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

Recently, we received a call from the Cattaraugus County SPCA, a no-kill animal shelter about 90 minutes south of Buffalo, New York.

After a nine-hour journey from Ohio to New York, "Freedom" the cow, who captured national media attention when she escaped from a Cincinnati slaughterhouse, finally arrived at her new home.

Scribbles thinks he’s a lap goat. This curious youngster loves people, and if he isn’t climbing or exploring, he is probably snuggling in a caregiver’s embrace.