Uplifting news stories

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

Orphaned baby llama befriends orphaned baby walrus​

Need a boost?

These touching stories of human heroism, animal friendship and insect ingenuity invented on the spot should do the trick:

Orphaned baby llama befriends orphaned baby walrus
When Lima the baby llama lost his mother in a landslide, a couple on a trekking holiday adopted him and took him back to their native Canada where he struck up an friendship with a fellow adorable orphan, Winnipeg the walrus. The inseparable pair enjoy sunbathing on rocks together and spitting on humans. So darn cute!

British child sells cupcakes to pay for her mum’s surgery
Inspirational teen Sophie Duncan wasn’t allowed to go out to work due to the UK restrictive child labour laws, so instead she set up a popular cupcake stand to raise money for her mother’s health care. Her whole community rallied round GoFundMe and she’d soon made £750,000, enough to cover the private surgery and pay her university fees upfront. Nice going, Sophie.

Hero cat saves baby from a burning building
Snuffles the tabby will be getting extra Whiskas tonight after he selflessly dived into a burning building to rescue a two-year-old. The baby’s mother then adopted the stray and rebuilt their home after selling the film rights. Now Snuffles and the family live in the lap of luxury and maintain their own private fire service.

Wasp does thousand laps of living room for charity
A local wasp has emulated Captain Tom’s fundraising heroism by circling a living room a thousand times. Ignoring open windows and flapping arms, Norman Steele the wasp has inspired Britain and raised £310,000 to be split between the NHS, Great Ormond Street Hospital and wasp charities. Godspeed Norman, you stripy legend.

Couple who’ve been together for seventy years learn TikTok dance
A couple in their 90s – he’s a WWII veteran, she worked with Woollies – have warmed millions of cockles by participating in a viral TikTok dance and sharing the results online. Joseph Turner and his wife Mary learned the choreography for ‘The b**** Slap’ from their great-great-granddaughter, Lauren Hewitt, a vet who makes prosthetic limbs for injured puppies. Tissues, anyone?

via - Daily Dry Your Eyes