True, feel-good animal stories

We point you to good stories

We go looking for true stories about animals that are worth someone's time, and we point you at them. We do not rewrite the reporting and we do not claim it. Each pick is a short reason to care, a line from the piece itself, and a link straight to the people who did the work, with full credit.

Each edition carries one story from somewhere specific, one about an animal that is not a dog or a cat, and at least one thing we did not know before.

Every edition lives on this site

Read them here. There is nothing to sign up for, and no mailing list. New editions will appear on this page when we have them.

The parrot who made scientists rethink what a bird's brain can do

The second real cycle, published two weeks after Edition No. 3.

The dog who cried when the walk was over

This is the first edition built end to end the way Paw Prints is meant to run. It is also the longest, at five picks, because it is where we worked out the shape: one story from somewhere specific, one about an animal that is not a dog or a cat, and one thing we simply did not know before.

The rescue a teenager built because nobody else would

Editions No. 1 and No. 2 were built as test editions, after the fact, while we were still working out how Paw Prints should read. The stories and the sourcing are real. The edition itself was assembled later, and we would rather say so than quietly date it forward.

The dog who never stopped waiting at the station

Editions No. 1 and No. 2 were built as test editions, after the fact, while we were still working out how Paw Prints should read. The stories and the sourcing are real. The edition itself was assembled later, and we would rather say so than quietly date it forward.