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.

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.

Sirens, flashing lights and feelings of terror set the scene on an Indiana interstate early last month when a transport truck holding 34 cows collided into another vehicle and burst into flames.

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.

Lily: Baby Goat Brought to Safety in the Nick of Time

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.