Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood carving, is drawn by his spunky but angry friend Sistine into a plan to free a caged tiger.

When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.

Rocky's husband Bob was just forty-two when she discovered him lying cold and lifeless on the bathroom floor, and Rocky's world changed forever. Quitting her job, chopping off all her hair, she leaves Massachusetts, reinventing her past and taking a job as Animal Control Warden on Peak's Island, a tiny speck off the coast of Maine and a million miles away from everything she's lost. She leaves her career as a psychologist behind, only to find friendship...

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Mandy Hope begins to have suspicions about a local breeder after her Dad diagnoses an Old English sheepdog puppy as deaf at Animal Ark and then finds another sheepdog puppy abandoned and weak.

"In the world of dogs, there is now more awareness than ever of the need to provide enrichment, especially in shelters. But what exactly is enrichment? The concept is pretty straightforward: Learn what your dog's needs are, and then structure an environment and routine that allows them to engage in behaviors they find enriching, while offering them opportunities to perform their natural or instinctual behaviors. Aside from the limitations we have...

Libby visits her neighbor's spirited horse Thunder every day, grooming and riding him, and when Mr. Porter starts to abuse Thunder she decides to steal him away to safety, with the help of her new friend Griff.