When a man shoots an owl that has been taking his chickens and the owl does not die, the man decides to keep the animal alive and let it suffer—only to be mocked and outsmarted by the bird.

A tenant couple cares for a handful of quails, despite the concern that their landlords next door have for their garden. When winter comes, the quails have disappeared, leaving the couple to hope they will return in the spring.

Freelance worker Alex Lovegood is employed by the peculiar poultry psychologist Dr. Nestor to help him breed chickens undercover in a Paris hotel. Alex quickly becomes the doctor’s personal assistant, mediating his volatile behavior to keep him in others’ good graces.

A priest dining on a dock in Spain proves a point about how humans only feel pity for things that they see in front of them when a pigeon starts drowning in the water.

An innocent schoolteacher attempting to memorialize a dead crow experiences supernatural forces disturbing her quiet neighborhood.

A greedy old landlord contemplates the end of his life as his tenacious tenant's demands of reparation for his wife's death drives him closer to madness. Nearing the end of his life, a stingy landlord refuses to pay for his tenant's funeral bill and becomes entranced by a pregnant squatter on his property.

A farm boy kills a female snake, protecting her babies. He later learns that there are consequences for his actions.

Humanity has eliminated all plants and animals in a futuristic world that isn't meant for human consumption. One man refuses to kill his pet animals and plants, and the government tries to convince him to comply.

When a group of farmers notice that they’re being robbed in the night, they discover the culprit to be a loveable skeletal horse.

Despite her parent's desires, a girl falls in love with the son of a farmer who she admires because he kills injured animals to put them out of their misery.