Working in animal rescue is often heartbreaking for volunteers, but there are moments of joy that would never be possible without their tireless efforts.

Joey Wagner enjoys volunteering. Back in 2013, Joey received a(n)_________about a severely abused dog. He hung up and _________ for the place all at once. When he saw the little dog, he _________ realized the dog was hours away from death.

Joey and another rescuer _________ the dog, which they named Mojo，to the animal shelter. Many people requested to adopt Mojo. However, its _________ was so bad that it was not considered. In spite of the fact that it’d been_________, Mojo was loving towards humans and showed an enormous capacity to _________. Mojo gradually recovered under the care of other volunteers of the animal shelter.

When it was finally able to find its forever home, Joey was the first in line to fill out the _________paperwork. And it was natural that the shelter _________ Joey’s application. Still, when Joey appeared to bring Mojo home, no one could have predicted the little dog’s reaction to seeing its__________ again!

The moment Mojo saw Joey，its little tail began to wag(摇)crazily to its __________ dad.

“It definitely __________ you. It was unexpected to other volunteers as the __________ dog climbed into his arms for more hugs and kisses.

Mojo is now a healthy member of Joey and Leta’s pack and the Wagners have continued to use its story as a(n)__________ to drive donations and awareness for animal rescue. Mojo knew that Joey helped it at its lowest. Their bond can never be __________.

On Monday, May 9, James Givens, a police officer in Cincinnati, Ohio, was sitting in his panda car. Just at that moment he heard what sounded like a _________. He turned around only to find a goose pecking （啄）at the car door. This was highly_________given that the birds typically preferred to observe _________from a distance.

But on this day, the goose appeared to be determined to get his_________and kept pecking until Givens opened the car door and _________. The police officer says that though the bird then began to_________, it kept turning around to make sure he was _________. When they finally stopped, Givens_________why the mother goose had been so — She wanted him to_________her gosling （幼鹅）that had been trapped in some balloon string.

____________ that the mother goose would____________him if he got close to the baby, Givens called the local SPCA （保护动物协会）. ____________, they were unable to send anyone to help right away. Therefore he had to call his fellow police officer Cecilia Charron, who was nearby and soon ____________Givens. Concerned that the gosling would not survive the ____________, Cecilia decided to take on the task herself.

As it turned out, there was ____________to worry about. The mother goose appeared to understand that Charron was trying to help and watched____________from a safe distance as the officer untied the trapped bird. As soon as the little gosling was ____________, it ran as quickly as possible to its____________, and they took off shortly after. Charron, a 24-year soldier of the police force, said this would probably____________to be the most memorable incident of her____________!

Louie, a pet parrot, saved a whole family. He __________ the sleeping Klein family in the middle of the night as flames swept through their home.

“Louie is a true __________,” Barbara Klein recently told news agency South West News Service (SWNS). “If it hadn’t been for him, I probably wouldn’t have been __________ at that time. He started shouting ‘Fire’. He had never said that word before in my __________. When I woke up, the fire was starting to spread across the living room floor.” Unluckily for the family, Louie didn’t __________. Barbara said, “He was like our babies, so it’s __________.”

Barbara took her five-year-old granddaughter __________ and ran out of the house. Her husband Larry also made it out, but was severely wounded when escaping from the burning building. “He ran to the kitchen and tried to __________ the fire out with water,” Barbara told SWNS. “After we left, he ran back into the house and insisted on __________ the pet but with no __________.” The Kleins suffered great __________ in the fire. Their house was in __________ along with its contents and the parrot Louie passed away.

“People have __________ with clothing and someone donated an apartment for three months,” Barbara said. “The man who donated the apartment also __________ us with a baby parrot. We call him Louie Jr to __________ Louie.”