Rescue & Adoptions

Featured Rescues

Every year Farm Sanctuary's shelters open their doors to suffering farm animals. Some of the animals are found during our investigations of stockyards, factory farms and slaughterhouses - animals who are abandoned at auctions when they could no longer walk, or thrown into dumpsters because they were no longer "productive." Other animals come to Farm Sanctuary from SPCA's and humane societies that need our assistance when farm animals are left to starve to death. And, some of the animals who reside at Farm Sanctuary took matters into their own hooves and escaped from the slaughterhouse! But all of the animals have one thing in common - they needed refuge from the cruelties of "food animal" production and Farm Sanctuary was there to provide the safe haven they desperately needed. Here are some of Farm Sanctuary's heartwarming "happy endings" stories...

2008 Featured Rescues

2007 Featured Rescues

2006 Featured Rescues

2005 Featured Rescues

Tiny Chicks Live Large at the New York Shelter

Pan, Peanut and friends were only days old when they became inventory at a feed store. Dehydrated and weak, the chicks huddled together in cages, dying one by one as people around them failed to see that they lived, breathed and suffered too.
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Rescued, pregnant sheep about to give birth and need your help

Turn heads in the barnyard and beyond with the Farm Sanctuary Hooded Zip Sweatshirt

Good News for Teachers! The Cultivating Compassion program makes it easy to bring compassion to the classroom.