Sale Ranch Animal Sanctuary is run.
Since then, SRAS has become home to residents of all types, not just goats and horses. Since Kid Rock and Clover’s rescue, SRAS has become a refuge for goats, sheep, donkeys, horses, pot belly pigs, market pigs, and dogs, most of them were rescued from deplorable and unbelievable conditions. These animals have gone from hopeless to healed, and now in turn help heal members of the community including foster and at-risk children with SRAS’s foster child program. These children get to come out to the ranch, meet the animals in person, learn about our food industry, specifically how farm animals are treated in the industry, and decompress and feel the healing energy the residents of the ranch have to offer. It is a special offering that Jen feels is very important to share with the children that need it most.
SRAS Future
SRAS has big plans for the future, including expansion to a nearby property so they can offer forever refuge to spent dairy cows. Spent dairy cows are cows that have spent their life in service birthing baby after baby, so they can produce milk for human consumption. The babies are taken from their Mom right at birth and if they are a male they are culled or put in a veal crate. If they are a female, they are put on a milk replacer and impregnated as soon as possible so they can provide milk. Once these cows can no longer get pregnant, and therefore cannot produce milk anymore, they are considered “spent dairy cows” and are shipped to slaughter to become cheap ground beef such as hamburger. SRAS’s dream is to save some of these cows and give them a happy forever home in return for their years of service providing milk.
Since SRAS is in a high fire zone area, they are also in the process of acquiring a full-size truck and stock trailer that can be used for evacuating local farm animals if needed in a fire emergency. In addition to the truck and trailer, several volunteers will also be certified in large animal evacuation, so they can get in the fire zone and work with local law enforcement and fire to get animals out safely.
Jaime Purinton, with goat pals