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Good News This Week: May 16, 2026 - Doulas, Elephants, & Libraries

Your weekly roundup of the best good news worth celebrating...

Two golden retrievers play in a small blue swimming pool

This 277-dog pool party just broke a Guinness World Record. Now all of the pools are being donated to shelters

Chewy hosted the splashy event to kick off summer and help shelter pets stay cool.

Two young wolf-dogs, one tan and white, and the other gray and white

This animal rescue took one look at these abandoned puppies and knew a DNA test was needed: 'When you see one, you know'

The two puppies, named Spartacus and Barnaby, were not only unique-looking. They were illegal in the state of Connecticut.

A white pit bull wears a wooden sign that says "free hugs" around his neck

Viral therapy dog gives children a hug every day when they get to school: 'He is life to these kids'

Cole and his human are changing lives for elementary schoolers across the country.

Boy cows don't survive the dairy industry. A dad and his daughter drove 600 miles to save two of them

The dairy industry has no use for boy cows. So Joanna Zelman and her father drove across the country to save two of them.

A college student with long, brown curly hair stands in front of an elephant habitat at Zoo Atlanta

College students invent 'enrichment wall' for zoo elephants that plays music only they can hear

Four elephants at Zoo Atlanta have been eager to play with the new wall, which includes treat puzzles and sounds designed to stimulate their brains.

Clouded leopards are 'one of the most elusive cat species' in the world. The Nashville Zoo just celebrated the birth of its 50th cub

Less than 10,000 clouded leopards remain in the wild today.

Two baby sloths wrap their arms around each other

Orphaned sloths are paired together for comfort after abandonment. These two are named Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce

A two-fingered sloth was found orphaned in the wild last November. That’s when The Sloth Institute of Costa Rica stepped in to save her.

Two sea turtle hatchlings walk along a sandy beach

Hundreds of sea turtles visit this national park to lay their eggs every year. To protect them, locals 'adopt a nest'

Over seven years, 600 supporters have helped raise nearly $126,000 to protect endangered sea turtle eggs.

A closeup photo of a loggerhead sea turtle

Sea turtle with tumor 'bigger than her head' makes miraculous recovery: 'She takes the cake for the scariest tumor I've seen'

The 170-pound loggerhead sea turtle “beat the odds” last summer and has since swam over 870 miles around the Florida Keys.

A baby Indian elephant runs around an enclosure.

British 'Knitting Nannas' sent mini sweaters to penguins, toys to monkeys, and baby blankets to a rhino. Now they're knitting for elephants

The Knitting Nannas have been saving animals around the world one stitch at a time.

National park volunteers stand guard between humans and tigers, preventing wildlife conflict

The Bardiya National Park region experiences frequent human-wildlife conflict incidents, mostly involving elephants and tigers, leading to fatalities and injuries among both communities and wildlife.