The Humane Farming Association's (HFA) Suwanna Ranch is the world's largest rescue facility ever created for abused farm animals. Spanning over seven square miles, Suwanna Ranch provides for the ever-growing number of rescued animals that come to us as a result of animal cruelty cases.

During the course of HFA's anti cruelty investigations, we are constantly confronted with the need to offer hands-on emergency care, rehabilitation, and refuge for abused and battered animals brought to us from across the country.

HFA has long provided care, rehabilitation, and refuge to farm animals at its previous facilities. The acquisition of Suwanna Ranch has added an entirely new dimension to animal protection efforts nationwide.

HFA is the only major national organization with a farm animal shelter that has never turned away farm animals seized as a result of a cruelty case. The knowledge that HFA stands ready to provide both temporary and permanent care for farm animal victims of abuse encourages law enforcement agencies to use their legal authority to confiscate them and to remove them from the clutches of cruelty.

Some of HFA's rescued animals were intentionally tortured. Some had suffered from chronic neglect at the hands of greedy owners. But they will never be harmed again.

The cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, goats, and other animals HFA cares for each year all arrive with their own tragic stories. But they are stories which can now have happy endings. Victims of cruelty find things at HFA that they may have never before experienced. For the first time in their lives, they find compassionate and caring human beings. People who are there to help them, rather than to hurt them.

In addition to saving mistreated domestic animals, Suwanna Ranch also functions as a wildlife sanctuary. Several areas within Suwanna Ranch are protected habitats for deer, coyote, bobcat, bear, raccoon, possum, owl, eagle, hawk, quail, wild turkey, egret, great blue heron, and other wildlife.

The sheer magnitude of HFA's new refuge ensures that rescued animals will have acres and acres on which to graze, heal, and explore as they recover from cruelty and abuse.