Inside the bag, the two kittens struggled in darkness—confused, weakened and afraid. Their littermates had been horribly mangled by the traffic on the rural Iowa highway, and it seemed the next car barreling down the road would seal their fate as well.

But when fate did intervene, it came not in the form of a speeding car, but a courageous dognamed Reagan. The floppy-eared pooch snatched a bag of cat food out of the road, and dragged it all the way home.