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...

2010 Featured Rescues

2009 Featured Rescues

2008 Featured Rescues

2007 Featured Rescues

2006 Featured Rescues

2005 Featured Rescues

Past Rescues

Melvin Makes a Home at Farm Sanctuary

Every day as she passed a home in Redding, California, a compassionate citizen saw a goat tied up in a yard without shelter, food or water. Worried for his life, she called us. A few short weeks later, Melvin found refuge at our California Shelter. Read more.

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