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.

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.

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.

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.

One winter day, a Red Bluff, California couple came home to a 20-pound pink surprise: a lone piglet was grazing contentedly in their yard.

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.

He had only been in this world one day, but it was about to be his last.