Rescue Stories

The year of the sheep began on Feb. 19, but we were celebrating two days early at our New York Shelter when new lamb Hazelton finally began nursing.

In the very early morning hours of Sunday, Jan. 25, National Shelter Director Susie Coston received a text message about a turkey in central New York who needed a home.

The woman who brought three Silkie roosters to our New York Shelter this winter never meant to have any roosters in the first place.

2015 Featured Animal Rescues

Cattle rustling may not be as common now as it was in the days of the Wild West, but it does still happen — just ask the Riverside, CA, police.

Liam was at the hospital for weeks before he could come home. Slowly but surely, vets repaired the damage wrought on his body by a host of ailments and deprivations.

Gus is a special pig with very particular needs. He must be kept safe from squabbles with other pigs, from stress, and from becoming overheated, because a precipitous increase in his heart rate could put him into respiratory arrest.

When the Fox reality show “Utopia” was canceled this year, its producers were left with an unusual conundrum.

Carlee is someone, not something. She is not a lamb chop. She is not merchandise. And she is certainly not a gift to be thoughtlessly bestowed on an unprepared child.

Officers who stopped a truck in Glendale, CA, in early October thought they had a routine traffic violation on their hands.