About
Rescue Ranch
Started in 2010, Animal Place's Rescue Ranch is our newest farm animal adoption program. Rescued farmed animals arrive at the 60-acre facility in Vacaville, CA where they are treated medically and emotionally, then prepared for a new home. Rescue Ranch will place a special emphasis on the placement and adoption of chickens from the egg-laying industry.
Every year, ten billion land animals are slaughtered. Few ever learn what it is like to be free or treated kindly. Opening our barn doors to adoptable farmed animals means more animals rescued, saved and more people educated about their plight.
There are few programs aimed at placing needy, adoptable farmed animals into permanent homes ? Animal Place is filling that niche with Rescue Ranch.
The dog program is also housed at Rescue Ranch. Animal Place does not adopt dogs out to the public. Instead, dogs arrive at the Rescue Ranch facility and are temporarily housed until rescue agencies can integrate them into adoption programs. Please do not contact Rescue Ranch about adopting dogs, we are not responsible for their placement.
Rescue Ranch is not open to the public, except scheduled visits of prospective adopters.
If you are interested in adopting a farmed animal, email us for an adoption form.
If you need to place a farmed animal, please read the placement information below.
Placement Information
Animal Place cannot accept every animal we receive requests to take. Rescue Ranch ? A Project of Animal Place can only accept animals we already have homes for. Our goal is to facilitate the placement of unwanted animals prior to considering accepting animals at our sanctuary or through our Rescue Ranch program.
We suggest you take these four steps in finding a home for your animal.
(1) Include adoption information in one of our e-alerts
We can include information on the available animal in the e-alert. You need to provide a photo and fill out the Animal Place Placement Form, which we will email to you. We will post the e-alert 1-2 weeks after you submit the form. Please allow another two weeks for possible placement. If no potential adopter contacts you, please email us at info@animalplace.org for further information. If your time-line is urgent, please specify that in the submission form. We cannot guarantee adoption.
(2) Contact other sanctuaries
Visit www.sanctuaries.org and contact other sanctuaries regarding placement. Be sure to contact Farm Sanctuary at info@farmsanctuary.org for information on their Adoption Placement Board and post the animal's information with them as well.
(3) Contact your shelters
Call your local Humane Society or SPCA and inquire about their policy of placing farmed animals and if they will accept the animal for placement. Animal Place, and other sanctuaries, take in critical care cases more frequently.
(4) Post the information
Create a flier with the animal's picture and all pertinent information and post it at animal hospitals that cater to the type of animal you are placing. Ask to place a flier at your local feed store. Consider posting an ad on craigslist. Please note: When posting at a feed store or on craigslist, ask for an adoption fee and expect to do a home check. Screening is of utmost importance when using these methods of advertisement.
Remember to ask friends, family and coworkers to spread the word as well. If you are a member of online forums, consider asking the moderator to allow a posting of the animal for placement. Post to pertinent listservs as well.
Animal Place only considers accepting an animal after you have exhausted all avenues. If these suggestions do not work, and it has been more than 2-weeks since we posted your information please email us at info@animalplace.org. We will let you know within 72-hours if Animal Place can accept the animal. We have limited space, resources and must remain cognizant of who we can feasibly incorporate safely into our current population.
