When Officer Art Ferrario approached the residence about which a concerned neighbor had called Merced County Animal Control, he was dismayed to see that the caller’s report was all too accurate.

In early March, a compassionate woman in the Finger Lakes region came across a group of animals on a rural property in a terrible state of neglect.

Early last year, Compassion Over Killing sent an undercover investigator with a hidden camera into the Cal-Cruz Hatchery in California to document the treatment of the ducklings and chicks being processed there.

When the Hillside SPCA in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania received a call about a situation of cruelty at a Pottsville farm, Humane Officer Denise Turkavage went to investigate. What she found was profoundly disturbing.

Every day as she passed a home in Redding, California, a compassionate resident saw a goat tied to a tire in a yard and decided to take a closer look.

Every year on Yom Kippur, people of Jewish faith seek atonement through fasting and other traditional observances, but there remains a very small segment of believers who endeavor to cleanse their sins by practicing a rite of animal sacrifice.

When good Samaritan Rina Deych and her son Julian decided to go food shopping one day in September 2009, they didn’t suspect that a trip to the grocery store would turn into a dramatic rescue.

A Newborn Lamb’s Close Call: Animals bred for food production constantly walk a razor-thin line between life and death that leaves them vulnerable to the most devastating abuses.

This summer, a certain intersection of New York City’s Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx seems to have turned into a conduit for wayward farm animals in search of refuge.

The University of California, Davis Arboretum provides 100 acres of natural refuge for harried people and a home for many wild animals, and Lake Spafford, which runs through the center of this peaceful preserve, is an ideal environment for a variety of waterfowl, amphibians and fish.