Sanctuary Galleries
Welcome to sanctuary, places where our farmed animal friends are celebrated for their individuality.
Below you will find individual gallery links for each farmed animal sanctuary that I have thus far visited. To peruse selections by species click here.
Within each gallery you can click on individual images to enlarge. You may also see a black, circular button with the letter "i" in the top right corner - clicking this will bring up info about the individual. To return to the main gallery, click the grouping of four squares in the lower right corner.
I have also included a continually updated Google map listing sanctuary locations, but please note that these may be approximate locations for private sanctuaries. I highly encourage you to visit sanctuaries, but please plan ahead with them to confirm they are able to accommodate your visit.
Grass Valley, California
Founded in 1989 Animal Place is one of the oldest and largest sanctuaries for farmed animals in the country. Nestled on 600-acres in Grass Valley, CA, Animal Place provides refuge to hundreds of neglected farmed animals. In addition to permanent sanctuary, Animal Place's Rescue Ranch is a 60-acre adoption center, placing needy farmed animals into permanent homes.
Chelsea, Michigan
Barn Sanctuary is a hands-on animal sanctuary dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating and caring for farm animal refugees. This includes any animals that have been abused, abandoned, sentenced to death or are victims of natural disasters. We educate the public about the horrific treatment of animals raised and slaughtered by modern day farm factories, and the positive impact that a plant-based diet can have on the environment and our health.
Northport, Michigan
The Black Sheep Crossing Farm Animal Sanctuary was founded in 1998 just outside of Northport, MI, a picturesque and scenic little village close to the tip of Northern Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula, and is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization. The sanctuary's mission is to provide food, shelter, medical care, and love to unwanted, abused, ill, injured, and/or abandoned cats, dogs, birds, and farm animals for the remainder of their lives.
Ellicott City, Maryland
The mission of the Burleigh Manor Animal Sanctuary and Eco-Retreat (BMASER) is to provide a safe and caring, permanent home for unwanted, neglected, or abused farm animals.
The animals in our food supply are living beings with an awareness of themselves and the world around them. How we treat them is a reflection of who we are and how we view our duty on Earth towards other living things.
Our central goal is to inspire change in the way we regard farm animals and the environment through educational programs and eco-friendly practices.
Saugerties, New York
Located in the New York’s Hudson Valley, Catskill Animal Sanctuary (CAS) is a 110-acre haven for horses and farmed animals rescued from cruelty and neglect. In addition to emergency rescue, CAS provides innovative programs that educate the public about the sentience of farm animals, and the devastating impacts of agribusiness and institutionalized cruelty on animals, people, and the planet.
Avondale, Pennsylvania
Chenoa Manor is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization that serves as a safe home for animals with nowhere left to turn. Our sanctuary is home to over 200 animals, including those freed from factory farms, animals used in lab experiments, and various exotic species. Most of Chenoa Manor’s residents were neglected, abused, or en route to slaughter prior to being given a second chance at the sanctuary. Chenoa Manor’s primary mission is two-fold, to serve our animal residents as well as the youth who seek to be here. That mission embodies a sense of unity and respect among the youth, the animals, and the surrounding environment, including the trees, plants, bodies of water and the land itself.
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
Chicken Run Rescue fosters an evolution in critical thought about who is food and who is friend through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption and education.
Every year, domestic fowl, mostly chickens, are stray, abandoned or surrendered in the Metro Area of Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN. These birds are victims of neglect, abuse and abandonment, used for eggs, slaughter, fighting, ritual sacrifice, “nature lessons” or discarded after a hobby no longer holds interest.
Chicken Run provides the birds with love, shelter and vet care and adoptive homes. Chicken Run Rescue is the only urban chicken rescue of its kind.
Herriman, Utah
Ching Farm Rescue and Sanctuary was founded by Faith and Mike Ching in Utah in 1998. At Ching Farm, we fill a need in the Salt Lake area by advocating for farm animals through rescue and education about cruelty-free living. We believe that our advocacy work can help change perceptions of farm animals and create a deeper respect for the rich emotional lives of these animals.
