Rescue

That alone made me weep...

It's not common to see puppies and kittens in Maine pet stores anymore, but soon it could be straight up illegal.

Pats fans are even winners when it comes to helping out a stray ambulance!

With temperatures pushing zero, three adorable Maine black bear cubs were rescued after being abandoned by their mother.

It was cold, windy and snowing pretty heavily when 3 skiers from out of state decided it would be a good idea to forge down the back side of the mountain Sunday.

Baxter State Park rangers had to rescue a father-and-son pair of hikers after they suffered multiple falls in the middle of a snowstorm on Maine's tallest mountain.

Bring your best friend to meet beer-loving dog people at Dirigo Brewing Company!

She started out as a rescue, then turned into a crowd pleaser, and is now assumed to be a permanent fixture.

Horrified onlookers alert police after an intoxicated woman is seen throwing kittens in a chilly pond in Maine on July 4th

When ducklings slipped into a sewer drain, a manager at McDonald's acted fast to save them before it was too late

The buck appeared to have been treading water for over two hours and was losing his battle to stay alive in the frigid waters.

A couple weeks ago, everyone was drawn to a video of lobstermen saving a seal pup who has been entangled in some traps. It was one of those feel good moments of humanity and nature working together to exist. Another one of those feel good moments has surfaced, this time involving a bald eagle on the precipice of drowning...

Here's your feel good moment for the day. Shared on YouTube by Resisting Entropy, a seal, clearly trapped deep inside a fishing net was rescued by a pair of fisherman off the coast of Owl's Head. As you can see in the video, it took several minutes to safely remove the seal from the net and without the fisherman's help, the seal likely would have perished...

See? Not all animal encounters in Maine in the summer have to be scary!