It was the Thursday before Memorial Day, one of the busiest travel weekends of the year, when we got the call: 60 “broiler” chickens had fallen off a transport truck headed for a Brooklyn live market.

All Ferdinand wanted was a few pears, but after climbing over a four-foot fence and "destroying" five pear trees on the Santa Cruz farm where he lived, the owner of the farm threatened to shoot and eat him!

Emma lay by the side of the road for hours, then days. Consumed by the pain in her back right leg, she may have thought help wasn’t going to come.

When horse-rescuer Kelly first caught sight of Valentino, he was struggling down a stockyard aisle on his knees as workers goaded him with whips and bats. He was only about a day old, one of many newborn calves brought to New Holland Auction in Pennsylvania that day.

Many people think of pygmy goats as a pet breed, but like their larger cousins, they are often slaughtered for meat.

Sonoma County Animal Services recently had occasion for a visit to wine country, but it wasn’t for a tasting tour.

The year of the sheep began on Feb. 19, but we were celebrating two days early at our New York Shelter when new lamb Hazelton finally began nursing.

In the very early morning hours of Sunday, Jan. 25, National Shelter Director Susie Coston received a text message about a turkey in central New York who needed a home.

The woman who brought three Silkie roosters to our New York Shelter this winter never meant to have any roosters in the first place.

Cattle rustling may not be as common now as it was in the days of the Wild West, but it does still happen — just ask the Riverside, CA, police.