Rescue Stories

Every November, millions of Americans take stock of the things for which they are thankful.

Tobias and Buster were born on a small goat dairy.

When this little piglet was rescued, he was suffering from a joint infection that followed a leg injury he received in the overcrowded conditions he lived in at a local farmer’s petting zoo and pumpkin patch.

Inspired by the local food movement and the novelty of do-it-yourself meat, a food writer in California bought a baby Hampshire pig.

The summer of 2011 brought two very determined piglets to our New York Shelter.

Scooter was born a runt, a class of creature to which the mores of farming are particularly unkind. Runts are commonly allowed to perish of neglect or disposed of in some brutal manner.

Eleven calves had been purchased by a man looking to raise them for cheap beef.

To the dairy farmers who bred her, she was disposable. To the workers at the stockyard where she was brought for auction, she was negligible. To her new family at Farm Sanctuary, however, Fanny is precious.

Sonny was likely less than one day old when we found him lying motionless in a filthy stockyard pen.

The sight of five male dairy calves in a small dirt pen greeted Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter Field Services Manager Todd Stosuy and an accompanying veterinarian when they arrived at the property neighbors had reported.