When you sponsor an animal for a month you will make a HUGE impact on the animal’s life by helping provide food, bedding and vet care. With your donation, you will receive a special downloadable certificate of sponsorship as well as a coupon for one free Sanctuary Stroll to be redeemed upon arrival. Come out and meet the animals you’ve sponsored, so they can thank you themselves!

Napoleon didn’t come to us easily — and honestly, we respect him for it.

After receiving a call from animal control about a bull who had been on the run for months and was dangerously close to the interstate, we knew we had to act fast. What Napoleon had survived on his own was remarkable: months of isolation, freezing food and water sources, sub-zero temperatures and brutal wind with no shelter in sight. He had faced it all alone — no small thing for an animal who was never meant to be.

When he finally arrived at the sanctuary, he was scared, and he made sure we knew it. Fear-based aggression is something we understand well here. It isn’t a character flaw — it’s what happens when an animal has had no reason to trust. So we did what we always do: we showed up, day after day, with patience and kindness and no agenda other than earning his.

It worked.

Napoleon now lives for a good head scratch and takes his role very seriously as the leader of our big cow herd — a title he holds with full confidence, despite being one of the smallest cows on the property. The irony is not lost on us, and we love him for it.

He fought hard for his freedom. We’re honored to be the ones who get to give it to him.

To gift this sponsorship to someone you love, see the instructions below.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This sponsorship includes a certificate for download. No physical item will be shipped. You will automatically receive an order confirmation email, followed by an email containing a link to your certificate and information about your sponsored resident. You will then have 24 hours to open and download the sponsorship packet. You are welcome to print anything in the packet, or you may download it and send it to your gift recipient by email. The Sanctuary Stroll pass included with the download may only be used once.