It was not yet Thanksgiving, but everyone at our Orland shelter had turkeys on the brain when 11 poults were dropped off at the sanctuary.

A Newborn Lamb’s Close Call: Animals bred for food production constantly walk a razor-thin line between life and death that leaves them vulnerable to the most devastating abuses.

The University of California, Davis Arboretum provides 100 acres of natural refuge for harried people and a home for many wild animals, and Lake Spafford, which runs through the center of this peaceful preserve, is an ideal environment for a variety of waterfowl, amphibians and fish.

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

Disoriented, lost and terrified without her flock, Wendy was a lone sheep on the loose near Sacramento, California until she found herself stuck in a roadside ditch full of water and mud, completely unable to move.

It’s a bird … it’s a plane … no … it’s Fiona: the newest piglet at our New York Shelter!

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.

Since 1986, Farm Sanctuary has performed hundreds of rescues. During the summer of 2008, we faced one of our most daunting.

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