because dogs are some of the most innocent kind-hearted animals, and tumblr knows it, so there are about an endless number of wholesome tumblr doggos. But these ones are some of our favorites. 

For more tumblr purity, we have some wholesome tumblr animals and specifically, some wholesome tumblr cats. 

Starting off the day with a piece of incredibly happy news! A critically endangered black baby rhino was born in Chester Zoo, and we could not be any happier about it. There are only less than 1,000 of them left globally, so any new addition to the black rhino family should be celebrated everywhere. On top of that, the rare birth and the baby's first steps were all caught on camera!

Take a look at the footage below!

We've got a wonderful gathering of videos this week, fellow cat lovers! So many heartwarming videos, it has our hearts bursting out the seams! 

Week by week, we dig through Instagram's top and best cat videos only to deliver you here the top 5. To make a video worthy of being in our top 5, it has to hit certain elements. Elements of happiness, adorableness, and silliness. Oh, if you can find one with all three, that's striking gold. Sometimes, we come across videos that also just hit us in the feels and that's also considered striking gold.

These hilarious and beautiful videos deserve your undivided attention, we promise you -- they are worth it. As always, please turn your sound on to feel the full effect of these wonderful vids! If you need another dose of cat video goodness, you don't have to look too far. 

They're tiny, they're cute, they have huge ears, but it's winter, so it's cold, and ears must stay warm. What's the solution? Hats of course. But oh no, bunny's ears don't always fit in the hat, so holes must be cut out of the hat, and doesn't that defeat the point? Yes, it does.  

No matter. Bunnies, ears outside or inside of hats, are wholesome and adorable and nothing but pure good. And because getting a dose of cute is never not necessary, we bring you pictures that are nothing but. So, enjoy these fancy little happy hopping creatures in their beautiful little hats, and have a hoppin' good week because nobunny compares to you!

Cats, cats, and nothing but cats.

We are always in need of a good cat dump, beautiful cats, silly cats, hilarious cat shenanigans, we'll happily take them all. Cats are the ultimate source of entertainment, they are also just so cute to look at, it calms the heart. It's a purrfect blend of madness and cute, it's all we need in this world, and each week, we gather up a hearty collection to serve it to you on a silver platter. 

We hope you're hungry because this is quite the feast we have prepared for you! Enjoy!