Horse, Goat and Sheep Stories

Best Friends volunteers from Colorado discover their new favorite species -- goats! The couple brought the goats gifts to show their love.

Rescued goat saved from feedlot shows his gregarious, outgoing and friendly personality and finds love at the Sanctuary.

Piggy Paradise at Best Friends offers the perfect setting for goats and pigs to have play dates, which in turn makes them happier, more well-adjusted and more adoptable!

Dwarf goat and his Nubian goat pals have tons of fun with clicker and agility training. These highly trainable animals are fast learners.

Mammoth donkey (a big breed of donkey) receives physical therapy to recover from surgery, but there were challenges along the way.

Best Friends intern works with two shy Nubian goats to help socialize them and make them more adoptable.

See photos of an intelligent horse who can open latched doors. Gracie the white horse is a very smart girl.

Contact your representatives to ask them to support proposed legislation to end horse slaughter in the United States once and for all.

Please lend your voice to end the inhumane killing of horses.

Family adopts a second senior horse who is no longer rideable but is a perfect friend and companion animal.

A review of the reasons horses lose their homes and/or are abandoned and what can be done about this problem.

Woman finally realizes her childhood dream of having a horse when she falls in love with and adopts a horse from Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.

A head-strong donkey receives training that requires a lot of patience from her trainer, and a Shetland pony basks in the spotlight at the Sanctuary.

Donkey does her best to make some friends with two horses by doing volunteer food clean-up. Horses aren't impressed.

Belle the mule comes to the Sanctuary after her family of 24 years can no longer care for her. She is a beautiful and well-behaved girl.