October was Vegetarian Awareness Month, and at Catskill Animal Sanctuary we celebrated by helping you go veg! Michelle shared her “Top 10 Reasons to Go Veg” and Kathy gave you “30 Reasons and 30 Ways to Go Veg.” We told you about a 12-year-old boy who decided to make the switch, and about four recent … Read more
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvjKS09HZg0&feature=share&list=UU2VpDQ3IbfTxVx3UgNz08TQ[/youtube] October means pumpkins, Halloween costumes, corn mazes, and Vegetarian Awareness Month. Wait…what? That’s right; October 1st was the official kick-off of Vegetarian Awareness Month, a month-long opportunity to consider adopting a vegetarian lifestyle. Here at Catskill Animal Sanctuary we are celebrating by helping you GO VEGAN all month long… and beyond! Click here to … Read more
Catskill Animal Sanctuary has opened its doors to many newcomers over the past month: roosters, ducks, a horse and more! We are so excited to welcome these newbies to a place of love…. Roosters Francis and Hans Solo weren’t popular with the neighbors at their previous home; the neighbors complained so much about the boys’ … Read more
Meet Wil, a curious and compassionate 12-year-old who enrolled in Camp Kindness at Catskill Animal Sanctuary this past summer to have fun on a farm meeting a bevy of formerly abused and neglected, but currently loved and cared for, animals. As important as ensuring kids have loads of fun, Camp Kindness also strives to open … Read more
Today, October 1st, is World Vegetarian Day, a celebration that kicks off Vegetarian Awareness Month that extends through the end of October. Part of our work at CAS is to help people understand the suffering farm animals endure in the process of becoming our food, and the exponential benefits that transitioning to a compassionate diet … Read more
Welcome, Sioux! She’s a bruiser of a mare, and we’re delighted to welcome her. Sioux, a 22-year-old Clydesdale, arrived at Catskill Animal Sanctuary after the neighbors of her deceased owner worked feverishly to place her. Horribly foundered and scheduled for euthanasia, Sioux instead made the trip to CAS, where it took a full 30 minutes … Read more
You can and do help animals in a variety of ways, including volunteering, adopting, signing petitions, lobbying politicians, and boycotting companies that abuse animals. Gestation crates are one of the cruelest tools used on factory farms – female pigs are imprisoned for years in metal cages that are barely bigger than their bodies, deprived of … Read more
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
Saturday, September 9, wasn’t an ordinary visiting day (wonderful as they are!) at Catskill Animal Sanctuary. Rather than welcoming the public from 10 to 2pm, CAS welcomed 200 ASPCA staffers and friends, including President and CEO Ed Sayers, for the organization’s annual picnic. I think I can speak for many of us in stating that … Read more
Lambert was raised by an Ohio woman as a 4H project. Part of the deal….sending Lambert to auction (and therefore slaughter) at the end of the project. It was something she’d done before; she and her husband are farmers who routinely sell their animals to slaughter, but Lambert “was different,” she said. She told us … Read more
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