Imagine a pet that greets you with a joyful bleat, waddles behind you like a loyal pup, or even lays your breakfast eggs. Sounds like a dream, right? Farm animals are breaking free from their barnyard ...

More than 1,500 animal sanctuaries operate throughout the U.S., each providing its inhabitants with unique, individualized care and a forever home. Most animals that enter sanctuaries have experienced ...

HOWELL -- Milk and Sugar are goats that were abandoned as babies in a box on a roadside in Plumsted. Today they are among the 60-plus animals, many of them rescued, that populate Samrock Stables Not ...

NEW YORK (AP) — They’re adorable. They require less food and space. And without much coaxing, they might help cut the grass. Americans are showing more interest in owning miniature cows, goats, ...

The federal government mostly leaves policy about the housing and treatment of farm animals to the states, but there is increasing interest in a more active federal role, perhaps through the next farm ...

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