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Animal Place Vegan California sanctuary home to nearly 250 rescued farmed animals. Sanctuary * Education * Advocacy

Founded in 1989, Animal Place fills a much-needed niche of farm animal rescue, sanctuary, education, and adoption. Animal Place is one of the largest and oldest animal sanctuaries in the nation. We operate a 600-acre sanctuary in Grass Valley, California, and a 60-acre animal shelter in Vacaville, California. Animal Place extends compassion to all life with a special emphasis on farmed animals. Th

is is executed by providing permanent sanctuary, education, legislation, and appropriate placement of needy animals. Commenting Policy:

Our page is for supporters of Animal Place. We love engaging discussions and the sharing of opinions–we encourage you to do just that! However, we reserve the right to remove comments or posts that contain the following:

- mocking of rescued animals (e.g. "bacon!" "looks tasty")
- promotion of violence towards humans or nonhumans
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- off-topic
- encouraging or promoting illegal activities

Anyone leaving an inflammatory, callous comment encouraging the consumption of any of the rescued animals at Animal Place will be permanently banned. If you have questions, email [email protected]

Thank you!

03/28/2025

Cocomel has been practicing his downward sheep just in time for Goat Pilates! 🐐🧘‍♀️
Join us on Sunday, April 6th at Animal Place for a relaxing and restorative session with

This beginner-friendly Pilates class is only $20 and combines stretching, strength and flexibility. Using only your body weight, we will flow through slow, intentional exercises that improve mobility and core strength while focusing on deep breathing. Perfect for all levels, this class helps release tension, reset your body, and leave you feeling refreshed and restored!

🎟available at https://donate.animalplace.org/event/goat-pilates-april-2025/e668563

03/28/2025

You have never seen a bovine taller than Duncan. He and his pals are here for Cow Camp 2025, but normally they live at 💛

03/27/2025

"Chick days" are upon us, across the country. Feed-stores fill up with fuzzy babies, and backyard chicken enthusiasts and farmers peruse mail-order hatchery websites.

But to get a chick from incubation to the mail and to his or her destination requires depriving sensitive babies of food and water for up to 5 days.

Scroll through to find out more.

03/26/2025

Either cauliflower is getting shorter or the grass is growing taller.

03/25/2025

Just a reminder Panda Bob used to be this small.

03/24/2025

Douglass, Cheech and the two other goats who spent 7 months at a dog and cat shelter got their blood drawn for testing and their f***ls evaluated for parasites. Douglass put up with it pretty well. 🤎

03/21/2025

Between Jan 2024 - Jan 2025, pheasant and duck farms received $5.6 million in indemnity payments from having to kill birds infected with bird flu.

➡️ 7 farms used foam to suffocate more than 300,000 birds.
➡️ 15 farms used CO2 to gas >380,000 birds
➡️ 2 farms used cervical dislocation to kill >3,000 pheasants

The pheasants were hand-reared so that people could shoot and kill them. The ducks were birds raised for slaughter and egg production.

03/19/2025

Please keep sharing - you are making a difference!

💜 Thanks to Ayelette's networking, Scott from Los Angeles Guinea Pig Rescue will be intaking bonded boys Acorn and Chestnut for rehoming together!
💜Kaitlyn in San Diego will be adopting Toffee, pending a veterinary check Monday!
💜Jodi and Alexandria up north will be adopting the 5 female guinea pigs being fostered by our animal care director, Meg!
💜 The bonded female bunnies will be adopted by one of our employees after we get them spayed and fostered.
💜 Emily in Seattle will be adopting one male guinea pig!
💜 Cali_FID will be fostering and placing the leopard gecko, turtle, and savannah monitor

Keep spreading the word so that guinea pigs Artemis, Snickers, "No name", Niffler, Twix, and Peanut can find homes as well as bunnies Zippi, Peanut, and the 4 flemish giants can find homes. Transport will happen to Grass Valley.

Can you help? Email me at [email protected] or message! Let's help all these lovely souls find a forever home, so that their terminally ill caregiver can focus on herself! We got this!

03/17/2025

Savage Cat Food is recalling all products with lot label 11152026. This comes in response to multiple cats in different states becoming infected with avian influenza after consuming the raw pet food. Two cats in New York have died and one is ill.

Mortality rates in cats infected with bird flu can be as high as 60%. You can protect your felines by not feeding them raw pet food or milk (which they shouldn't be given anyways).

03/15/2025

Contrary to what some government officials seem to think, it's not just chickens affected by avian influenza. Turkeys are particularly sensitive to the virus. Between 2024-Jan 28 2025, more than 4 million turkeys became infected and either died from bird flu or were killed by officials.

💔More than 3 million turkeys were killed by foam, where workers flood sheds with firefighting foam. Birds suffocate in the foam but not all die. Secondary methods include cervical dislocation, VSD+, and captive bolt gun.

