“What happened at Painted Meadow Farm was not just a betrayal to the animals, but to well-intended people who believed that they were supporting more healthful, local, and humane alternatives to factory-raised animal products”

In early March, we received a call about a couple of chickens roaming around a rest stop. Knowing how dangerous it is for chickens to be loose and unprotected, we immediately set out to see if we could locate them. After a long and thorough search of the area where they were spotted, we still hadn’t located the birds. We were close to giving up, fearing the worst, when we noticed a small, white ball of fluff in a dense patch of trees and brush.

Law challenged on First Amendment, Equal Protection, Due Process Grounds

Called to the scene of a neglect case in New York’s Hudson Valley last week, we walked onto a property that was essentially part garbage dump, part graveyard.

Bessie, Satchmo, and Bird spent the first four months of their lives in an aquarium on a third-floor apartment balcony in Los Angeles County.

The rescue of three ducklings began on the morning of Monday, August 31, when National Placement Coordinator Alicia Pell received an urgent message.

Animal husbandry projects through programs like Future Farmers of America (FFA) and 4-H typically end with participants auctioning off the animals they have raised, knowing that their erstwhile companions will be headed to slaughter.

It took two days for animal advocate Julie Robertson to capture Anna and Maybelle.

Paul Harvey wasn’t crazy about us at first. After all, he’d been living among a very big group of goats with little in the way of daily human interaction, so he didn’t know quite what to make of all the attention he was suddenly receiving at our Southern California Shelter.

Farm Sanctuary to bring 12 goats from deplorable conditions at a Cornwall cheese-making operation to sanctuary at their bucolic 175-acre New York Shelter in Watkins Glen