The Fund for Animals Inc.

The Fund for Animals' direct animal care operations provide veterinary treatment for thousands of animals year-round, while training volunteers and supporting their local communities.

•The Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch, is the flagship legacy of author and The Fund for Animals Founder, Cleveland Amory. This 1,400-acre refuge in the rolling hills of east Texas, provides permanent sanctuary for nearly 1,000 rescued animals. With over 40 species—ranging from chimps and camels to horses and tigers—this world-renowned facility is the largest and most diverse of its kind. The Sanctuary is also home to the Doris Day Equine Center, which focuses on developing optimum programs to elevate the public perception of horses rescued from cruelty and neglect. In addition to our hands-on rescue, rehabilitation, training and placement of equines, we serve as a resource and support system to rescue centers around the country.

•The Fund for Animals Wildlife Center in Ramona, California, provides year-round rehabilitative and medical care to injured and orphaned wildlife and specializes in native predator species such as bobcats, coyotes, bears and eagles. The facility is also a safe home for some animals rescued from the pet trade who cannot be released to the wild. Our facility also assists the community with humane solutions to wildlife conflicts and works with 20 student interns each year preparing them for careers in wildlife conservation, biology and the veterinary field.

•Duchess Sanctuary was established in 2008 as a safe haven for formerly abused, abandoned and neglected horses. Situated on 1,120 acres outside of the charming town of Oakland, Oregon, it offers permanent sanctuary to more than 190 equines. Much of the herd was rescued from the Pregnant Mare Urine (PMU) industry, while other residents were rescued from public lands, auctions, feedlots and other dangerous situations.

The Fund for Animals operates three animal care facilities that provide a healthy environment and skilled care for injured and abused animals. As the nation's largest and most diverse network of animal care centers in terms of geographic locations and species helped, The Fund for Animals not only rescues and provides direct assistance for animals in crisis, but also places and additional focus on preventing cruelty and abuse through our advocacy, education, training, and outreach programs.

In 2005, The Fund for Animals and The Humane Society of the United States joined together to form an unprecedented partnership for animals. Since then, The Fund for Animals has expanded its efforts to protect animals from cruelty and provide for their veterinary, sanctuary, and rehabilitative needs at several direct animal care facilities.

The Fund for Animals has won legal actions to protect endangered species and prevent inhumane hunting and trapping practices, and the organization is currently fighting for animals with the help of the Animal Protection Litigation section. This group of full-time attorneys, law clerks, and pro bono law firms are defending animals in federal and state courts from cruelty and abuse. The Fund for Animals' current advocacy programs seek to protect wildlife from toxic lead poisoning, stop canned hunts, prevent the commercial trade in wildlife parts, and more.

2012: The Fund for Animals filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over delisting Wyoming's gray wolves from the Endangered Species list. The Fund for Animals helped to fight the ownership, exploitation, and public contact of dangerous exotic wildlife for commercial gain by filing a rulemaking petition with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch completed their new visitor center and on-site guest suites, which helped pave the way for new initiatives and events, and took in tigers rescued from a roadside zoo in Mississippi.

2013: Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch completed and opened the Dr. John Hensley Veterinary Hospital, a 3,600-square-foot facility made to accommodate small, large and exotic animals, and completed a new equine handling facility designed in partnership with Temple Grandin. The Doris Day Equine Center launched Forever Foundation, a training program for other equine rescue centers to learn humane training methods. Volunteers and staffers worked tirelessly to open a new medical center at The Fund for Animals Wildlife Center. With the help of the Ark Watch Foundation, Duchess Sanctuary welcomed the addition of a 4,000 square-foot equine barn.

2014: The Fund for Animals along with other groups declared victory in a lawsuit to restore protections for gray wolves under the Endangered Species Act. In addition to the completion of several new animal care facilities, phase one of the big cat habitat was completed at Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch. The new habitat contains three spacious yards complete with natural vegetation, hiding spaces, dens, platforms and ponds. The Forever Foundation program of Doris Day Equine Center worked with 19 organizations from across the U.S. to improve the adoption rates of horses in their care through training. The Fund for Animals Wildlife Center accepted their first bear for rehabilitation. In June, The Fund for Animals and other groups filed a legal petition with the Department of Interior to ban the use of lead ammunition on state and government properties.

2015: Thanks to a generous donor, The Fund for Animals Wildlife Care Center refurbished a 20-year-old flight cage used to recondition the wing muscles in osprey and eagle patients. Cleveland Amory's 52-year-old chimpanzee Lulu broke records when she became the first known chimp in a North America Primate Sanctuary Alliance facility to complete a voluntary blood draw, allowing her caregivers to collect enough blood for a full blood panel.

2016: Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch opened the Ranch of Dreams Tour, enabling donors to visit The Fund for Animals flagship sanctuary on pre-scheduled appointments. The Fund for Animals petitions the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to extend full Endangered Species Act protection to African leopards, to reduce pressure on the animals from trophy hunters.