Leesville, South Carolina
Cotton Branch Farm is a sanctuary for abused, neglected, or abandoned animals that do not fall into the categories: cat or dog, or wildlife. Both of those groups of animals have existing organizations to help them. The group of animals we help are: horses, cows, pigs, goats, llamas, emus, chickens and ducks and geese. The purpose of the sanctuary is to rescue such animals, provide them with safe housing and medical care and then adopt them out to suitable homes if possible. We educate the public on ways to keep their animals in a safe, comfortable and healthy state.
Acton, California
Farm Sanctuary was founded in 1986 to combat the abuses of factory farming and encourage a new awareness and understanding about farm animals. Today, Farm Sanctuary is the nation’s largest and most effective farm animal rescue and protection organization.
Our 26-acre Southern California Shelter is located on a beautiful hacienda ranch in Acton, just 45 minutes from Hollywood.
Orland, California
Farm Sanctuary was founded in 1986 to combat the abuses of factory farming and encourage a new awareness and understanding about farm animals. Today, Farm Sanctuary is the nation’s largest and most effective farm animal rescue and protection organization.
Overlooking breathtaking Black Butte Lake, our 300-acre sanctuary in Orland, California is home to more than 300 pigs, sheep, cattle, chickens, and other rescued farm animals. Our Orland sanctuary is located 30 miles west of Chico and 100 miles north of Sacramento.
Watkins Glen, New York
Farm Sanctuary was founded in 1986 to combat the abuses of factory farming and encourage a new awareness and understanding about farm animals. Today, Farm Sanctuary is the nation’s largest and most effective farm animal rescue and protection organization.
Nestled in the beautiful Finger Lakes Region of Upstate New York, the rolling green pastures of Farm Sanctuary’s 175-acre New York shelter are home to more than 500 rescued farm animals. Spend the day with us and take an hour-long guided tour, browse our unique gift shop, learn more about farm animals in our Visitor Center, or enjoy a snack on our scenic deck. We are located next door to Sugar Hill State Forest, just west of Watkins Glen.
Lindstrom, Minnesota
Farmaste Animal Sanctuary offers rescue, rehabilitation and a safe haven to abused, injured, and unwanted farmed animals. We educate the community about the cruelty farmed animals face. We allow them to see our residents as individuals with unique personalities such that people will value them and treat them with respect and kindness. We offer a variety of community outreach programs and camps to promote mindfulness and compassionate living, inspiring change in the way society views and treats farmed animals.
Petaluma, California
Flip Side Sanctuary's mission is to protect animals from neglect and abuse. Inspire change in the way they are seen and treated and advocate for a cruelty free lifestyle.
Providing education about the cruelties inflicted on animals and also showing the intelligence, inquisitiveness and individuality of all of them.
We provide sanctuary so animals can live their full lives providing care, comfort and enrichment.
Warm Springs, Georgia
Full Circle Farm Sanctuary acknowledges that farmed animals are among the most abused animals on the planet. As a counterpoint to the undeniable cruelty and exploitation inherent in factory farming practices and within the animal agriculture industry as a whole, Full Circle Farm Sanctuary exists in order to provide sustained, nurturing, safe and loving lifetime homes for individual farmed animals who otherwise would continue to face horrendous suffering, neglect and horrific, violently premature deaths. Further, we exist to inform and to educate the public in regards to the innate beauty, dignity and worth of each and every individual animal through one-on-one interactions with our precious animal residents. To that end, we further acknowledge that the best way to alleviate animal suffering, sustain the environment, prevent world hunger, support social justice, and improve human health is to embrace the compassionate vegan lifestyle.