💔Nearly 800,000 turkeys were killed by Ventilation Shutdown +, where all vents/openings are closed and either heat or CO2 is added to sheds. It can take hours for birds to die. Secondary methods include cervical dislocation, foam, and captive bolt gun.

💔More than 900,000 turkeys were killed by CO2, in which birds are gassed in their sheds or in trash bins. Secondary methods include cervical dislocation and captive bolt gun.

💔1 farm killed 48,700 birds via cervical dislocation, using tools to crush and separate the spinal cord of each bird. Another farm used captive bolt guns to shoot 2,000 turkeys in the head with.

💔 And one farm lost 7,000 birds to avian influenza during a mass mortality event. Farms that lose birds due to bird flu are not compensated, so this farm did not receive indemnity payments for these birds lost.

In total, turkey farmers received $109 million in indemnity payments for the birds government officials had to kill.

While avian influenza will continue to exist without industrial farms, when bird flu strikes larger farms, it puts workers and wild animals at risk. The bodies of infected birds are still transported in open-air trucks and buried in mass graves. Bird flu is spread via inhalation of aerosols, fomites, dander, and through direct contact with diseased live/dead birds.

None of us need turkey flesh to survive. It is so easy to find plant-based alternatives.

03/14/2025

Please help us help a fellow rescuer! We have been working with a woman with a terminal illness, who ran a guinea pig and rabbit rescue out of her home in Apple Valley, California (southern California). She desperately needs placement for the animals she has left.

Despite not being a guinea pig rescue, we did help by pulling 12 of her guinea pigs. Two wonderful rescues in Washington adopted 6 of them and we still have a bonded group of 5 (one passed away) being fostered in Grass Valley, California.

But there are still 9 guinea pigs and 8 rabbits who need placement. The guinea pigs come with their cages but SHOULD NOT be housed in there forever, they are too small. Some of the bunnies will need to be spayed and neutered.

I've reached out to many small animal rescues and some have responded to help with networking. Right now, we are seeking placement in California, Oregon, or Washington.

If you can help, message us or email me at [email protected].

03/11/2025

Between 2023-2024, farms and individuals received >$1.2 billion in USDA-funded indemnity payments. Here are the egg farms that suffered infections in 2024 and the indemnity payments they received.

1️⃣ 10th ranked egg-farm Herbruck's Poultry received $89 million between 2023-2024 after they had to kill more than 6.5 million birds at three of their sites in Ionia, Michigan. More than 24,000 birds at one location died from H5N1 before "depopulation" had to begin.

*Repeat Offender*
2️⃣ 7th-ranked Center Fresh received more than $80 million between 2023-2024. In 2024, they killed more than 10 million hens. Their Sioux City farm has been infected twice.

*Repeat Offender*
3️⃣ 1st-ranked Cal-Maine Foods received more than $45 million in 2023-2024. Their farms in Parmer, Texas and Rice, Kansas were affected, with more than 2 million hens killed. Their Rice facility has seen multiple infections.

*Repeat Offender*
4️⃣ 11th-ranked Gemperle Farms received $36 million in 2023-2024. In 2024, they killed more than 2 million hens. This is a cage-free, Certified Humane farm. Two of their premises have been infected twice.

5️⃣ 32nd-ranked Central Valley Eggs received $14 million in 2024 for the 3 million hens they had to kill - their entire flock.

*Repeat Offender*
6️⃣28th-ranked Oakdell Egg Farm received $12 million in 2024 for the >2 million birds they killed in Cache & Franklin, WA. They killed 307,000 infected birds in 2025 and indemnity payments are not currently available. Their Franklin, WA site has seen 3 infections. Their Cache site has seen two infections.

*Repeat Offender*
7️⃣ 15th ranked Opal Foods received $8.1 million in 2024 for the 3.4 million hens killed in July 2024 in Hudson, Colorado. Numbers are not available for the 2.3 million hens killed in Newton, Missouri, where one site lost 67,000 hens to H5N1 directly. Their Weld sites have seen a combined 6 infections (3 under prior ownership, 3 under Opal).

*Repeat Offender*
8️⃣ JS West in Merced, California received $6.7 million in 2024 for the 1.1 million hens they had to kill, which is their entire flock. Their two farms have been infected twice each.

9️⃣ 16th ranked Hickman's received $6 million in 2024 for the nearly 1 million hens who had to be killed at their Maricopa farm. Another 316,000 were killed in Jan 2025, no indemnity payments available yet.

1️⃣0️⃣ Demler Farms in San Jacinto, California received $5 million between Nov-Jan 2025 for the 1.3 million hens who were killed. (Both Demler & JS West are listed as 52nd in egg farm rankings)

1️⃣1️⃣ 35th-ranked Willamette Egg Farms in Canby, Oregon received $655,800 in 2024 for the 150,000 hens killed.

