Rescue Stories

Recently, an establishment in Syracuse was asked to take on two unusual boarders, one of whom had been brought into town for a few weeks to appear in a university production of Sam Shepard’s “The Curse of the Starving Class.”

Eileen and Shannon were scared and exhausted when they arrived at our New York Shelter.

There is no question that some of the most dismal scenes unfold at stockyard auctions across the U.S.

Vinnie is what those in the poultry industry call a “broiler” – a chicken bred for meat.

Of all the tiny piglets in a crowded pen at a busy New York stockyard, Riley was the smallest and was visibly suffering from multiple ailments.

After pulling over a car that cut him off on the road, a patrol officer with the Morgan Hill, California Police Department heard what he thought was the sound of a baby crying coming from the trunk.

It’s not often that you see anything too unusual while driving on a boring, busy highway, but every once in a while something will happen on a daily commute that cuts through the malaise and gives you pause.

When opportunity knocks, most people are compelled to answer … but when it comes in an unexpected form, it can cause quite a stir.

Vito and Clancy: Runaways Steer Their Way Toward New York Shelter

Left to suffer in a state of severe neglect on a property in northern California, Oliver and another tiny calf were so malnourished that they had nearly starved to death by the time local authorities came to confiscate them.