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

Laverne and Shirley hail from a rather unusual flock. The two belonged not to a commercial flock exploited for wool or meat but to a small group of sheep under the care of a retired nun.

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.

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.

In the very early morning hours of Sunday, Jan. 25, National Shelter Director Susie Coston received a text message about a turkey in central New York who needed a home.

When the Fox reality show “Utopia” was canceled this year, its producers were left with an unusual conundrum.

Says de Rossi: “Turkeys are just as smart, loving, and full of feeling my dogs”

Recently, staff members at our New York Shelter were greeted by the sight of 24 baby turkeys when they arrived at work early one morning.

During our Celebration for the Turkeys events and the Adopt a Turkey Project in November, everyone at Farm Sanctuary is talking turkey.

Recently, Farm Sanctuary National Shelter Director Susie Coston attended the New York City premiere of The Ghosts in Our Machine, a documentary that illuminates the lives of animals suffering within the global industries of food, fashion, entertainment, and research.