Rescued Animals

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On April 2020 people have found me stranded in the middle of a forest. The night before they have found me was so cold, I shivered for hours. I screamed and shouted and it seemed like nobody will ever hear me, but suddenly people came and took me. My mother

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I was born into the goat’s milk industry. The Freedom Farm told me they have received a call about a goat who is unable to stand or walk. I was very weak and I was laying helplessly on the ground. My body was covered with burns from my own urine

Adam Yara were supposed to be slaughtered as part of the Eid al-Adha holiday. Eid al-Adha, also called the “Festival of the Sacrifice”, is the second of two Islamic holidays celebrated worldwide each year, and considered the holier of the two. Adam and Yara were rescued by a charming guy who

Up until she came to us, Angela was just another cow in a dairy farm, number 910. Angela is considered an old cow for the industry, at the young age of 5.5 years old. When we met her, she was pregnant with her fourth baby and scheduled for slaughter right

Hey, I’m Shirley. Although I’ve got a female name, I’m a male turkey. At first they thought I was a girl, because I was so beautiful, but then when I got to be six months old they discovered that I was a boy. Anyway, that name suits me. I’m a

Although I am a movie star, I give the right to photograph me only to the producer who took me to star in her film. Thanks to her I am at the Freedom Farm Sancuary today! Behind my smile lies a sad life story: I’m only five years old, but

You just caught me practicing meditation like I do  every morning. I finally found my inner peace, and finally I learned I could sit down. Before I arrived to the farm, I spent days and nights standing. I couldn’t lie down because I was tied up to a carriage and

Einav Arrived from the dairy industry, from an agricultural school, after five birth and pregnancies. She was rescued just a moment before she was supposed to be slaughtered. The children who took care of her at the school, attached to her and couldn’t bare the thought of her faith if they won’t

Just a moment ago I was in the meat industry, full of mud, feces and dirt with a terrible smell and density. One day, when I was taken out to walk in the open field, my leg got stuck in a rock and broke. I was in a lot of

I was born to a life of freedom, here at the farm. My mother, Ilana, arrived when she was pregnant with me. Before she arrived here, she lived on another farm, but before that, when she was a little younger she worked very hard in carrying loads. Ilana is the

Here, at the farm, I met my best friend – Roy! We came from different places but grew up together like brothers. We both arrived weak and small, Roy didn’t even know how to walk! Here, at the farm, they helped us grow stronger and gave us hope. Today we

I was born only a few days before Omer, but in a different place. When I was born I was healthy but my mother could not take care of me. I met Omer here at the farm and since then we’ve been together all the time, like siblings. We sleep

We didn’t always live free and happy life. In the past we were in a place where we were not treated well and our bodies were checked daily for all kinds of materials. It was scary and unpleasant. We even have a sign from this period, a tattoo of a number

  Meet Omer, a baby goat who joined the Freedom family yesterday!   Omer is a week and a half old, arrived from the dairy industry. The workers in the pen where he was born noticed that he was walking in circles around himself and they suspected that he was

In December 2018, 54 chickens from a Breeding Coop, arrived to the farm in the middle of the night. The chickens remained in the Industrial chicken coop to die slowly, without water, food or proper sanitation. The chickens stayed in the chicken coop in a  very difficult conditions: they arrived filled

We were contacted with an offer from a battery cage farm to come and take 60 egg-laying hens before the entire hen-house population would be electrocuted. Thanks to your support, we were able to set up a new space for birds on our farm, and these recently-rescued hens were the

Seven yellow and sweet gifts joined us in July 2018.  The ducklings were born by in a residential yard In Moshav Olesh. Immediately The family searched for a loving home for them. The ducklings play an important role in the farm – In the future, once we’ll rescue ducks from

We are two lucky goats named Erez and Guy. We believe that humans have big hearts and are full of love for animals. That’s because these are the people we know at the Freedom Farm Sanctuary. We arrived at the farm small and perfect, thanks to a woman named Miri

One day a passer-by knocked on our door, holding a tiny creature in his hands. He told us he noticed Moshiko (that still didn’t have a name) in the middle of the road, trying to escape and to protect himself from the cats around. Since he heard about the farm

Hey, I’m Or, Which means “Light” in Hebrew, and I’m glad I got  stolen. That’s me, seeing the half full bottle. But I wasn’t always so optimistic. Whoever stole me took care of me really badly. He didn’t care about me at all. I was very sick with pneumonia, I

Hi, I’m Miri and this here is Gili, don’t we look like sisters? The truth is that we first met at Beit Dagan Hospital. I arrived at the hospital after I had been lying in a ditch with a broken leg  for two months. If it hadn’t been for the rains

Look how agile I am! You will not believe me – but only three weeks ago I could not stand on my own. Certainly I could not walk or jump. When I arrived at the farm, I was six weeks old, very weak and gaunt. I was born in a

On the eve of Passover, we received an alarming message stating that there was a calf stuck in a water reservoir in the south.  They explained that more than half of his body was submerged under water, and that he was unable to move. He had probably been there for

Bono was saved by a youth group, whose goal is to save lives. They give us hope for the future! While on an action in the North, members of the group asked a local sheep farmer if they could play with a baby lamb.  They saw how loving, sweet and

Hi, I am Staci. When I was born the owner of the herd noticed that I could not stand and immediately separated me from my mother.  He gave me 24 hours to find a new home, otherwise, he will kill me. In the middle of the night, volunteers from the

Shai and Or were found on the side of the road after falling from a truck transporting them to a fattening farm, to be sold as processed sandwich meat at a later date. A third turkey, Orly, recently arrived to the farm after falling from a truck on the way

Gali came to us blind, covered in excrement and terrified. Being blind, she was unable to get to the food, therefore the farmers knew she would be unable to find her way to the milking machines. Usually “useless” calves are sold for meat, but because she was not able to

Hi, I’m Tal. People say that I am full of joy and beauty, but when I arrived at the Freedom Farm Sanctuary I was gaunt and could barely move. I’m sure you wouldn’t be full of joy either if you were trapped in a small cage and your future was

  It’s not easy rescuing pigs in Israel. In 1962 a law was passed making it illegal to raise pigs on Israeli soil, with the exclusion of scientific institutes and zoos. Only a small number of places are allowed to breed pigs for research purposes, when in actuality 60% of