Rescue Stories

It was not yet Thanksgiving, but everyone at our Orland shelter had turkeys on the brain when 11 poults were dropped off at the sanctuary.

When good Samaritan Rina Deych and her son Julian decided to go food shopping one day in September 2009, they didn’t suspect that a trip to the grocery store would turn into a dramatic rescue.

A Newborn Lamb’s Close Call: Animals bred for food production constantly walk a razor-thin line between life and death that leaves them vulnerable to the most devastating abuses.

This summer, a certain intersection of New York City’s Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx seems to have turned into a conduit for wayward farm animals in search of refuge.

Sick, frail, and yet possessing an indomitable will to live, a 7-month-old goat with a seeming “sixth sense” for direction was found running along a busy road just miles from Farm Sanctuary after escaping from a slaughterhouse in nearby Newfield, New York.

The University of California, Davis Arboretum provides 100 acres of natural refuge for harried people and a home for many wild animals, and Lake Spafford, which runs through the center of this peaceful preserve, is an ideal environment for a variety of waterfowl, amphibians and fish.

You’ve heard of scapegoats, but how about escapegoats?

Why did this chicken cross the road? No one’s quite sure, but she must have traveled far to get to the suburban backyard in Carmichael, California where two young animal-loving siblings named Daniel (age 13) and Emma (age 10) Mecham found her wandering around.

Lucas started life in 2006 at the petting zoo of a summer day camp in Los Angeles, but even though this sweet pig got lots of attention from adoring kids, he was suffering from severe neglect.

The little goat was alone as he wandered through Pelham Bay Park, but his predicament was about to place him in growing company.