This summer, a certain intersection of New York City’s Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx seems to have turned into a conduit for wayward farm animals in search of refuge.

Sick, frail, and yet possessing an indomitable will to live, a 7-month-old goat with a seeming “sixth sense” for direction was found running along a busy road just miles from Farm Sanctuary after escaping from a slaughterhouse in nearby Newfield, New York.

You’ve heard of scapegoats, but how about escapegoats?

The little goat was alone as he wandered through Pelham Bay Park, but his predicament was about to place him in growing company.

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.

Wandering aimlessly among the alleyways and busy streets of Brooklyn, NY, Joey, a young floppy-eared goat around six months old, easily stood out to passersby.

In October 2003, Farm Sanctuary was alerted to a tragic case of severe farm animal cruelty. San Diego Animal Control Officers arrived on the property of a man suspected of buying and reselling diseased and wounded stockyard animals for profit.

In the fall of 2002, a caring citizen reported that he found a goat hanging dead in the fence of a Wisconsin farm.

When an animal control officer found Zoop on a cold morning in Denville, New Jersey, the tiny goat could not walk upright or even stand comfortably.

Dino came from a home in Brooklyn, New York. He spent the first five or more years of his life tied to a doghouse on a concrete driveway.