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.

Emaciated, injured and critically ill, Debra, Raposal, Annie, and 10 other goats, along with Susie Moo cow, were discovered at a Watsonville, California ranch and slaughterhouse.

When Dan D’Eramo, Farm Sanctuary’s investigator at the time, arrived at Red Barn Farm, he found 70 animals living in abject misery.

Early in November, our New York Shelter responded to an urgent plea from the Ulster County SPCA to assist with the care and placement of ten newborn lambs.

The small oval-shaped sticker had few things printed on it. A series of numbers. A date. And two bar codes.

To look only at the yellow ones, it's not immediately clear that something's wrong. Widen the scope to include the other 38 spunky baby chicks, and the truth becomes grotesquely apparent.

Against unbelievable odds, a newborn calf named Mario has gone from the trash heap to sanctuary.

One evening in late May of 2006, six piglets, ranging in age from two months to four months, stepped out of a transport van and into a cozy pen in our Northern California Shelter’s hospital building.