Each month, our Food for Thought campaign profiles a shelter that has implemented an animal friendly menu policy at their shelter events. December 2014 featured shelter is Whatcom Humane Society.

From hobbled and tethered in a box truck to strutting and frolicking at sanctuary! Tethered and hobbled in a box truck located on 27-acres of impounded vehicles, little G.G. must have felt alone and afraid. The only human she knew had chained her inside the truck, barely offering her enough food and water to survive. […]

With our most recent liberation of 2,000 hens from battery cages, our Rescue Ranch rescue and adoption center reached an amazing milestone – 16,000 lives saved! This after only 4.5 years in existence!

The three newest piglet residents are pretty adorable. Rudy, Georgina Grace Wiggle Bottom, and Magpie were saved from slaughter at a petting zoo and now will live out their lives in peace and sanctuary.

Panda survived being burned, only to face slaughter at the hands of his caregiver.

Watch newest piglet rescue, Marigold, as she plays like a puppy with executive director Kim Sturla.

Now it’s time for a new trailer and we need your gift to drive us to that goal!

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.