by Kevin Burton
Surely you’ve noticed the double cold of the world. Here’s a warm ray of hope from the Good News Network.
I say double cold because Jesus’ prophecy from Matt. 24:13 (KJV) has come to pass: “And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.”
Also much of my country recently had a deadly cold winter storm, and other parts of the world experienced this too.
Today we have three stories from GNN about animals being saved from the cold weather. We start with a story about my all-time favorite Chinese cat:
“A heartwarming outcome followed a frigid emergency when a woman found a kitten, frozen solid in the snow outside her home, during a deadly winter storm in Eastern China.”
“She was able to revive the small kitten after finding it motionless and completely stiff near the shrubbery in Dezhou, Shandong.”
“The kitten was still alive but her tail was as rigid as a stick.”
“The kind hearted woman brought the feline inside and nursed it back to health, using a hairdryer and towels to warm it up,” the GNN story reads.
“After the stranger’s determination and hard work, the kitten regained its strength and made a full recovery. And the woman decided to adopt her, naming her Mimi.”
Next, outdoor dogs found a warm place to stay, thanks to a nonprofit:
“In southeast Missouri, the nonprofit Animal Rescue Corps helped save a pregnant female dog along with 17 others from the snow and freezing temperatures that battered so much of the United States.”
“Safe and warm at their rescue center outside Nashville, the ARC staff helped her welcome a litter of 9 adorable puppies into the world.”
So counting the unborn puppies, 27 lives were saved.
“According to ARC, following a call in Doniphan, Missouri, their responders found several adult dogs chained up and multiple litters of puppies roaming freely on the property.”
“This is not a criminal case,” says ARC Executive Director and finalist for the CNN 2025 Hero of the Year award, Tim Woodward, as it was the property owners who took the initiative to ask for help when the winter storm was on the horizon.”
“The people living on the property recognized that the number of dogs had grown beyond what they could manage and that they could no longer properly care for the animals,” Woodward said.
“These individuals also agreed to have their personal dogs spayed or neutered immediately at ARC’s expense.”
From cats and dogs, we now move to witness rescue of a larger animal, in a story written by GNN’s Andy Corbley:
“On the last Saturday in January, Macey and Tanner Sorrell went to check on their pregnant cow as dusk gathered around their property in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. To their surprise, she had already given birth.”
“The farming family welcomed a new calf into a frigid world of single digit temperatures, and quickly realized it wasn’t going to last the night,” Corbley wrote.
“So being a mother as well as a farmer, Macey Sorrell decided to bring the calf into their home where she was certain it would be okay. With the calf falling asleep on the couch next to her two children, Sorrell snapped a photo that has the internet fawning.”
“She was just frozen. Her umbilical cord looked like a popsicle,” Sorrell said. “It was just frozen.”
“Having lost a calf last year to frostbite, they decided, to take precautionary measures.”
“When we brought her in, she had ice on her. The afterbirth was still on her, I had to wipe all that off,” Macey said. “I took out the blow dryer and warmed her up, and got her all fluffed out.”
“It was sort of a surprise, but not really that their son, 3-year-old Gregory, went to cuddle with the calf who had been placed on the couch—as if it were “just the most normal thing.”
“Macey said she and her family are used to bringing the occasional farm animal into their house, and it’s clearly rubbed off on their children.”
“Gregory named the calf Sally, who after her harrowing night, rejoined her mother in the paddock after sunrise, healthy and ready to explore her new world.”
And since we had happy endings all around with our animal friends, why don’t we add Matt. 24:13 to the Bible passage above.
“But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”
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