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Donate to Skunk Fencing

Recently, a mama skunk decided to make a den near the chicken pasture. On camera, we saw her with one baby. Then we realized she had four more! And while this family is absolutely adorable, the mama skunk has been seen stalking some of our smallest bantam chickens. It is uncommon for skunks to attack birds, ‘but […]

Middle School Summer Camp

Animal Place is participating in LEAP!   Animal Place’s Kids’ Summer Camp for incoming 6th-8th graders will run from July 27-31. Curriculum and interactive workshops are hosted every day from 10:00 am-3:00 pm, starting Monday, July 27th. Students will have the opportunity to work hands-on with farmed animals and learn how to provide them with […]

Rodeos: Entertainment Built on Fear and Pain

Rodeo promoters describe their events as celebrations of Western heritage, athletic competition, and family fun. What they rarely mention is the flank strap tightened around a bull’s abdomen to make him buck, the electric prod used to force a terrified animal out of a chute, or the calf as young as four months old being […]

Where Peace Meets Purpose: Jayna’s Special Bond with Animal Place Residents

Meet Jayna Dickens! She began volunteering with Animal Place a year ago with her friend, Rachel Sutton. Jayna is one of our animal socializers and regularly comes to spend time with our sheep, who clearly reciprocate her love. “My favorite memories are the times when the sheep have heard me coming and started running towards […]

Motherhood Without Consent: How Animal Agriculture Exploits Female Bodies

Every Mother’s Day, we celebrate the depth of a mother’s love. We send flowers. We make dinner reservations. We pause to honor the women who raised us. But the holiday we observe today was never meant to be about dinners or flowers. And the mothers we forget to honor outnumber us by billions. The Radical […]

Meditation & MOOvement

Join meditation and qigong instructor Charity Kahn for a morning of peaceful practice at Animal Place on Saturday, May 30 2026 at 10 AM. We’ll experience lovingkindness meditation, walking meditation, and the gentle moving meditation of qigong, all with kind awareness of the cherished animal residents of the sanctuary. We’ll connect with the Earth, our animal relatives, each […]

The Farm Bill’s Hidden Attack on Animal Protection Laws

On April 30, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Food and National Security Act of 2026 by a vote of 224–20. Supporters called it bipartisan progress. Animal advocates know better. This bill is, at its core, a gift to factory farming interests, and it just moved one step closer to becoming law. The Threat: […]

Longtime Volunteer Trish Eley Spills the Beans on What Keeps Her Coming Back

Meet Trish Eley! Trish has been volunteering at Animal Place since August 2013. It all started when former volunteer Colleen invited Trish to help take care of Jujube and Jellybean, our sanctuary donkeys. Trish, having been a guardian of horses in the past, was delighted. The rest is history. Trish’s love for our donkeys, or […]

The USDA wants to speed up slaughter lines. Why that matters – Take Action by Monday!

The USDA has proposed eliminating slaughter line speed limits for pigs and significantly increasing them for birds, all while gutting worker safety oversight in one of the country’s most dangerous industries.  The public comment window closes this Monday, April 20.  What this proposal means Slaughter line speeds determine how many animals are killed per hour […]

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