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!

Rob is probably the shyest resident in the IFS family. This handsome fella prefers lots of space from humans, though he’ll sometimes surprise us by coming over for a head pet.

Rob has a very close group of friends, who we call the “shy guys”. You might think that Rob’s friends are other sheep, but you’d only be partially right! Rob’s close-knit crew includes sheep, goats, and one gigantic, gentle cow. They roam the sanctuary as a pack, providing comfort and reassurance to one another.

It’s not hard to understand why Rob is so shy, since he experienced a serious trauma before he was surrendered to the sanctuary. Rob was born into a school agriculture program, where he would have been fattened up and sent to slaughter. But sweet Rob was attacked by a coyote and suffered a devastating wound to his neck.

The caretaker at the farm nursed Rob back to health and couldn’t stand the thought of him going to slaughter. Instead, the caretaker arranged for Rob’s freedom and called us as he was on his way to the butcher- and even better, he arranged for Rob’s best friend, Steve, to be saved with him.

Today, Rob and Steve are inseparable, living their best lives at the sanctuary. Beneath all his hair, Rob still has a large scar from his coyote attack, but he otherwise made a full physical recovery. The memory of the coyote attack surely lingers, but we can see that Rob feels safe and secure here at the sanctuary with his chosen family.

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.