Meet the Animals Gallery
Animals Available for Adoption

We have featured the stories of some of our permanent residents below.

For 9 years, Bobo and two other horses were locked in tiny stalls in a filthy barn. They never left their stalls and stood atop feet of packed manure, their stalls were never cleaned. Nor were their hooves ever trimmed: Bobo's were about 16" long when CAS arrived with State Police. It took the humans three attempts to remove them: hours to remove the manure so that they could leave, but the humans then discovered that they were terrified to leave the stalls: for nine long years, those four walls were all they had known. Of the three horses, Bobo was the most frightened. Everything terrified me: birds, ponies, water, cars, cats - even the sound of wind. Bobo finally learned that the outdoors need not be feared. What a triumph it was to finally be released into a lush green pasture!

Big Ted has spent most of his life as a work horse. He pulled a carriage in New York City. He plowed fields for the Amish. He pulled trees through the forest for a logging company. Finally he was sold to a riding camp where at the end of an exhausting day, he spent the night crammed into a straight stall barely wider than his body. Once again Big Ted was scheduled to be sold at the auction. Now too old to work, he would likely have ended up as dog food or on a plate in Japan or France. A kind woman heard he was to be sold and stepped in to save him. Big Ted is now best friends with Dino. He rests his head on Dino's back through a window cut between their stalls. Big Ted finally gets to relax and just be a horse!

Buddy III is our third blind horse named Buddy. This handsome Appaloosa was surrendered by his owner. Unlike other blind horses we've worked with, Buddy hadn't developed a sense of caution. It was full steam ahead for this boy! We've been helping him develop a sense of caution without losing his ample self-confidence. Buddy is learning to explore and investigate new objects and situations by gently feeling them out with his nose.  

Sweet, affectionate Rosebud was taken home by a dairy farm manager owing to her special needs. Unfortunately, the manager was unable to care for her appropriately, and surrendered her to CAS. She comes running when her name is called so she can eat her special diet.  
Policeman, weighing in at about 1,000 lbs, was seized from a Bronx apartment during a drug raid. This farm pig is kind and sensitive, and especially loves children.



Rambo was rescued from a notorious situation in High Falls: 17 animals, Rambo among them, were housed in one tiny stall. They were fed an infrequent diet of stale moldy bagels and were even more rarely watered. When State Police were called in on a cruelty investigation, the animals were labeled "extremely emaciated and debilitated," and were seized and brought to us. Ten months later, the animals were legally surrendered, and all but two have been adopted by wonderful families. Rambo is a Jacob sheep: a relatively unusual breed used for wool and that grows up to six horns! Initially very violent, Rambo threw two of us into the stall wall. He was so dangerous, in fact, that volunteers were not allowed in the stall with him. Today, it is difficult to find words that do Rambo justice. It is not simply that his rage and volatility have disappeared. It is that, embodied in an animal that most consider merely a beast of burden, a commodity worth only what a few pounds of his wool can bring, there exists a remarkable creature.

Helen is a blind calf who was born on a veal farm. The farmer's daughter fell in love with this little cow and her life was spared. Helen moo-ed and ran in circles her first few days at CAS. She hadn't had any human contact until she was loaded onto a trailer to come to the sanctuary. Her new "brother" Rudy, a former resident of Catskill Game Farm, now watches over her. Helen knows her name and know the sound of our trucks and our voices. She is friendly and affectionate, yet never too far from Rudy.

Hannah is a gentle older ewe who was found living in a cemetary in Brooklyn. She has bonded with Rambo and follows him everywhere, much to his chagrin.