Once a case is investigated--often ending with the perpetrator being hauled into the back of an ASPCA squad car (which looks just like a New York Police Department car)--the narrative follows the animal's recovery at the ASPCA hospital and eventual adoption into a good home.

FORBES: Law & Order, Animal Edition

The squad car came up the driveway at eleven-thirty, by my watch.

NEWYORKER: Wakefield

Zegerman by first one and then a second squad car pulling up outside the building, their sun-muted siren lights twirling unnoticed by anyone but him.

NEWYORKER: The Valetudinarian

Later in Brooklyn, a squad car hit its siren and lights as he tried to pull a U-turn on Flatbush Avenue to get back to the Brooklyn Bridge.

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