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.

Thelma is adored. Thelma is also safe, healthy, and surrounded by friends. But that wasn’t always the case.

The woman who brought three Silkie roosters to our New York Shelter this winter never meant to have any roosters in the first place.

2015 Featured Animal Rescues

Carlee is someone, not something. She is not a lamb chop. She is not merchandise. And she is certainly not a gift to be thoughtlessly bestowed on an unprepared child.

Martha Stewart is the latest celebrity to stand up for New Jersey’s pigs

Philadelphia lawyer submits more than 235,000 signatures in support of basic humane standards for “the most abused animals on the face of the planet”

Just days before they would have been transported to slaughter, a flock of more than 300 hens from a Pennsylvania egg farm got a ride in Farm Sanctuary’s state-of-the-art rescue van instead.

When one door closes, so they say, another opens. This, however, is rarely the case for abandoned farm animals.

When Gwendolyn and Gavin arrived at our New York Shelter, they were in rough shape.