After a full and happy decade among friends, Bobo, our 32-year-old blind mare, died suddenly this past Tuesday. Bobo was one of the most traumatized animals Catskill Animal Sanctuary has ever rescued. We found her eleven years ago in a dark stall, standing on top of six feet of packed manure, where she had been … Read more
Rambo, the iconic sheep beloved by thousands, died peacefully this past Saturday evening, surrounded by a few of his human and animal friends. He was sixteen years old. As I wrote in Where the Blind Horse Sings, Rambo arrived at Catskill Animal Sanctuary full of testosterone and rage. Indeed, he was the most dangerous animal we’ve … Read more
This past Sunday, Catskill Animal Sanctuary lost a legend. Barbie, the broiler hen who had been a fixture in the barn for the three and a half years she lived at CAS, and whose friendship with Rambo the sheep was featured in Animal Camp, was euthanized after breathing problems became too much for her. Barbie … Read more
Note: This is a repost of my article over at The Huffington Post. Please feel free to comment over there as well as here. In 2004, Aries arrived at CAS with forty other animals from a failed sanctuary. He was a small, beautiful sheep, with loose, curly wool, enormous, penetrating eyes the color or wheat, … Read more
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