Rescue Stories

New York City is known for culture more than agriculture, but countless farm animals come into the city every day.

For most jungle fowl, as for most other animals exploited for human entertainment or consumption, life is nasty, brutish, and short.

Demeter, named after the Greek goddess of agriculture, was found in a setting befitting a divine creature: near the Greek antiquities and Roman gardens of Malibu’s Getty Villa.

While walking home with a friend, Manuel, a 9-year-old boy, saw some adults dumping a bag of goslings into a yard for a dog to eat — and the dog was quickly devouring them!

Every year, businesses across the country cash in on Easter by selling baby rabbits, chicks, and ducklings as novelties.

Neglect literally brought Patrick to his knees. Barely able to bear weight on his deformed hooves and contorted legs, he was forced to crawl. At only a year old, he moved like an elderly goat with arthritis.

Butterscotch arrived at our New York Shelter with a swollen mass on her face, which had destroyed her left eye.

At the small dairy farm where Michael was born, the arrival of male calves is quickly followed by the arrival of a man with a truck.

Spring break came early this year for a certain Cornell University resident.

The man who raised Marge abandoned her. He drove away with two of her piglets and left her in a small, squalid pen to die.