A couple live in the woods training greyhounds and raising their young son. When an unexpected guest overstays his visit, the husband takes matters into his own hands.

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 family's beloved dog dies during a storm, and they bury him in their backyard — only to find the same dog scratching at their door three days later, back from the dead.

After watching a cattle drive on the Great Plains, a cow tells her young a grim tale of the cattle who get sent to factories to be slaughtered and the one cow who escaped.

A naturalist's boyfriend offers to put her elderly dog down, but he finds it difficult as he thinks about his relationship.

When a middle-aged woman goes on a hike with a man she is seeing, a mastiff attacks the man. The woman wonders whether the dog or the relationship itself is the bigger danger.

A girl frantically searches for her missing dog. She fears that the neighbor may harm her dog, so she must quickly find him.

A retired U.S. Army colonel develops an unexpected appreciation for the animal life around him, which leads him to make significant changes to his own life.

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

A researcher and his assistant conduct neuropsychological experiments on dogs with the understanding that the dogs will be terminated immediately after, but the reality of their killing is much more difficult to cope with.