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This isn't a very exciting story but I worked at a fish farm when I finished university. Many times when fishes float up sideways they would be frozen/discarded as dead.
What I realized is 75% of the time they aren't all dead. Close to death yes but not dead. So I'd hold them in the water and gently open their gills to let fresh oxygenated water get in. After a few minutes of this they would usually have the strength to straighten themselves in the water, then you'd see their fins start moving and eventually they'll swim out of my hands.
It was one of the best moments of my job when they were able to swim out of my hands.

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    I don't know if it qualifies as saved but I'd say at least helped. One day while driving home I spotted four kittens on the side of the road. I immediately stopped and asked someone at the nearest house if they were his kittens. This was the conversation:
    Me: "Excuse me, are those your kittens?"
    Him: "No, people keep dropping them of because it's a lonely spot"
    Me: "Okay, I'll take them"
    Him: "All of them?!"
    Me: "Yep"

    I had a box lined with paper in my trunk (which was there because I had seen a puppy on another lonely road a few weeks before and thought I'd keep the box incase I saw the puppy again) so I filled them in, it took some chasing, but that's how I got my pet cat Blue! His siblings were all adopted with the help of a friend.

    The strange part is that the road where I found them wasn't along my usual route. I just happened to use it as a shortcut.

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    my uncle found a family of kittens and their parents in a ally, I adopted one and named him blu

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    not me but my grandma. her dogs were outside and barking like crazy so she went outside to see what they were barking at. and on the other side of the fence were 3 new born kittens. when she went to get them she saw that there mom had been hit by a car and died :(. so she took them in and raised them, there was 2 girls and one boy. she named them howie, mazie, and eclipse. eclipse lives with us now, and she's very crazy.

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    R.I.P, cat mom :( Show this to your grandma: If you didn't save those kittens, they would've never experience their full life. You are a good person that wouldn't abandon a cat. (I would give them to a shelter because I'm allergic to cats).

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    I was a baby and I lived in Baltimore so we were walking and then we saw a cat 🐈 it was a ginger tabby she was as old as me so we knew they knew we had to do something so a day later we adopted her, Her name is simba

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Makes sense if you two grew up together. Elmo: Elmo has to agree with Mark.

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    #6

    I was playing with my neighbor across the street when I was 11. We found a baby bird, cold and out of it's nest. There are cats around that area, so we got a clean cloth,picked it up with the cloth softly so we didn't kill it, put it into my backyard, tried to find a worm, my dad didn't approve it, we gave it to them (my neighbor friends), it was saved. Unfortunately a few months later, it got sick and died. R.I.P, bird that I saved :(

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    the time a scared baby snapping turtle was in the road and me and my sis slid it with a stick so it could be safe in the grass and not get hit by a car

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    I was driving home and was at a stop light when I saw a dog cross a six lane busy street during rush hour, and the side he ended up on was fenced so there was nowhere for him to go. As soon as the light turned green, I drove past it and stopped by where the dog was, but as soon as he saw me, he ran back across the street! Thankfully cars had slowed down because they saw my car stopped (with blinkers on), so he was unharmed. I got back in the car and made a U-turn to follow him into a side street. I parked went trying to get close to him. It took me a while because he was really scared, but a nice guy who was smoking outside his house helped grab him and he put him inside his yard. I called an animal shelter and they said they would send someone over, so I left him with the nice guy who even went inside his house and grabbed some water and food for the dog.

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    My mom and I were taking a walk and we saw a snapping turtle in the road. My mom ran out into the road in front of a car and grabbed the turtle. We took it back to the lake by our house and it still lives there.

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    This may sound weird, but this was a save only for a day.
    My fam and I were at a park for my soccer practice back when I was 10. A woman walked by, she had scooped up her dog and was running to her car. A baby squirrel started chasing her dog, thinking it was it's mom. Anyway, after being chased by a squirrel for half of practice, we got it into a bag without touching it and put in in a shoebox in our backyard since it had started to rain. Squirrel left a day later, but whatever.

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    1. when i went on a walk i seen a dog in the middle of the road and i ran to get it while i was trying to get it i almost got hit but i moved before the car hit either of us. 2.when i was going to go to my friends house my dog ran out of the house and it ran out into the middle of the road and again i ran into the road to get the dog and almost got hit.

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    #12

    When I was in middle school, my sibling found this tiny bird that had a head injury so severe, part of it was virtually gone. We told our father about the bird, so we put it in a small box with a cloth in it. Father called a vet and asked if they took in wild animals; they said no. Eventually, father found a place that took in wild animals, but it was about an hour away. We went, gave the poor bird to the workers, and left. Never knew what happened to the poor thing. I only hoped it made it.

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