Santa Rosa, California
Goatlandia is an animal sanctuary that rescues farm animals and educates the public about the choice for a compassionate lifestyle. In addition to providing a safe and loving forever home to our own feathered and furry family, we also place our rescued animal friends into other loving homes through our adoption program. We do all kind of events both here at the sanctuary and out in the community.
Silverton, Oregon
The mission of Green Acres Farm Sanctuary is the prevention of cruelty to, and the commercialization of animals, especially farmed animals. We put this mission into action by providing shelter, care and board to abused, abandoned, and unwanted farm animals. We look to inspire change through creating a place where members of the public can have positive interaction with farm animals by providing for their care and the animals can, in turn, educate them about the abusive use of farmed animals.
Ravenna, Ohio
Happy Trails Farm Animal Sanctuary rescues, rehabilitates and re-homes criminally abused, neglected and abandoned farm animals.
Rescue – working in cooperation with law enforcement and county humane organizations we provide our service to Ohio and any state beyond requesting assistance.
Rehabilitation – providing the veterinary attention, nutrition, and maintenance care and nurture to each animal who enters the sanctuary.
Re-home – networking to find loving and forever homes for each animal based on the best match of people, personalities and facilities.
Stockton, California
Our mission is to provide life-long care for our rescued animals, and to educate the public about humane animal care and practices. We rehabilitate, both physically and psychologically, mistreated animals and, if possible, we will find appropriate homes for them. In an effort to prevent further cruelty to these animals, we educate the public on caring for companion animals as well as on issues concerning farmed animals.
Nestled in fertile farmland in California’s San Joaquin Valley, our two-acre rescue and rehabilitation sanctuary is home to 10 unique animal species. Our life-saving animal protection efforts are focused primarily on rabbits and birds.
Verona, Wisconsin
Our mission is to provide care for farm animals in need, nurture people through the human-animal bond, and foster respect and kindness toward animals and each other. Heartland Farm Sanctuary, which opened in 2010, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping homeless farm animals in Wisconsin, and building connections between animals and vulnerable youth. We created Heartland to provide a safe, peaceful environment where youth and farm animals could come together to heal, grow, and have fun.
Dalton, Pennsylvania
Indraloka Animal Sanctuary provides “heaven on earth” for farm animals that have nowhere else to turn. We inform, inspire, and empower the community, especially children, on ways in which we can better care for ourselves and the environment while helping animals in need. We advocate for a kind and compassionate diet and lifestyle that protects animals, the earth, and our own health.
Citra, Florida
Kindred Spirits is a non-profit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, dedicated to ending the abuse and suffering of farm animals through direct rescue, advocacy and education. We seek to provide a place where people can connect with these sentient beings and discover their unique (and often humorous!) personalities. Kindred Spirit is currently home to almost 150 rescued farm animals from all over the United States. Our residents come to us from abuse and neglect cases, factory farms or because they have a special need. At KSS these animals have found their forever home where they will be free from pain and suffering and from ever being used for food!
Ashtabula, Ohio
Lasa Sanctuary's mission is to promote vegan living through education and experience designed to celebrate the interconnectedness of all living beings, to provide sanctuary to animals in need, and to share our message of compassionate healing and enduring love throughout the human community.
Scio, Oregon
The Lighthouse Farm Sanctuary was formed to guide animals in need to the safety of calm waters. The Board of Directors, volunteers and supporters are dedicated to light the lantern to guide those abused and neglected animals; to prevent disasters; and to prevent needless loss of life. A guiding light to safe harbor.
As a 501(c)(3) organization, we are dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming of abused and neglected farm animals. We work to educate the community about farm animal welfare and advocate for public policy change. The Sanctuary is home to many types of farm animals including horses, llamas, donkeys, cows goats, sheep, ducks, chickens and even doves, just to name a few.
Erie, Colorado
We are working to grow a farm animal sanctuary that connects community through compassion.
Luvin Arms is a place of refuge for abused, or neglected farm animals. We work to inspire our community to think differently and promote a more compassionate lifestyle through education and outreach programs.
