Blog Posts

Welcome to Catskill Animal Sanctuary’s weekly video blog about our new property on Route 32 in Saugerties, NY! I will be taking you through the restoration of this beautiful land that, until now, sat abandoned for many years. There is a lot of work that has to happen before we can welcome rescued animals and we are already in high gear! Chapter One: The Work Begins, shows you the first stages of clearing out the massive vines that have choked the life out of most of the trees on these 32 acres. The video also gives you a chance to [...]

Four days from now, my dog Hannah and I will wake long before daylight, trek to the barn, and pull dozens and dozens of heavy rubber dishes from their neat stacks, line them up, and fill them with breakfast for cows and horses, chickens and geese. Well, to be more precise, I will do that part. Hannah’s job will be to patrol the large feed room, waiting for morsels to drop. I’ll stack the dishes of fruits and vegetables, grains and pellets on a cart and then at 7:30, staff will arrive and load the bounty onto their vehicles and [...]

Nine years ago a fledgling CAS closed on our current property, took a deep breath, and got to work. We dug ponds, drilled wells, hauled away everything from piles of tires and old vehicles to…um…toilets that were piled in a stall on this farm that sorely needed rescue! And rescue we did! In the ensuing years, with your spirit and generosity, we built seven barns and many smaller shelters, fenced twenty pastures, erected paddocks, and enclosures for smaller animals, installed a mile and a half of roads, and put in a solar array to power the entire farm operation…and, well, [...]