A shipwrecked pointer turned POW, Judy saved sailors, defied guards, survived two sinkings, and came home a decorated war hero — the only dog to earn the Dickin Medal for fighting Japan.

A loyal Staffordshire Bull Terrier named Oi made her final stand in a darkened hallway, placing herself between her family and armed intruders in an act of courage remembered even when the details of that night were lost.

Moko cut through the cold Mahia surf, nudging the stranded whales into the narrow channel as the beach fell silent to watch him lead them home.

On a humid Illinois afternoon in 1996, Binti Jua quietly crossed a moat, lifted a fallen child into her arms, and carried him to safety with the tenderness she once had to be taught.

A border collie who learned over a thousand words, Chaser spent her life proving that intelligence is just another form of devotion.

Treo walked point through Helmand’s killing trails, calmly sniffing out the invisible bombs that let every man behind him walk home.

She found the bomb, knew what it meant, and stayed anyway.

Apollo was the first search-and-rescue dog to reach Ground Zero and worked until his paws burned.

A war mastiff named Dragon kept vigil over his fallen Templar master for three days amid the stench and chaos of Acre.

In the summer fog of 1958, a wild sea lion named Etta dove into a riptide twice to push two drowning children back toward safety.

A Korean War racehorse turned battlefield legend, Reckless made 51 trips under fire in a single day and became a Marine through sheer will and endurance.

The fearless French Malinois who led the charge in Saint-Denis and gave his life hunting terrorists in 2015.

Two sled dogs, Togo and Balto, pushed through the deadliest winter Alaska could throw at them to carry a town’s last hope for survival.

Hachikō became Tokyo’s quiet heartbeat of devotion, waiting nearly a decade at Shibuya Station for a master who never returned.