Arlington, Washington
New Moon Farm Goat Rescue and Sanctuary is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and adoption of animals in need. Whether victims of financial difficulties, neglect or abuse, we are committed to taking in unwanted animals brought to us via owner surrender, as well as by animal control. In addition to caring for these animals, New Moon Farm strives to promote compassion and respect for all living creatures through a presence in the community and by offering educational opportunities.
Estacada, Oregon
Out to Pasture Sanctuary is a 501(c)3, all volunteer, non-profit, farm animal sanctuary. Our primary goal is the care and feeding of abused, neglected or abandoned animals including large farm animals, pigs, rabbits, chickens, cats and dogs.
We promote the humane treatment of all animals and advocate for an end to factory farming through public education including leafleting, tabling at public events and newspaper articles in the Portland area. We also promote a vegan diet for reasons of compassion, health and the environment.
Sultan, Washington
Pasado’s Safe Haven is dedicated to ending animal cruelty and neglect.
Our sanctuary is home to hundreds of animals including dogs, cats, and farmed animals. Most arrived from abuse or neglect and now live out their lives in peace and safety.
In addition to providing sanctuary and rehabilitation to animals who have suffered from cruelty and neglect, we advocate for better laws to protect animals and work to educate the public about how they help end animal cruelty – for all animals.
Brooks, Maine
Peace Ridge was founded in 2001 in order to address animal cruelty, neglect and exploitation, and to promote vegan ethics in New England. We advocate for all animals – farmed animals, domestic companion animals, and wildlife. Our mission is to provide permanent sanctuary to once abused and neglected animals, with a particular focus on farmed animals. We also promote compassionate lifestyle choices through humane education.
Deer Trail, Colorado
Our mission at Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary is to provide a safe, loving and permanent home for rescued farmed animals - not accepted at most shelters.
In addition to providing life-long care for the animals, we are dedicated to promoting vegan living as the only way to end the suffering and exploitation of animals.
Clarence, New York
Penelope's Place was inspired by the rescue of Penelope the chicken. This sanctuary is her legacy. Penelope's Place is a micro- sanctuary currently located in Buffalo, NY and serves as a respite to rescued animals. Co-founders Vanessa and Steven Dawson began Penelope's Place in Brooklyn, NY and moved to the Buffalo area to be able to expand the sanctuary beyond the confines of city living. This larger space increases their ability to take in more animals. The grand vision is to not only be a sanctuary for animals but will also be a center for humans to come and receive unique therapeutic healing.
penelopesplacethesanctuary.com
Pittsboro, North Carolina
Piedmont Farm Animal Refuge is a non-profit organization that provides lifelong sanctuary to farm animals in need, educates the public about the cruelties of factory farms, and promotes veganism by offering knowledge, support, and community to people interested in living cruelty-free lifestyles.
Founded in 2012, The Refuge is located in North Carolina just 15 minutes away from the downtowns of Carrboro, Saxapahaw, and Pittsboro and 20 minutes away from downtown Chapel Hill.
Jamestown, Tennessee
The Pig Preserve is a “new way” of doing things the “old way”...A new approach to pigs at risk. The Pig Preserve is an innovative concept designed to provide a safe, natural, healthy life for rescued pigs of all breeds in a less labor intensive way and at a lower cost per pig per year than has traditionally been done. The Pig Preserve differs from a more traditional sanctuary mainly in that we try, to the extent possible, to provide a large, pristine, natural area for the pigs to live in. The Pig Preserve, with 100 acres of land, can offer pigs acres and acres of woods, pastures, ponds, 'hollers' and hills on which to roam.
Poolesville, Maryland
Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary is a 400 acre non-profit refuge in Poolesville, Maryland for farm animals and wildlife that relies entirely on public donations for support. Our mission is to offer care, rehabilitation, and permanent sanctuary for neglected, abused or abandoned farm animals, as well as providing a protected habitat for wildlife. We promote compassion and the humane treatment of all animals by educating the public on farm animal and wildlife issues.
