From Eloise: “I have to tell you that being a pig is a privilege. Everything I smell, smells exquisite. Everything I taste is beyond wonderful. To slosh around in mud or a pool of water on a warm day is so good that joy just fills me up. Everything is great, even on rainy days. The […]
How We are Dealing with Quarantine at the Farm
People have been asking what we are doing for the animals during the quarantine in New York State. Rest assured, the animals are being cared for as normal. As an animal sanctuary, our staff are considered essential personnel and they are reporting to work. It is critical that they are healthy and able to come […]
A Story of Healing / A Message of Hope
This is an old photo with two animals who are now in spirit. Cassie, border collie mix, and cat Buster taught us so much. At the time of the photo, Cassie had just arrived here with us. She was heavily traumatized and timid of everything in life. She had huddled on a dog bed near […]
Animal Message for the Day: Bayberry
From Bayberry: “Life can be amazing and it can also sometimes be pretty scary. I have had many scary times in my life. I’ve ended up in some pretty bad places. The worst one was when my friends and I had no food. What was even worse was when we were suddenly left alone and abandoned. […]
Animal Message of the Day: Rex
From Rex: “I live every moment trying to make people understand how wonderful they are in this world and how happy I am to spend a moment or two with them. I love people. I love learning everything about them. And if they are having a down moment or feeling less than wonderful about themselves, then […]
Spring Farm CARES version of March Madness
This is the animals’ version of March Madness. Watch pigs Beeker and Fozzie as well as donkeys Coco and Toby play a little ball.
Animal Message of the Day: Noah
From Noah: “Wisdom. I appreciate the process of building wisdom. Kindness. I appreciate the path of growing deeper into kindness. Love. I appreciate the learning about giving love and the power of understanding that the more you give, the more you have. Life. I appreciate the gift of being alive. Sharing. I appreciate the opportunity to […]
Nice Day for Turnout
It was a perfect day today for our barn animals to enjoy some turnout time.
Animal Message of the Day: Snowball
From Snowball: “There is so much to appreciate in my life! I am here! I am cute! And I have a body that I just love running around with. I have my pal Clark and he is very smart and helpful to me. We live in a really interesting place. There is so much to explore […]
Pig-citement
We are striving to share with you posts from daily life on the farm as much as we can. We all need to realize and hold onto that there is so much good happening in the world right now too. In spite of lock downs and quarantines and fear…. spring is springing. There is still […]
Animal Message of the Day: Sunny
From Sunny: “I appreciate making people laugh. I appreciate making others feel good. I sometimes even appreciate being a little impish with some of the older cats – most especially when they take themselves far too seriously. I like when I can brighten someone’s day. It makes me feel good inside. When I’m nice to others, […]
Animal Message of the Day: Jose
From Jose: “I have been around for a while. I can’t say that I’ve always managed to appreciate everything around me, because that wouldn’t be true. I’ve had some low times where I let hopelessness take over. But, I found my way out of that. Sometimes it just takes knowing that someone believes in you enough […]
Temporarily Closed to Visitors, Tours, and Volunteers
Announcement for our volunteers, visitors, and those looking for tours – We know with the schools closed now especially, that people are looking for tours to come visit the animals. However, we are temporarily suspending all tours, visits, and volunteers for two weeks due to the coronavirus outbreak. The greatest responsibility we have is to […]
Animal Message of the Day: Beeker
From Beeker: “Let’s see, what do I appreciate? The list is long but I’ll try. Bananas, apples, carrots, lettuce….. Oh, wait, do you mean like the bigger things…. Other than food? Well, I like food a lot so that has to go first. But I like smelling the air first thing in the morning. You […]
Animal Message of the Day: Hillary
From Hillary:“I am an old woman now. My ears no longer hear the sounds that used to fill my world. My legs no longer are as agile as they once were when they carried me to great heights and leaps. My eyes may not see as clearly as they once did. But, I appreciate every […]
Animal Message of the Day: Ginny
From Ginny: “I am grateful to know love and tenderness. I have had moments of pain in my life that were fairly challenging. Yet, what got me through them was the love shown to me by others who were helping me. The gift of love is a most amazing gift. And out of the love […]
Special Message
Special Message: This is a time of great turmoil for so many. But it is also a time for coming together and to remember the beauty of what life has to offer. Everywhere we turn, there are continual messages about COVID-19. And the level of fear and anxiety keeps ratcheting up higher and higher. Spring […]
Willow and the Wheel
Watch our cat Willow enjoy her exercise wheel on her porch while enjoying a sunny day. A few years ago, some wonderful human donated us this cat wheel after their own cats wouldn’t use it. Over the years, we have moved it from cat room to cat room but never found any real interest in […]
Short Video Tour of Spring Farm CARES
See CATS at the Stanley Theatre in Utica, NY and help SFC cats too!
Thank you to Broadway Utica for your support!
You Did It!!!
A huge thank you to all of our donors and supporters! We did reach the $30,000 goal for our matching donation! We are so grateful to all of you! It is not just your financial support that helps us. Your words of support and encouragement and energy and prayers all help us to keep going, […]
Message of the Day – From Dawn Hayman
From Dawn Hayman:Â Today we stand on the threshold of one year ending and another beginning. We turn the page to a new chapter as we gently break in the binding of our book, remembering the last chapter, and eagerly starting the next to see where our story goes. Today is the start of a new […]
Animal Message of the Day – Carley
From Carley: “I have learned so much in such a short time. I’m still learning and I suspect I will be learning my whole life. You see, I didn’t start out in such a great place. But the truth is that I knew no other place before that, so I thought that where I was living […]
Animal Message of the Day – Belle
From Belle: “I have done this message ritual for many years now. I actually requested to be a part of it again this year. I do not interact much with humans. Actually, that is not totally true. Humans just think that I don’t interact with them because I don’t like them handling me. But I […]