1️⃣2️⃣ 8th ranked Mid-State Specialty received $377,000 in 2024 for the 20,300 hens in Buffalo, Missouri who were killed.

03/09/2025

and might have scrubbed from their calendars...but your Fearless social media manager has ADHD and always keeps about 15 different calendars. Nice try, tho!

Sanctuaries are often started, run, and operated by incredible womxn...and often without a lot of support or credit. The women who work at Animal Place are hard working, empathetic, kind, strong, and dedicated to making a difference. Our sanctuary was cofounded by a woman.

And almost all of our residents were rescued by women from industries that heavily exploit the female body. From dairies that forcibly impregnate cows to hens whose bodies are forced to produce 10 times more eggs than normal.

Tag one of your fave female run sanctuaries! There are too many for us to list but here are just a few to start - give them a follow!

03/06/2025

🐰 bunny Sprout is doing well after being hospitalized for a possible obstruction. She pooped this morning!

And thanks to everyone's support, the cost of Sprouts medical care has been covered.

Without you, there is no us. Thank you! 💗

03/06/2025

As continues to affect wild and domestic animals, we look at how infected birds raised for their flesh are being killed. Cornish crosses are bred to grow quickly for slaughter at 6-weeks-old. They are often housed in sheds by the thousands.

Carbon Dioxide
Between 2024-Jan 2025, 5 Cornish x farms killed around 1.1 million birds using CO2.
CO2 involves filling sheds with gas or placing birds in trash bins that have gas pumped into them.

Foam
Between 2024-Jan 2025, 23 Cornish x farms killed around 4 million birds using foam.

Foam involves flooding sheds with water-based firefighting foam until birds are drowned to death.

4 farms used cervical dislocation & VSD+ as secondary methods of killing.

Ventilation Shutdown +
Between 2024-Jan 2025, 6 Cornish x farms killed around 1 million birds using VSD+.

VSD+ involves closing all entrances, exits, and vents and adding heat or gas to kill birds via hyperthermia (overheating).

3 farms used cervical dislocation as a secondary method for birds who survived VSD+

Mechanically Assisted Cervical Dislocation
Between 2024-Jan 2025, 1 Cornish x farms killed around 6,000 birds using cervical dislocation.

Cervical dislocation involves the mechanical separation or crushing of the spinal cord.

Between 2024-Jan 28, 2025, chicken farms raising birds for slaughter received $29 million in indemnity payments from the USDA as compensation for having to kill infected flocks.

Going plant-based is a great way to avoid contributing to this abuse.

As a reminder, disinformation and misinformation will be removed. Avian influenza is a real disease causing real problems for real birds, cats, cows, and a multitude of wild animals.

03/06/2025

Sprout is home back at the sanctuary! She is looking so much better. 💛 thanks for all of the support for our sweet girl.

She is on pain management and critical care diet as she regains her appetite.

03/06/2025

Sprout is super stoked to be headed back home. The vet hospital said she was super sweet, no duh! $1700 of her $2800 bill has been raised. Please donate!

We will monitor her over the next few days to make sure she is fully recovered. Thanks for your support!

03/05/2025

Emergency! Bunny Sprout is currently hospitalized in what vets suspect is possible acute GI stasis or a blocksge. When a Bunny stops eating or isn't moving f***l matter along, it can become a quickly fatal condition.

Please consider a donation to Sprout's hospitalization and care.

She is currently in an incubator and on fluid therapy. If she does not eat this morning, she will be syringe fed.

Please send good thoughts to sweet Sprout.

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Noodles is the best girl. She was born with short spine syndrome, a genetic condition that causes abnormal bone growth (hence the weird foot). In 2022, she was one of 100 animals confiscated from a Lassen County property starving animals to death. She had not been shorn in years. Too bad I failed at life and didn't bring her the Noodles food tax. #sheep #sheeps #noodles #animalplace

Being with Panda Bob is always magic. I can't help but look at the screen and feel so much love for this boy. I've known him for 11 years, from a wobbly calf to a bouncy teen to the sweet senior he is today.

Douglass and cheech spent 7 months at a dog and cat shelter before entering our adoption program. Today they get neutered!

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Thank you to everyone who came out and showed the cows some love at our Cocoa and Cow Cuddles event! 🥰 The cows are still glowing from all the brushing and cuddles. 🐮 More events coming up at the sanctuary. Check animalplace.org for more opportunities to visit and show the animals some 💕.

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Tasty plant based cuisine 🤝 soulful melodies We can't wait to hear the sweet🎼serenades of @dylanvroommusic and @cjwashingtonmuzic at our annual Meat Out event! Join us Saturday, March 22nd at Animal Place's sanctuary mouthwatering plant-based cuisine, live music, impactful organizations, and rescued farmed animals. Tickets still available at https://donate.animalplace.org/event/meat-out-2025/e654588

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