Jolene was in rough shape when she entered a Southern California animal shelter. Her poor health turned out to be her ticket to sanctuary.

Every year young people throughout the country raise farm animals as part of programs like FFA and 4-H.

Patsy and Dolly arrived at our shelter in Acton, CA, this May. These wild donkeys were captured last spring from a Native American reservation south of Needles, CA, and spent a year in a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) facility.

When we welcomed Romy to our New York Shelter, the young lamb was clinging to life.

Like many of the goats we’ve welcomed to our New York Shelter, Levi came to us through our relationship with New York Animal Care and Control, who found him loose in Brooklyn.

The work of animal rescue and placement takes Farm Sanctuary to all sorts of places.

This spring two sheep, survivors of the meat industry, joined the sanctuary family at our shelter in Acton, CA.

It was the Thursday before Memorial Day, one of the busiest travel weekends of the year, when we got the call: 60 “broiler” chickens had fallen off a transport truck headed for a Brooklyn live market.

All Ferdinand wanted was a few pears, but after climbing over a four-foot fence and "destroying" five pear trees on the Santa Cruz farm where he lived, the owner of the farm threatened to shoot and eat him!

Emma lay by the side of the road for hours, then days. Consumed by the pain in her back right leg, she may have thought help wasn’t going to come.