Does Animal Place adopt any of the animals out?
Very rarely. In general there are very few people who want to adopt. Most people don’t take proper care of their dogs let alone farmed animals. What is the biggest challenge for you in this endeavor? What is the greatest reward? A very rich life, rarely monotonous. There are extreme joys and celebration each time you save somebody, but you deal more with the extreme woes because you are seeing the results of cruelty. We have been on a couple local cruelty cases ourselves because animal control won’t do anything about it. One was the recent rescue of Bert who was a seven year-old durox pig who was the worst starvation case I have ever seen, in all my years in animal control and humane work. I mean he was a skeleton—a skeleton with hide draped over him. On another case, somebody alerted us to a pasture with almost a hundred goats and sheep with absolutely no care. We found no less than two dozen animals dead in different stages of decomposition. Seeing all that stuff firsthand is why we
