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Bourton Rovers 1st XI (in red) take on Bourton Rovers 2nd XI during the Bourton-on-the-Water Football Match played in the River Windrush on August 30, 2010 in Bourton-on-the-Water, England. (Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)
A white tiger cub strolls through its enclosure during its first outing on August 25, 2010 at the Serengeti animal park in Hodenhagen, central Germany. Four white baby tigers were born at the park on July 14, 2010. (AFP PHOTO JOCHEN LUEBKE)
Toronto Star Picture Editor Wanda Goodwin shares these delightful images from a little known animal sanctuary in Costa Rica. The center shelters over 100 orphaned and injured sloths which receive rehabilitation before being returned to the forest, according to Judy Arroyo, a co-owner of the sanctuary.
A rescued baby sloth rests over a stuffed toy at the Sloth Sanctuary in Cahuita de Limon August 25, 2010. (REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate)
A baby sloth is fed by Teresa Gonzales at the Sloth Sanctuary in Cahuita de Limon August 25, 2010. (REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate)
A rescued baby sloth receives a bath by Teresa Gonzales at the Sloth Sanctuary in Cahuita de Limon August 25, 2010. (REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate)
A rescued sloth receives food at the Sloth Sanctuary in Cahuita de Limon August 25, 2010. (REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate)
A rescued baby sloth sunbathes at the Sloth Sanctuary in Cahuita de Limon August 25, 2010. (REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate)
Volunteer worker Claire Trimmer from Britain holds a sloth while she writes information about them at the Sloth Sanctuary in Cahuita de Limon August 25, 2010. (REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate)
A rescued baby sloth rests at the Sloth Sanctuary in Cahuita de Limon August 25, 2010. (REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate)
Thai veterinarian Phimchanok Srongmongkul holds a baby tiger cub after feeding at the Wildlife Health Unit at the Department of National Parks in Bngkok Thailand on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. Thai authorities found the baby tiger cub that had been drugged and hidden among stuffed toy tigers in the suitcase of a woman flying from Bangkok to Iran, an official and a wildlife protection group said Friday. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Budapest Zoo's polar bear "Lady" arrives on the surface in her pool in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
A Malaysian albino slow loris called Farzin climbs decorative trees made from styrofoam at a nursery in northern Tehran August 16, 2010. (REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl)
Toronto Star Picture Editor Wanda Goodwin highlights images of these cool canine lifeguards in Italy.
They leap from helicopters or speeding boats, bringing aid to swimmers who get into trouble off Italy’s popular beaches.
For these canine lifeguards, the doggie paddle does just fine.
Hundreds of specially trained dogs form Italy’s corps of canine lifeguards, are deployed each summer to help swimmers in need of rescue.These “lifedogs” wear a harness or tow a buoy that victims can grab, or a raft they can sit on to be towed back to shore, and unlike their human counterparts, they can easily jump from helicopters and speeding boats to reach swimmers in trouble.
Salvataggio-Italian School of Canine Lifeguards, lifeguard dogs of the Italian school perform a makeshift rescue operation at an international lifeguard meeting in Winterbach, Germany. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Italian School of Canine Lifeguards)
Mas the dog, and his lifeguard and school founder Ferruccio Pilenga, perform a rescue during a training at Isola D'Elba island, Italy. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Italian School of Canine Lifeguards)
A terranova dog jumps from a lifeguard boat during a training in Isola D'Elba island, Italy. (AP Photo/Courtesy of SICS Italian School of Canine Lifeguards)
Alyssha the dog, and her lifeguard Donatella Pasquale, are lowered from a helicopter during an exercise at Lago D'Iseo lake, Italy. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Italian School of Canine Lifeguards)
Mas the dog, jumps from a helicopter ahead of his lifeguard and school founder Ferruccio Pilenga, during a patent test at Lago D'Iseo lake Italy. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Italian School of Canine Lifeguards)
