These animals are for on your fridge, not in them! Make the rabbit, pig, cow, sheep, goat, turkey lover in your life one happy person with a foster parent sponsorship!
Support an animal residing at Animal Place by “adopting” one through our Foster Parent Program. You can become a foster parent yourself or give this honorary title as a gift to the animal lover in your life!
Become an Animal Place foster parent for only $25!
As an Animal Place Foster Parent, you will receive a full-color certificate with beautiful pictures of your foster animal, a wallet-sized Animal Place Foster Parent card and
our quarterly newsletter, Animal Place Magazine.
Nicholas has someone just like you to thank for being alive! Being born a boy on a dairy farm is tough - Nicholas would never produce milk, nor would he grow fast enough to be killed at only 2-yrs-old for beef. Instead, he was torn from his mom and sent to auction, where he was bought for $15!
He ended up tied outside an apartment complex with only hay and water...he needed his mom's milk. A neighbor saw the suffering calf and called animal control who called us!
Today, Nicholas is a healthy 4-yr-old who loves all his bovine friends! See a video of him as a baby meeting everyone for the first time!
Ella escaped from a dairy goat farm to a rural area where she had to fend for herself. All alone, she was shot at by neighbors and chased by dogs. A mother-daughter team spent weeks coaxing Ella closer and closer to their property.
Daisy is the hen on the right with best friend, Lilac. Daisy is from an egg farm where she lived in a cage so small, she couldn't even stretch her wing. This is how 95% of all hens in the egg industry are housed. Daisy is very shy (we don't blame her) but loves her avian friends. She has been de-beaked, so we provide her with deep bowls to eat her food out of, and she sometimes relies on other birds to groom her!
Walle is a young tom turkey who saved himself from a "free-range" turkey farm. The farm raised turkeys for slaughter and despite the labeling, the lives of these birds were anything but free. All had been debeaked and the first digits of their toes had been chopped off without pain relief.
Walle managed to escape the farm and walked on mangled feet until kind strangers rescued him! He loves trilling to visitors and showing off his gorgeous white plumage. Large white-breasted turkeys, like Walle, are bred to be so large that they cannot fly or even mate naturally. He is on a special diet and especially loves when visitors give him grapes!
Alice is one of many animals raised for slaughter as part of programs like Future Farmers of America (FFA) and 4H in which children are taught betrayal instead of compassion. Thankfully, the student who cared for Alice fell in love and refused to send her to auction...even though the school and FFA teacher condemned her for it! In her honor, the student and her mom even went vegetarian!
The Dog Rescue Program, where Animal Place uses four kennels to provide a unique foster home to needy dogs from local shelters and Mexico. They may need special medical care or a temporary foster until rescue spots open up … then they are on their way to their new home!
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