Dobby and Gandalf celebrate nada-father’s day!!
GUESS WHO…is finally at CSU??? Dobby and Gandalf, our biggest Nada-moos are getting all ready to celebrate nada-father’s day!! Broken Shovels is a no-balls zone, which is the only responsible way to keep rescued animals, making sure they can’t reproduce. While we don’t have any lady buffs, you never know when that request could come […]
BIG DREAM TIME
BIG DREAM TIME!! This is the beautiful chicken habitat we built last year, we scrimped and saved to buy big houses for every flock and make enclosures 3x a large as they’d had before. And so we’ve seen a year where our birds are happier than they’ve ever been. The staff of Broken Shovels spends […]
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT TIME!!!!!!
Previous image Next image BIG ANNOUNCEMENT TIME!! Last week, we had one of the most amazing days the sanctuary has ever experienced. Two of our heroes, @govofco and @firstgentmarlonreis dropped by the sanctuary and got some major smooches from the worlds cutest rescued farm animals. There were many smiles and tears as we took in this incredible honor. It […]
Shirley & Marta
No business meeting at the sanctuary will ever not be interrupted by something beautiful happening. It’s a fact. When Shirley Cat first met Marta, she resisted her pleas for friendship. But it didn’t take long to give in fully to the sweetness of this incredible sheep. Everyone deserves to be loved and treasured like this. […]
MATEO COMES HOME
Becoming a new mom to a disabled newborn has taken up A LOT of my time this week, so we’ve been a little absent here, adjusting to new schedules and trying to get everything just right for baby boy Mateo to thrive. I have some really big news to share today, something special that happened […]
MATEO IS ON HIS WAY HOME!!
This strong, brave, miracle baby is ON HIS WAY HOME!!! Stay tuned for more, thank you to EVERYONE who helped us to get here. This is a long road to recovery ahead, and we’ll need you all along the way ❤️???? We love you already, Mateo.
Connie ????
Connie was rescued at ten years old after being surrendered to a shelter where she was in jeopardy of being fed to other animals, simply because she was old and wasn’t laying a lot of eggs anymore. She immediately found her soulmate in our board member/volunteer/special needs foster @morgan_for_the_animals , and went to live with her permanently. […]
Rain Rain Go AWAY!
WHAT IS GOING ON?? Friends, I don’t even know what to say or what to do at this point. This is unprecedented ???????????? We were feeling so good yesterday getting such a lot of cleanup and rebuilding done, and todays deluge wasn’t even forecasted. We made an emergency run for more straw, but we are […]
Snacks Make the Rain Bearable
We’ve been handing you a lot of doom and gloom, but we don’t want you to forget that we are actually in the business of happiness. We’re still doing the work, just with a few extra tears. Watch a little blind cow and a very entitled buffalo get the snacks they were begging and mooing […]
MATEO UPDATE!!
MATEO UPDATE! So….surgery didn’t go quite as well as we had hoped. Once they got in there, the bone was not viable for the metal plate repair. So we had two choices: euthanasia or amputation. Amputation is not ideal for a cow, especially on a front leg since cows carry 60% of their weight in […]