Rescue Stories

Max was just three weeks old when he arrived at Farm Sanctuary, but he had already been through so much.

Five animals' lives have been saved thanks to a group of courageous Fullerton Union High Future Farmers of America students who made an unlikely decision: To let them live.

We see cases like Dixon’s all too often: too many calves lose their families and their lives, just for being born male.

Because of the bravery of a group of compassionate students at Fullteron High in California, two sheep and three goats will now happily out their lives on sanctuaries.

Thanks to one compassionate family, Princess — a former dairy cow— now receives the royal treatment at Farm Sanctuary!

It was around Valentine’s Day when we got the call to help a calf with a broken heart.

Alone, abandoned, and tied to a tree in a Brooklyn park in the pouring rain, Officer Cal sheep could not possibly have imagined the comfortable, love-filled life that awaited him.

On March 19 a construction team arrived at their worksite in the Bronx expecting business as usual.

In the waning hours of 2018, sightings of a mysterious “cow in the woods” began to be reported in the town of New Britain, Conn. (or, as New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart soon dubbed it in a memorable hashtag, #MooBritain).

America owes a lot to the oft-mocked donkey. After all, it was on their backs that much of the West was won.