We do not know what farm Clementine came from in Southern California. We only know that a woman crammed her into a cloth bag and planned on selling her for a Christmas backyard slaughter. It is moments like these when animals like Clementine are in desperate need of a savior, an advocate who won’t turn […]

Shh, don’t tell Mortimer, but he has competition in the “cutest calf” department! Meet Bob, Mortimer’s new best friend and Animal Place’s recent rescue. Confiscated from a rancher by Nevada County Animal Care and Control, Bob’s mom couldn’t stand up, let alone walk. Ill and dying, she needed immediate veterinary assistance. Our local veterinarian, Dr. […]

Two years ago, Freedom and Summer arrived to the sanctuary. They were only a few days old and had already suffered immensely at the hands of humans. As “discards” of the dairy industry, these two male calves were sent to auction at only a few days old. For dairy cows to produce milk, they must […]

Sadie has been with Animal Place since 2005. She is a former dairy cow, never given the right to nurse her own babies. When she developed an udder infection, she was discarded as quickly as her male calves were to be slaughtered for veal. She is very shy, but sometimes she loves to lick the […]

Animal Place is paying visitors $5 to play with pigs on a guided tour at their sanctuary in northern California. The sanctuary is home to nearly 300 pigs, cows, chickens, turkeys, goats, sheep, and rabbits living out their lives on 600-acres in the rolling meadows of Grass Valley, California.

Watch our Hens on a Plane Coast to Coast Airlift video! Animal Place spearheads the rescue of 3,000 hens from a caged “egg-laying” hen farm. Flies 1,150 out to east coast sanctuaries for the first ever flight of adult birds. From cages to homes and sanctuaries, Animal Place secured the release of 3,000 hens from […]

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The message of peace and compassion – can be applied to the other mothers who share this world with us. Nonhuman mothers are capable of bonding with their young and feeling a deep connection.

Egg farmer phasing out of egg business, we help find homes for 1,800 hens! Animal Place is sprung into action to help save 1,800 hens from an egg farm going out of business! This rescue is different than others. Because of staff limitations, we could only rescue as many hens as we can place into […]

February 11, 2013 –  Today, two defendants, Andy Cheung and Lien Diep, were arraigned after being charged with felony animal cruelty – a charge rarely levied against industrial agricultural producers. Last week, the Stanislaus County District Attorney filed felony cruelty charges against Cheung and Diep, owners of the Turlock, Calif.-based A & L Poultry, where […]