Tribe Animal Sanctuary

05/27/2026

Tongue 👅 Out Tuesday brought to you today by Gideon! ❤️

05/25/2026

We spent Memorial Day giving pedicures to all the Tribe goats! Beautiful Heather seems happy with her trim. 🩷☮️🐐🌱




If you need your goat’s or goats’ hooves trimmed, and live within 3 hours, one way, from the sanctuary, give us a call, to schedule. Or, if you want to save on travel fee, please call to schedule to bring your goat or goats to the sanctuary on a Sunday afternoon.

05/24/2026

When you just need to be by yourself!

05/24/2026

Sunday sofa buddies

05/24/2026

Strange bedfellows

05/23/2026

After a busy day yesterday, Greg and I were walking back to the house, to prepare for dinner feedings. Greg had just filled the hay trough. Sookie and Jenison were first to trot over for first dibs.

I see them every day. I interact with them every day, but for whatever reason, in that moment, I didn’t merely stopped. I paused. I didn’t just look at them, smile and rub their heads, which is the normal routine. I allowed myself to be filled with the emotions of gratitude, love and wonder. They are alive. They beat the odds. They are free. They are happy. They are safe. They are living their lives, without fear of being slaughtered and plated as food.

Blinking back tears, my heart welled up quickly, deeply grateful for Tribe supporters, who consistently support the mission, which allows precious lives to be saved and find sanctuary.

My hope, over the next few days, is every sanctuary supporter, who reads this post, will allow themselves to pause, to be filled with emotion, knowing you are truly part of a tribe of beings, who purposefully support animals, who are rarely respected and only seen as a commodity or product. Sanctuary supporter, whether you support Tribe or another vegan farm sanctuary, you are changing the world for good! Thank you!🩷☮️🌱

05/23/2026

Celebrate without exploitation or slaughter🩷☮️🌱

Make your family's Memorial Day cookout animal-friendly with these delicious vegan swaps ❤️💙

05/22/2026

Today was a $2,444 equine vet bill day at the sanctuary. We were expecting 1/2 that! 😬

Tribe horses and donkey received their spring vaccines, spring deworming, dental floats and the boys received sheath cleanings today and we were budgeted for that.

What we weren’t expecting or budgeted for today is Butters spraining his front left deep digital flexor tendon. At least, we are grateful, he decided to injure himself when the equine vet was here. Our wonderful equine vet gave him an anti-inflammatory injection and wrapped his leg, with a DSMO steroid cream. The wrap will remain in place for a week. We’ll, then, begin a 5 day regimen of phenylbutazone (bute) and then 5 days of an anti-inflammatory pill. I forgot the name of the pill and med is in the barn. After a week, we’ll remove his leg wrap, cold hose/soap wash his leg, wait a day and begin a 3-day regimen of DSMO cream, cold hose/wash his leg, wait a day and then another 3-days regimen. He will have to be stall rested for 8-12 weeks, which is basically all summer.
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What makes it worse is Butters and Clyde are joined at the hip so both are hollering at each other, over a pasture fence. We purposely put Butters in a stall, where he and Clyde can hear and see each other but neither are happy about the new set-up.

We have 14 different species living at the sanctuary and I will die on this hill, when I say horses are the most magnificent and the most fragile of all the animals. With 11K+ followers, if we ask 245 Tribe followers to donate $5, we would have the $1225 we weren’t budgeted for. Every donation counts!

Ways to Donate
🐴PayPal (debit or credit): https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=XK4WJYG27MYYG&source=url

🐴Venmo: Becki-Streif; [email protected] (7664)
Please make sure you are using correct Venmo with 7664 confirmation in order to avoid fake/scam accounts.

🐴Website: https://tribeanimalsanctuary.org/pages/donate

🐴Check: Tribe Animal Sanctuary, 2604 Flat Rock Road, Louisville KY 40245

05/22/2026

Mama Mia, Thor and Tootsie Pop patiently waiting for our equine vet. Today, all the Tribe horses and donkey receive their spring vaccines, spring deworming, dental floats and sheath cleanings for the boys.

This will be an expensive vet visit. If you are in a position to donate to support the Tribe horses, every donation counts!🩷☮️🐴🌱

🐴PayPal (debit or credit): https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=XK4WJYG27MYYG&source=url

🐴Venmo: Becki-Streif; [email protected] (7664)
Please make sure you are using correct Venmo with 7664 confirmation in order to avoid fake/scam accounts.

🐴Website: https://tribeanimalsanctuary.org/pages/donate

🐴Check: Tribe Animal Sanctuary, 2604 Flat Rock Road, Louisville KY 40245

05/22/2026

With 20 small ruminants, we were recently asked if we use a squeeze & tilt chute to trim hooves. The answer is no and we’re happy to share why.

While some believe squeeze & tilt chutes are safe to use, we find there are too many risks.
• Not all sanctuary sheep and goats are same size so using a squeeze and tilt chute isn’t a consideration as one, who is too small can slip through openings and one, who is too large or too long can become wedged.
• The squeeze mechanism immobilizes the ruminant, which is a scary experience for a prey animal. Applying too much pressure can cause internal injury, rib damage and breathing distress.
• At Tribe, we have sheep and goats, with horns. Self-catching headgates can be dangerous, as horns can get stuck.
•Sheep and goats are ruminants. Their stomachs have 4 compartments (rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum) which work together. Ruminants stand or lay down in a sternal position. A squeeze & tilt chute, puts them in a lateral position, which is can cause serious digestive and circulatory distress. We don’t feel the convenience is worth the risk.

At Tribe, we use a stand with a manual head-gate, so sanctuary sheep and goats are standing, never left unattended and cared for by trusted caregivers. Before a wonderful supporter donated the stand, we were on our knees. Even, today, when we travel to clip clients’ sheep wool or trim clients’ small ruminant hooves, we are on our knees, as we don’t have a mobile stand. Taking proper care of small ruminants is vital for their physical health. Providing a calm, fear-free, peaceful experience, while caring for them, is our goal!
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