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.

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.

It was not yet Thanksgiving, but everyone at our Orland shelter had turkeys on the brain when 11 poults were dropped off at the sanctuary.

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.

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.

The little goat was alone as he wandered through Pelham Bay Park, but his predicament was about to place him in growing company.

Disoriented, lost and terrified without her flock, Wendy was a lone sheep on the loose near Sacramento, California until she found herself stuck in a roadside ditch full of water and mud, completely unable to move.

It’s a bird … it’s a plane … no … it’s Fiona: the newest piglet at our New York Shelter!

Andre, Albert and 18 other chickens once lived in misery at a high school in Canandaigua, New York.