Sequim, Washington
On the outskirts of the City of Sequim, Washington, next to the Olympic National Forest and nearby Olympic National Park lies a hidden valley surrounded by forest, wildlife and views of the Straits of Juan de Fuca. This special place is Precious Life Animal Sanctuary established in 1999 to provide a safe home for animals who have suffered from cruelty and neglect.
preciouslifeanimalsanctuary.org
Dixon, California
Our goal at PreetiRang Sanctuary is to provide a safe, secure and loving home to farmed animals who are in danger of abuse and early death. PreetiRang Sanctuary provides a forever home where they can live in peace and express their natural tendencies.
PreetiRang Sanctuary is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization located near Vacaville in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Nicasio, California
At Rancho Compasión, we provide a home to previously neglected, exploited, and abused farm animals. Founded by Miyoko and Michael Schinner, our home and sanctuary nest in the bucolic town of Nicasio, California, surrounded by beautiful redwood trees, bountiful wildlife, and a rich farming culture. We open our home to a growing number of rescued animals with the support of compassionate family and volunteer caretakers.
Brooklyn, Connecticut
The Riley Farm Rescue's mission is to rescue suffering farm animals and provide them with the quality and lovinghome they deserve through rehabilitation and long-term care. The Riley Farm Rescue brings awareness to the neglect and cruelty farm animals experience through education, special events and by living and promoting a vegan lifestyle.
Spokane, Washington
River's Wish Animal Sanctuary is located on 65 acres in Spokane County and is dedicated to helping animals in need. The sanctuary is named for River, an inspiring dog whose love encouraged us to do more. The mission of River's Wish is to provide care and permanent sanctuary to neglected, abused, homeless and older animals in need and to promote kindness and compassionate lifestyle choices through humane education.
Center City, Minnesota
Rooster Redemption is a microsanctuary devoted to providing a nurturing home to abandoned, exploited, and mistreated roosters. he sanctuary goals are to value each resident as an individual by treating them with dignity, love, and respect, and to advocate for roosters as colorful companions with misunderstood personalities.
Melrose, Florida
Rooterville A Sanctuary provides a permanent home to hundreds of rescued farm animals like pigs, cows, chickens, turkeys, goats and horses. We have rescued these wonderful creatures from appalling conditions of total abuse, neglect and abandonment. Over our history we have saved the lives of thousands of unwanted animals, by providing them with the needed veterinary care to nurse them back to health and the daily feed and shelter to provide them with dignity of life for their remaining years. Rooterville is dedicated to providing compassionate care to animals that have experienced abuse, neglect and abandonment. We are strong animal advocates working to educate the public on the plight of unwanted animals.
Angleton, Texas
Rowdy Girl Sanctuary is the evolution of a very special story of two native Texans—one a multi-generational cattle rancher and former hunter; the other one, his wife, an ex-rodeo lover, and leather cowboy boot collector. Their story has turned into a mission to build an organization that rescues farm animals; and to be good stewards of their care forever in a sanctuary determined to become a state of the art animal care facility, and a plant based/environmental resource education center. Rowdy Girl Sanctuary will inspire other ranchers to experience a paradigm shift, and help them move from participating in the cruelty of factory farming to living out compassion towards the animals whose lives usually end in brutal death. This is Rowdy Girl Sanctuary’s greatest goal.
Jacksonville, Oregon
Located on 55 acres in Oregon's beautiful Applegate valley, Sanctuary One was established in 2007 as the nation's first care farm. It was founded by a small group of visionaries who, despite all the naysayers, never wavered in their belief in the Sanctuary’s mission: to be a safe place for animals and a healing place for people while promoting environmental stewardship.
