For the love of farm animals

Does Valentine’s Day get your goat?
Too much of a chicken to get a date for the big night?
Reluctant to buy chocolates that you’ll only pig out on later?
Feeling sheepish that you still don’t know what to get your loved one?

Farm Sanctuary has the solution for your valentine’s woes with its Warm Hearts and Save Lives by Sponsoring a Farm Animal in Need program. As the largest rescue and refuge organization for farm animals in North America, with locations in New York and California, Farm Sanctuary has plenty of four-footed and feathered friends who would benefit from your love this Valentine’s Day.

So ditch the romantic jitters and sponsor a barnyard of critters. Donations from sponsors provide rescued farm animals with food, veterinary care, and safe refuge. In return, sponsors receive a certificate featuring a color photo of their adopted animal, the opportunity to attend a VIP tour to meet their new farm friend, and the satisfaction of supporting an organization that has saved more than 12,000 farm animals from abuse and neglect.

Visit action.farmsanctuary.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=15801.0&printer_friendly=1 to check out McDreamy the duck and the other animals awaiting your Valentine’s Day sponsorship. —Joy Schmoll

Take a cue from the farm animals and show your love with a Valentine’s Day sponsorship.
(Photo used with permission from Farm Sanctuary.)

Cow crossing—”odd, rare and random”

You know what they say—you should always be careful when riding a bike, especially when you encounter a cow.

A woman was recently riding her bike in Boulder, Co. when she stopped to allow a cow to cross. The bovine instead knocked the woman over and stepped on her legs. The woman, whose name hasn’t been released, refused medical treatment and was not seriously hurt.

But I bet that’s the last time she tries to be polite to a cow!