This week, the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina reinstated a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of North Carolina’s “ag-gag” law.

Our thoughts are with North Carolina residents today as they brace for the storm, and especially with those who had to leave their homes in the coastal flood region to an uncertain fate.

Barns where terrified animals lived in complete darkness, where a lack of air flow caused the air to reek of ammonia and food and water were nowhere to be found.

In September our New York Shelter welcomed cows Tink, Peter, and Rufio; chickens Mary, Jo, Beth, and Amy; and duck Ping. The animals were skinny and crawling with parasites, and the birds were terrified.

Called to the scene of a neglect case in New York’s Hudson Valley last week, we walked onto a property that was essentially part garbage dump, part graveyard.

Bessie, Satchmo, and Bird spent the first four months of their lives in an aquarium on a third-floor apartment balcony in Los Angeles County.

Laverne and Shirley hail from a rather unusual flock. The two belonged not to a commercial flock exploited for wool or meat but to a small group of sheep under the care of a retired nun.

The rescue of three ducklings began on the morning of Monday, August 31, when National Placement Coordinator Alicia Pell received an urgent message.

Born into the farm-animal equivalent of a puppy mill, Avery had been taken from his mother, painfully castrated, and sold off as a pet before he was even five days old.

It took two days for animal advocate Julie Robertson to capture Anna and Maybelle.