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.

After touring with her boyfriend’s band, Lanore Hahn was anticipating a relatively uneventful return journey back to her house in Wisconsin when fate intervened in the form of a tiny piglet now named Kim Gordon.

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.

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.

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.

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.