Vito and Clancy: Runaways Steer Their Way Toward New York Shelter

Left to suffer in a state of severe neglect on a property in northern California, Oliver and another tiny calf were so malnourished that they had nearly starved to death by the time local authorities came to confiscate them.

Gloria lived at a racetrack, but she wasn’t there to run, and she didn’t.

After touring with her boyfriend’s band, Lanore Hahn was anticipating a relatively uneventful return journey back to her house in Wisconsin when fate intervened in the form of a tiny piglet now named Kim Gordon.

Lily: Baby Goat Brought to Safety in the Nick of Time

One winter day, a Red Bluff, California couple came home to a 20-pound pink surprise: a lone piglet was grazing contentedly in their yard.

He had only been in this world one day, but it was about to be his last.

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.

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.

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