Rescue & Adoptions

Featured Rescues

Every year Farm Sanctuary's shelters open their doors to suffering farm animals. Some of the animals are found during our investigations of stockyards, factory farms and slaughterhouses - animals who are abandoned at auctions when they could no longer walk, or thrown into dumpsters because they were no longer "productive." Other animals come to Farm Sanctuary from SPCA's and humane societies that need our assistance when farm animals are left to starve to death. And, some of the animals who reside at Farm Sanctuary took matters into their own hooves and escaped from the slaughterhouse! But all of the animals have one thing in common - they needed refuge from the cruelties of "food animal" production and Farm Sanctuary was there to provide the safe haven they desperately needed. Here are some of Farm Sanctuary's heartwarming "happy endings" stories...

2012 Featured Rescues

2011 Featured Rescues

2010 Featured Rescues

2009 Featured Rescues

2008 Featured Rescues

2007 Featured Rescues

2006 Featured Rescues

2005 Featured Rescues

Past Rescues

Rescued steer finds the friendship he's been yearning for.

Thunder had been living at Nevins Farm, a shelter for animals in Massachusetts. Thunder had many human admirers, but he had no cattle herd to call his own. Because of the kindness and generosity of two Farm Sanctuary members, Thunder was brought to our New York Shelter. Read more about what happened when he met our cattle residents.

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