Category Archives: Life at CAS

Kathy Stevens

Babe: Wiseman, Mischief-Maker, Teacher, Friend

February 10, 2012 | Categories: Animals,Director's Corner

By Kathy Stevens, Founder and Director

Babe May 1, 1995-February 6, 2012 LOVE—SO MUCH LOVE AND THANKS—to all of you who shared kind and loving words of support, along with your memories of a beloved friend. I will cherish them for the rest of my days. A Huffington Post blog about Babe is in the works; meantime, enjoy some of my favorite memories…and please share your own! Particularly if Babe was your impetus for going veg, we’d love to hear your story. For a (very) short while, Babe was a free-ranger. Only he never went anywhere. Free to roam the entire farm, Babe instead stood smack [...]

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Leah Craig Chumbley

From Stallions to Geldings

February 1, 2012 | Categories: Animals

By Leah Craig Chumbley, Communications Director & Assistant to the Director

Four down and three to go. The stallions from our Saratoga rescue are being gelded (castrated) by veterinary surgeons at Rhinebeck Equine. Dewey, Harry, Brutus, and Montana have all undergone the surgery and are healing wonderfully back at CAS. Opie, Pete, and Timothy will be gelded over the next couple weeks. As geldings, these boys will be much more adoptable. Do you have the room to welcome one of them into your family? Gelding is another important step in these boys’ recovery – a recovery that has come so far! Watching them now, it is hard to believe how desperate [...]

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Kathy Stevens

CAS at 32 – Chapter 1: The Work Begins

January 10, 2012 | Categories: Director's Corner

By Kathy Stevens, Founder and Director

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 [...]

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