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.

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.

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

Disoriented, lost and terrified without her flock, Wendy was a lone sheep on the loose near Sacramento, California until she found herself stuck in a roadside ditch full of water and mud, completely unable to move.

Standing just over a foot high and weighing about 10 pounds, Jack is barely bigger than a large rooster; but the amount of love this tiny goat has to share is immeasurable.

Andre, Albert and 18 other chickens once lived in misery at a high school in Canandaigua, New York.

Two large bi-coastal rescues carried out in December recently saw more than 200 layer hens once destined for slaughter to safe homes at Farm Sanctuary’s New York and California Shelters.

Since 1986, Farm Sanctuary has performed hundreds of rescues. During the summer of 2008, we faced one of our most daunting.