Rescue Stories

Our friend Nate is one powerful fellow — and our staff has the bruises to prove it. Nate was one of four goats recently dumped in a small town near our New York Shelter.

Late in the 2012 baseball season, New York Mets relief pitcher Tim Byrdak secretly brought a small feathered newcomer into the clubhouse — a chicken he claimed was sent by the Yankees to taunt Mets teammate Frank Francisco, who had been calling the Yankees “chickens” during a subway series run.

This June, a certain backyard bird feeder in a rural setting near Rochester, New York, attracted some unusual visitors.

For egg-laying hens in commercial production, even those on “free-range” farms, life ends between the ages of one and two years.

Just a few days before July 4th, Farm Sanctuary’s Emergency Rescue Team arrived at a factory pig farm where we were alerted to the flagrant abuse of a pregnant breeding sow.

A loose dog led a Livingston, California Animal Control officer to Belina.

LAPD officers were performing a narcotics bust when they discovered 68 hens teeming with parasites and suffering from untreated wounds.

When Olivia arrived at our New York Shelter, half her face was missing. While swimming in a pond on the property of her caregivers, she had been attacked by a snapping turtle, who tore into one side of her head, taking out the sinus, the eye and part of the skull.

An individual inquired about adopting young Norman from Livingston Animal Control.

Dotty: Injured, Neglected Goat Gets a New Home, and Soon a New Knee