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The best people found them just in time for a special surprise 💗By Kristen Warfield
With a pen full of frozen mud and no food to eat, the goats stood huddled together for warmth.
It was only the start of winter and the little family was already freezing cold and starving inside the run-down barn they were forced to call home.
One of the skinny goats, a female named Junebell, was very pregnant and due to give birth any day. But little did she know, this would be the last time her family would ever need to wish that life would get better.
Help was on the way.
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Emaciated and suffering from a drove of respiratory problems, the animals were brought in to Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch in Texas where they were warmed up, fed and treated with love for the first time in a while.
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After enduring such neglect during her pregnancy, Junebell is now settled in to the most comfortable maternity suite where she can nurse and snuggle with her kids and have plenty of food to eat.
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https://www.thedodo.com/on-the-farm/goat-family-rescued-from-squalid-maryland-farm
SouthernIrish
(512 posts)is a wonderful sanctuary for all types of animals that have been neglected and abused. They are listed as one of my beneficiaries when I die. They are wonderful stewards of the world.
TuxedoKat
(3,818 posts)I will check to see if they are listed as participating in same and designate them for awhile.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)kudos to the Black Beauty Ranch for their loving care.
NBachers
(17,007 posts)ToxMarz
(2,154 posts)I read it as Cleveland ARmory, which seemed like an odd place to take rescued animals.
kag
(4,076 posts)NBachers
(17,007 posts)kag
(4,076 posts)in Murchison Texas, Henderson County. I grew up in Longview, just a little further east, right on I-20, but I've never been to the ranch.
3catwoman3
(23,820 posts)How heart-warming that everyone was rescued.
It would seem fitting if those who are cruel to animals could be made to experience the same conditions that they inflict on those they have abused.
kag
(4,076 posts)I've watched a bunch of rescue videos from puppy mills, hoarders, etc. The Animal Rescue Corp, SPCA, and Humane Society all post them. They are heartbreaking, but also life-affirming. Watching the rescuers take the animals and show them love for the first time will make you smile/cry.
oldsoftie
(12,410 posts)So glad these sweeties were saved.
I donate to the HSUS, a worthy org.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)I love animals!
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)The babies are adorable. Junebell is cute, too. Thanks for posting, and a big thank you to the rescuers.
Bayard
(21,806 posts)I love baby goaties! These look like Pygmy goats.
red dog 1
(27,648 posts)And so are her babies.
Have the owners of that awful place been charged with Cruelty to Animals?
I miss Cleveland Amory.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I am so glad this beautiful goat family was rescued! They are so beautiful!