Rescue Stories

Of all the tiny piglets in a crowded pen at a busy New York stockyard, Riley was the smallest and was visibly suffering from multiple ailments.

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.

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.

Gloria lived at a racetrack, but she wasn’t there to run, and she didn’t.

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.

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.