This summer, a northern California wildlife rescuer was walking in her neighborhood when she saw a group of children tossing something back and forth among themselves.

Albert was an escape artist. This miniature donkey snuck off his caregiver’s property in Northern California so many times that the local police decided they’d had enough of him.

To many, a small backyard chicken flock conveys the image of an idyllic urban homestead — the very antithesis of the factory egg farm. But for nearly all backyard hens, life begins the same way it does for factory farmed birds, and it often ends much the same way as well.

Turpentine was surely destined for someone’s dinner table. Thanks to a Farm Sanctuary member, however, this handsome fellow is busy charming caregivers and visitors at our New York Shelter instead.

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.