# Your feel-good story for the day **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 16, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110 "2025-04-16T17:37:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/1 "2025-04-16T17:37:44Z")
Here’s mine. Feel free to post your own today, or in coming days: > **[Missing toddler who walked 7 miles alone through Arizona wilderness led to...](https://www.aol.com/missing-toddler-walked-7-miles-104220935.html)** > > The rancher traced the boy’s steps and discovered that Buford, an Anatolian Pyrenees who normally patrols his land and wards off coyotes, had escorted the 2-year-old for at least a mile. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/2 "2025-04-16T17:48:24Z")
Thank you for posting this, my day needed it! ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/3 "2025-04-16T21:51:48Z")
Good dog, Buford! ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/4 "2025-04-17T02:22:16Z")
How do dogs know what to do? Dog thought: What is this? looks like a small boss. Should I leave it? Should I kill it? no, I know, I’ll take it to the house. They’ll know what to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/5 "2025-04-17T02:28:46Z")
Probably more like “Human puppy! Should be taken care of!”; though you might well be right about ‘my humans will know what to do about it’. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/6 "2025-04-17T02:46:14Z")
:: wags tail :: ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/7 "2025-04-17T03:40:41Z")
I volunteer at an animal shelter and on Sunday a young girl and her mom came in with a big bag of all kinds of brand new dog toys, food, blankets and treats. She had just had a birthday party and requested donations instead gifts for herself. I could not praise and thank them enough. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/8 "2025-04-17T07:47:22Z")
Glad to see this thread … > **[‘Book brigade’: US town forms human chain to move 9,100 books one-by-one](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/book-brigade-us-town-forms-human-chain-to-move-9100-books-one-by-one)** > > A small Michigan community banded together to help a beloved local bookstore move its stock to a new storefront ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/9 "2025-04-18T04:05:56Z")
kambuckta turned me on to this… But in more Dog related Smile News… [‘This sausage dog who terrorised Kangaroo Island for 500 days is my niche area of obsession.’](https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/this-sausage-dog-who-terrorised-kangaroo-island-for-500-days-is-my-niche-area-of-obsession/ar-AA1D8O8e?ocid=BingNewsSerp) Never Underestimate a Doggo. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/10 "2025-04-18T14:11:53Z")
Wonderful stories, way to go Buford! I’ll just say that I feel good because my wife and I bought a new house. We are in the process of moving, slowly moving down from the mountains. But we love the place, it was time, I’m too old for 11,200 feet. That’s a young mans work. I’m probably going to take the afternoon off too. I’ve got a lot of stuff to put together. Shelves mostly at this point. OH! and I actually have enough garage space to get proper roll around tool chests. They come Monday. I’m really more excited than I should be. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/11 "2025-04-19T00:54:49Z")
Somehow, I knew Buford would be rated 15/10. Well deserved. > **[224K views · 16K reactions | This is Buford. He found a missing 2-year-old...](https://www.facebook.com/WeRateDogs/videos/652348930914536)** > > This is Buford. He found a missing 2-year-old during his nightly patrol that a local rescue team spent 16 hours searching for. Monday night, the toddler... ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/12 "2025-04-20T19:41:18Z")
# 110-year-old Fort Erie, Ont., man says to treat others as you’d like to be treated ## Burdett Sisler was born April 13, 1915, and hopes to live at least another 5 years [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/burdett-sisler-turns-110-1.7513443](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/burdett-sisler-turns-110-1.7513443) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/13 "2025-04-20T22:19:46Z")
Imma lay an 🥚 in your thread.(don’t take it personal) ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/14 "2025-04-22T02:31:50Z")
Congratulations, @enipla. I recall you’ve been talking about moving but I didn’t realize you found a new home already. Very best of luck. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/15 "2025-04-22T13:24:46Z")
Thanks. It’s incredible. We are still trying to come up with a name for the house. My Wife has decided to go with professional cleaners. She and I always have good intentions, but cleaning is often shelved. On a dusty shelf. Anywho, the lady that came yesterday was very good. She’s from Ukraine, does not speak a word of English. And she’s very hard of hearing, as am I. Communication was a bit iffy at first. Mostly hand signals. BUT, Ukrainian to English on a cell phone got us ‘talking’. Amazing stuff. I’m gonna be learning to speak Ukrainian! and she English. It’s very cool. So I made a new friend which made me feel good. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/16 "2025-04-23T05:21:32Z")
> **[scha·den·freu·de (@blisterpearl.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/blisterpearl.bsky.social/post/3lnh52rqzes23)** > > There it is. The clam before the storm. Made me smile ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/17 "2025-04-23T11:42:16Z")
The homeless guy I see occasionally in the Walgreen’s lot asked me for cash, as I was parking my big shiny “Texas” truck. We’ve had friendly interactions before. Me: “I ain’t got any money on me, honest.” [true statement] Him: “Fancy truck like that and you ain’t got any money?” Me: “The truck’s _why_ I ain’t got any money.” Him: [Laughing] “Well maybe I oughta give you money this time!” (Got cash for him while I was in the store.) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/18 "2025-05-06T17:50:23Z")
Awwwwww. > **[Watch Navy officer dad sneak up behind his pre-teen daughters to surprise them](https://www.aol.com/watch-navy-officer-dad-sneak-153816557.html)** > > A father and his ex-wife come together to create a magical co-parenting moment for their two girls who haven't seen their father for 3 years while he has been deployed. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/19 "2025-05-07T22:38:00Z")
This is darker than the regular posts in this thread, but… Sometimes you know a story, but it’s lodged in the back of your mind, and when something triggers that memory it’s an “Oh God, yes of course!” moment. And so it was, when we were visiting Prague earlier this week, and we stumbled across a memorial to the Englishman Nicholas Winton. The very simple memorial gives his name, and records that he was the saviour of 669 children. Winton (with others) arranged the rescue of 669 Jewish children from Prague to the UK on the eve of the second world war. > Winton mentioned his humanitarian accomplishments in his election material while unsuccessfully standing for election to the Maidenhead town council in 1954. Otherwise, he went unnoticed for half a century until in 1988 his wife found a detailed scrapbook in their attic, containing lists of the children, including their parents’ names and the names and addresses of the families that took them in. He was essentially unknown (intentionally) until he was - uh, I guess “outed” is the word - on some remarkable TV. I don’t know that I approve of this sort of thing, but I defy you to watch this meeting with some of the children he saved with dry eyes. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/OqqbM1B-mPY/maxresdefault.jpg "Holocaust hero Sir Nicholas Winton (That's Life - 1988)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqqbM1B-mPY) To return to Prague: I was very happy to visit his memorial and pay my respects to a great human being. j > **[Nicholas Winton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Winton#)** > > Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE (né Wertheim; 19 May 1909 – 1 July 2015) was a British stockbroker and humanitarian who helped to rescue refugee children, mostly Jewish, whose families had fled persecution by Nazi Germany. Born to German-Jewish parents who had immigrated to Britain at the beginning of the 20th century, Winton assisted in the rescue of 669 children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. On a brief visit to Czechoslovakia, he helped compile a list of children in danger a... ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110/20 "2025-05-08T01:02:01Z")
You may know there’s a recent movie about him: [One Life (2023 film) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Life_(2023_film)) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-feel-good-story-for-the-day/1017110.md?page=2)