Eleven calves had been purchased by a man looking to raise them for cheap beef.

To the dairy farmers who bred her, she was disposable. To the workers at the stockyard where she was brought for auction, she was negligible. To her new family at Farm Sanctuary, however, Fanny is precious.

Sonny was likely less than one day old when we found him lying motionless in a filthy stockyard pen.

When rescuers arrived to the aid of eleven neglected pygmy goats, they found a grim scene.

Eileen and Shannon were scared and exhausted when they arrived at our New York Shelter.

It’s not often that you see anything too unusual while driving on a boring, busy highway, but every once in a while something will happen on a daily commute that cuts through the malaise and gives you pause.

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.