Kindness Ranch: A Wyoming safe haven for former lab animals

Amy the Beagle greets another of the ranch’s lab rescued animals as Animal Care and Behavior Manager Erica Stovken looks on.
Volunteer Haley (on the left) and staff members Bridget and Kayley taking dogs for a walk.
Executive Director Maranda Weathermon plays with a ranch resident.
Visitors Sandy and David on the steps of their guest yurt.

What does freedom look like? For some lucky dogs, cats, pigs, sheep, alpacas, cows and horses, it’s endless rolling green pasture and grassland, open skies full of sunshine and starlight, earth under their feet, and companions to play with. It’s the absence of fear, pain and stress. It’s a place in Wyoming called Kindness Ranch, the only USDA-approved sanctuary in the U.S. that takes in all sorts of animals used in laboratory research. At 1,000 acres, the ranch has ample room for the rescued animals who live there as well as for people who like to combine getting away and doing good.




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