Sanctuary One provides a safe home to rescued farm animals and house pets. Elderly, disabled, chronically ill, and emotionally traumatized animals who may never be adoptable receive personalized attention, loving rehabilitation, and a peaceful retirement here. The farm includes expansive gardens which not only provide rich vegetables and food for the animals, but opportunities for growth of the people who tend them.
Tijeras, New Mexico
Santuario de Karuna is dedicated to rescuing farm animals ~ Our promise to each individual that arrives at the sanctuary is to make the “rest of their lives the best of lives”. Our primary focus is educating the public about the truths of animal agriculture through living compassionately and humane education as a means to end the suffering of these amazing, sentient beings.
Marysville, Ohio
Sunrise Sanctuary Inc is a non-profit organization that rescues and cares for farmed and companion animals who were abandoned, abused, or neglected. Sunrise encourages more humane and compassionate behaviors and believes that each living creature has value and deserves to live free of suffering and exploitation.
Half Moon Bay, California
Sweet Farm is a Half Moon Bay non-profit farm animal sanctuary and heirloom vegetable farm. Our mission is to empower people with the knowledge needed to live a more humane and sustainable life. Rescue, rehabilitation, education, and outreach coupled with animal and agriculture based experiences combine to provide a positive learning experience about the many impacts of our daily food choices. Central to Sweet Farm's mission is to empower people with the knowledge needed to take simple steps to lead a more humane lifestyle and create a better world for farm animals. In addition to its focus on animal welfare, Sweet Farm is devoted to developing agricultural based education programs. Through these programs we teach the public about the impact of factory farming on plants, specifically the loss of the bio-diversity that is threatening our food system.
Montague, New Jersey
Tamerlaine wants to give people the opportunity to get to know farmed animals as the individuals they each are. As a sanctuary, we can only ever rescue a drop in the bucket from the billions exploited and killed, but we can provide the individuals we rescue the best possible lives and help tell their stories to inspire change and help those still suffering. And so we rescue and rehabilitate, provide lifelong care, and seek to educate the public about these issues to create a more compassionate world.
Spokane, Washington
Terra Farm Sanctuary provides a compassionate home for retired, unwanted, and abused animals to live out their lives respected and free from harm. Our mission is to protect these individuals while providing for their wellbeing and comfort, allowing them to thrive in a place of solace. They will not work, perform, or otherwise produce while living out their natural lives in peace.
Founded in 2016, Terra is located in northwest Spokane County, on the edge of Indian Prairie, in the midst of towering pines and meandering wildlife. We promote harmonious vegan living and educate to raise public awareness of the crisis faced by all farmed and commoditized beings.
Kenosha, Wisconsin
Tiny Hooves is dedicated to the rescue and rehab of farm animals and inspiring the change in the human and animal bond. We promise to provide shelter, care, and rehabilitation for abused, neglected, abandoned, and unwanted small breed farm animals, including ones that can no longer be cared for by their owners. They deserve our respect and would rejoice in a world where they could live harmoniously with the human animal. It starts with you.
Irvine, Kentucky
Wild Earth envisions a new food system where plants, animals and people thrive within the natural world through a sustainable system of mutual aid. Animals are rescued from abusive industrial farming operations and brought to the farm to live out their natural lives. At Wild Earth, animals are not only given a chance to recover from intensive confinement and suffering, but are also offered a life lived more in line with their nature, one in which they can participate fully in the local ecosystem and contribute to its biological systems. We are working towards a future where farmed animals, once exploited, can attain a different value through their bonding with people and through forming symbiotic relationships with plants grown for food.
Newberg, Oregon
Located on 98 acres in Newberg Oregon, Wildwood Farm Sanctuary is a haven for farm animals and wildlife alike. We provide live-long refuge and rehabilitation for abused and abandoned farm animals.
Through our mission and the lives of our beloved residents in this special place, we aspire to inspire! Our greatest hope is to help open eyes and reshape the way humans view and treat farm animals by considering a compassionate and cruelty-free way of living.
