Dear Farm Sanctuary Member,

Picture yourself looking across a farmyard littered with the bodies of dozens of dead sheep and goats. The corpse of one goat is hanging upside down from a gate...

Through a rusty fence, you notice two eyes peering back at you. A live sheep is standing among the rotting bodies of her herdmates. She looks up at you asking, “How could this happen to us? How could we be discarded as if we are nothing, left without food or water, to starve and die a slow and painful death.”

Certainly, this is not the life that was intended for this poor creature. She is not “nothing” — she is a living, feeling, breathing, beautiful animal who deserves basic comforts and care. She was brought to a production farm to be raised and slaughtered for meat, and as if that wasn’t enough to suffer ... she was subjected to a life of misery.

Until now. Today, this sheep, along with 22 sheep and goats rescued from this Wisconsin farm, are safe at Farm Sanctuary.

When Farm Sanctuary’s cruelty investigators and rescuers find animals suffering and crying out for help, we cannot turn away.

We know that every caring animal advocate and every Farm Sanctuary member would want us to save these animals and give them the care they so desperately need.
That’s why we so urgently need your help today. To continue our rescue and shelter work each year, we count on your support.

Today, we are providing daily care for almost 1,000 pigs, cattle, goats, rabbits, sheep, turkeys, chickens, ducks, geese, and donkeys. Caring for this number of animals is not easy. It is an enormous task — requiring a team of 11 cleaners, 12 feeders and caregivers, 3 farm maintenance staff and two shelter directors.

Our budget just to continue providing these necessities for the hundreds of individuals in our care is $900,000. When Farm Sanctuary rescues an animal, we make a lifelong commitment to ensuring the highest standard of care ... a warm, safe bed to sleep in, nourishing food and fresh water, plentiful pasture space to run and play in, routine health checks and veterinary care, and, of course, the love of our caregiver team. Our caregivers are on-site 24-hours a day, 365 days a year.

With the ongoing commitment of Farm Sanctuary’s shelter supporters, we are providing victims of the food animal industry a life they once only dreamed of. In a world that does not value the life of a chicken, goat, or pig, Farm Sanctuary is a rare safe haven for these abused and neglected animals.

Meet a few of the individuals in need of your support!

LINUS was rescued as a precious, 4-day-old jersey calf after he was abandoned at a veterinary clinic, where his mother, a dairy cow, gave birth by caesarian section. Economically useless to the dairy industry simply because males do not produce milk, the farmer left the calf behind with orders to euthanize him. Caring workers at the clinic contacted Farm Sanctuary, and we welcomed the tiny boy with open arms and warm milk bottles in hand. Initially shaky on his new legs and tentative about drinking from a bottle, Linus, who is otherwise healthy and sweet, quickly adapted to his new home. With magical charisma, Linus has made fast friends with a few of the California Shelter’s adult cattle.

SAMSON was rescued from a high school agriculture program by a Farm Sanctuary member. He was the runt of his litter and was very sickly. At over six months of age he weighed only around 60 pounds — piglets of that age normally weigh 200 to 250 pounds. As he would not have received any medical treatment for his condition, it is very likely that he would have died. Instead, this rambunctious and very affectionate piglet journeyed to Farm Sanctuary’s California Shelter for emergency care and a treatment plan to rehabilitate him back to health. Now, he weighs over 500 pounds and is growing into a healthy and handsome boy!

CODY DAY was rescued from the Wisconsin farm described above, where over 60 goats and sheep were abandoned, without food, water or veterinary care. She was found suffering from severe lameness and walking on her knees due to a leg injury resulting from neglect. At Farm Sanctuary’s New York Shelter, she was cared for in a private treatment stall at our Emergency Rescue & Rehabilitation Center so that caregivers could regularly monitor her condition and treat her leg. A splint that was changed daily helped Cody Day regain complete mobility in her leg, and regular physical therapy improved her comfort and agility. Now, Cody Day has joined her surviving herdmates, and can be seen running and playing happily in the pasture!

These animals, and hundreds more, are at Farm Sanctuary’s shelters right now — counting on YOU! This year, we need your support to help meet our immediate shelter needs:

• A new roof for our small animal hospital at our New York Shelter. The original roof is now over 12 years old and in need of replacement to ensure the safety of the animals in intensive care pens.
• A walk-in, large animal scale for our California Shelter. This scale is vital for monitoring the weight of animals bred and genetically engineered to be as large as possible by the meat industry.
• A small animal transport vehicle for animal rescues, deliveries to adoptive placements, and routine veterinary visits.
  

Please, be a vital part of our rescue team by sending as generous a gift as you can for the Rescue & Refuge Fund. Please remember, any extra amount you can donate means another suffering farm animal can be saved, and sheltered. Click here to contribute online now.

You are one of the few people who realize the critical need for farm animal shelters. There are literally hundreds of shelters for cats and dogs, and only a handful of sanctuaries for farm animals. Without caring people like you, animals who have already suffered so much abuse would have no where to go.

Please, help us end their pain and give them the life they each deserve. Thank you.

Yours for farm animals,

Gene Baur (formerly Bauston)
President