Rescue Stories

One evening in late May of 2006, six piglets, ranging in age from two months to four months, stepped out of a transport van and into a cozy pen in our Northern California Shelter’s hospital building.

Wandering aimlessly among the alleyways and busy streets of Brooklyn, NY, Joey, a young floppy-eared goat around six months old, easily stood out to passersby.

In early October 2006, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) in New York City was alerted to a case of animal neglect in a Brooklyn garage.

On August 3, 2006 Farm Sanctuary welcomed 11 baby turkeys to its Orland, CA shelter.

In October 2003, Farm Sanctuary was alerted to a tragic case of severe farm animal cruelty. San Diego Animal Control Officers arrived on the property of a man suspected of buying and reselling diseased and wounded stockyard animals for profit.

One hundred and sixty-seven pigs were the winners in a dramatic showdown between the animal rights movement and the pork industry just outside of Washington, D.C..

Before Hurricane Katrina made landfall in late August 2005, businesses in the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi were raising an estimated 635 million farm animals for food.

For seven long months after escaping an auction house in Vermont in April 2005, Annie Dodge wandered the countryside, evading capture and doing her best to survive on her own.

SPCA Animal Cruelty Officer, Scott Mazzo, first investigated the property of Ernesto Diaz after receiving a complaint from a humane agency in another New York county where Mr. Diaz had brought chickens to sell.

After having a rough start in life, a very special cow named Linda is now living in peace and comfort at Farm Sanctuary's New York Shelter.