Bessie, Satchmo, and Bird spent the first four months of their lives in an aquarium on a third-floor apartment balcony in Los Angeles County.

Thelma is adored. Thelma is also safe, healthy, and surrounded by friends. But that wasn’t always the case.

Laverne and Shirley hail from a rather unusual flock. The two belonged not to a commercial flock exploited for wool or meat but to a small group of sheep under the care of a retired nun.

The rescue of three ducklings began on the morning of Monday, August 31, when National Placement Coordinator Alicia Pell received an urgent message.

Born into the farm-animal equivalent of a puppy mill, Avery had been taken from his mother, painfully castrated, and sold off as a pet before he was even five days old.

Animal husbandry projects through programs like Future Farmers of America (FFA) and 4-H typically end with participants auctioning off the animals they have raised, knowing that their erstwhile companions will be headed to slaughter.

It took two days for animal advocate Julie Robertson to capture Anna and Maybelle.

Paul Harvey wasn’t crazy about us at first. After all, he’d been living among a very big group of goats with little in the way of daily human interaction, so he didn’t know quite what to make of all the attention he was suddenly receiving at our Southern California Shelter.

This spring brought two very special new residents — both of them blind — to our Northern California Shelter.