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Welcome to The Furrytale Farm. . .a place where old and unwanted animals can come and live out their days in peace and comfort. . .a place where abused and abandoned animals can learn to trust again and have a second chance at happily ever after. . .a place where neighs mingle with brays, where oinks are truly squeals of delight, and where woofs are welcoming. . .a place where kids learn to respect and value animals and learn in turn to respect and value themselves.

Now in its tenth year of operation, the farm is currently home to horses, mules, donkeys, goats, potbellied pigs, dogs, and cats. Tucked away in the middle of beautiful Bainbridge Island, Washington, where few other than the neighbors know it exists, half a dozen people are quietly making it happen every day.

The Furrytale Farm is a no-kill multi-species rescue facility that provides its residents with sound nutrition, complete medical care, and a comprehensive rehabilitation program. It features open societies for the equines who frolic with one another in their pastures, for the porcines who root happily side by side in their yard, and for the canines, who play together, eat together, sleep together, and share their home with the farm’s founder, Suzannah Sloan.

It was Sloan’s idea to end some of the misery and save part of the world when she bought the eight-acre sheep farm in 1998 and turned it into an animal sanctuary. Little did she know how much larger her world would become than those eight acres, as she now looks for both public and private funding to keep the farm going and continue the rescue work.




It was also Sloan's concept to combine education with her rescue and rehabilitation efforts. Believing that preventing animal abuse is far preferable to treating it, the farm currently runs a number of programs aimed at persuading children from all over the Puget Sound area that there are always alternatives to mistreating animals. So far, results indicate that it's a win-win situation.

Each year, over one hundred animals are cared for at Furrytale. Each year, some three hundred children participate in the farm's unique programs.

There are two kinds of animals that come to Furrytale. . .those who can be cured, healed, rehabilitated, and adopted to good homes, and those who can be cured, healed, rehabilitated, but have no other place to go, and so stay at the farm for the rest of their lives. Each has a face to remember, and a story to tell. We invite you to meet some of them, hear their stories, and then decide how you might be able to help