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catbyte

(34,174 posts)
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 01:38 PM Jan 2019

Goat Family At Nightmare Farm Always Hoped Help Would Come

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
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Goat Family At Nightmare Farm Always Hoped Help Would Come (Original Post) catbyte Jan 2019 OP
Black Beauty Ranch SouthernIrish Jan 2019 #1
Amazon Smile? TuxedoKat Jan 2019 #2
Such sweet beautiful creatures ... CatMor Jan 2019 #3
Hear! Hear! For Cleveland Amory and those who keep his name. NBachers Jan 2019 #4
Ha! I didn't know that was a person ToxMarz Jan 2019 #6
Also, it's in Texas. n/t kag Jan 2019 #9
I'm not sure where it's located. Is it anywhere near DFW? NBachers Jan 2019 #15
Looks like it's about an hour southeast of Dallas kag Jan 2019 #16
What adorable babies. 3catwoman3 Jan 2019 #5
That's what I think, 3catwoman3. kag Jan 2019 #10
Yes! oldsoftie Jan 2019 #12
💕 Duppers Jan 2019 #7
I give monthly to The Humane Society. lunatica Jan 2019 #13
Baby goats are so cute!!!! n/t MicaelS Jan 2019 #8
Thank goodness they were rescued. Scarsdale Jan 2019 #11
Beautiful little twins! Bayard Jan 2019 #14
Junebell is beautiful! red dog 1 Jan 2019 #17
Such a happy story! smirkymonkey Jan 2019 #18

SouthernIrish

(512 posts)
1. Black Beauty Ranch
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 01:48 PM
Jan 2019

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)
2. Amazon Smile?
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 02:32 PM
Jan 2019

I will check to see if they are listed as participating in same and designate them for awhile.

ToxMarz

(2,154 posts)
6. Ha! I didn't know that was a person
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 03:23 PM
Jan 2019

I read it as Cleveland ARmory, which seemed like an odd place to take rescued animals.

kag

(4,076 posts)
16. Looks like it's about an hour southeast of Dallas
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 04:54 PM
Jan 2019

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)
5. What adorable babies.
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 03:18 PM
Jan 2019

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)
10. That's what I think, 3catwoman3.
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 03:55 PM
Jan 2019

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.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
11. Thank goodness they were rescued.
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 04:15 PM
Jan 2019

The babies are adorable. Junebell is cute, too. Thanks for posting, and a big thank you to the rescuers.

red dog 1

(27,648 posts)
17. Junebell is beautiful!
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 06:46 PM
Jan 2019

And so are her babies.

Have the owners of that awful place been charged with Cruelty to Animals?

I miss Cleveland Amory.

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