Sweet BombDiggity Farms Farm Animal Rescue & Sanctuary

36 by name, plus the flock

Meet the Ambassadors

They live here for good and help us teach everyone they meet about their sweet personalities and unique needs. Here’s who you’ll be helping.

Horses2 ambassadorsBoth came to us through a kill pen
  • Rosie
  • Amelia
  • A chestnut horse and a white-and-brown paint horse grazing side by side in fly masks by a board fence
  • Close-up of a white-and-brown paint horse resting her nose over a gate
  • A chestnut horse with a white blaze resting her chin on a weathered board fence
  • A white-and-brown paint horse walking toward the camera across a winter pasture
  • A chestnut horse leaning over a red pipe gate on a sunny day
Rosie and Amelia, out on pasture
Mini donkeys8 ambassadors
  • Reba
  • Minnie Pearl
  • Hank
  • Loretta
  • Charlie
  • Rainey
  • Smith
  • Wesson
  • Four mini donkeys peeking out side by side from a red run-in shed with a green metal roof
  • A man in a Tennessee cap sitting cross-legged in the pasture with a cat in his lap while two mini donkeys lean in close
  • A spotted mini donkey wearing a garland of silk flowers, grazing in a green field
  • A smiling little girl getting a nuzzle from two mini donkeys
  • A group of five visitors smiling by the fence line with a brown-and-white mini donkey in front
  • Jules resting her cheek on a spotted mini donkey’s head in a hug
The mini donkeys, at home and meeting visitors
Kune Kune pigs5 ambassadors
  • Bubbles
  • Blossom
  • Buttons
  • Buttercup
  • Bocephus
  • A ginger Kune Kune pig with its nose in a pile of watermelon rinds on the grass
  • A muddy Kune Kune pig walking toward the camera while three more graze along the fence line
  • Close-up of a ginger-and-black Kune Kune pig with shaggy ears, nose-down in the clover
  • Four Kune Kune pigs trotting up a green hillside toward the camera
  • Four Kune Kune pigs crowded around a tipped-up wheelbarrow in their paddock
  • A ginger Kune Kune pig with black spots grazing on a winter pasture beside a small red shelter
The Kune Kune crew, out on pasture (and into the watermelon)
Goats12 ambassadorsMostly mini Nubians, plus a couple of Alpines
  • Caroline
  • Miles
  • Henry
  • Rosemary
  • Max
  • Biscuit
  • Charlie Brown
  • Linus
  • Schroeder
  • Lucy
  • Sally
  • Violet
  • A white mama goat watching over two brown-and-white kids wearing knit sweaters, one with pink flowers and one with little sheep, in a bedded stall
  • A floppy-eared Nubian goat looking straight at the camera in the barn aisle, with more goats behind her
  • A young boy and a woman feeding a group of goats from their hands on the lawn, with a red coop behind them
  • A woman and three young children meeting two goats along the fence line
The goats, meeting their public (sweaters optional)
Sebastopol geese3 ambassadors
  • Gigi
  • Alexander
  • Lillibet
  • A white Sebastopol goose with curly feathers stepping right up to the camera, with more geese behind
A Sebastopol goose, up close
Chickens & ducksThe flock

Our ducks are discarded Easter ducks, bought as ducklings for the holiday and let go once they grew up. They’re safe here now. The flock’s roll call is coming soon.

  • Jules hugging a red hen in the coop, in front of a wall of big red flowers
  • Jules smiling as she hand-feeds the hens along the roost in the flower-papered coop
  • Close-up of a red-brown chicken with a bright red comb, with more of the flock behind
  • Three hens eating from a dish in their straw-bedded run in front of the coop
  • Fluffy black and gray chickens pecking at a red dish of sprouted grass and a blueberry treat
  • A pale buff hen standing in the straw and looking at the camera, with the coop ramp behind her
  • A fluffy black-and-white speckled bantam chicken with frizzled feathers
  • A brown speckled duck standing in the grass next to a bin of treats
The flock: chickens of every feather, a hen who loves a hug, and a duck supervising the treat bin
Dogs & catsFarm family
  • Dukecoonhound
  • Skunk
  • Daisy
  • Sweetpea
  • Mama Kitty
  • Sandy

We focus on farm animals and leave dog and cat rescue to the groups who do it so well. But the dogs and cats who have found their way to our farm call it home for their whole lives, and they’re a very special part of our farm family. Our farm kitties and farm-cat fails live in their cat-dominium, protected and flourishing.

  • Duke, a red hound with a light collar, sound asleep in the sunny grass along a wire fence
  • Daisy, a brown-and-black striped tabby, lounging in the sun on a leafy green cat tree by a window
  • A black-and-white cat curled up asleep on a cushion in front of a rooster poster
  • Sweet Pea, a black-and-white cat, reaching one white paw down from a desk covered in papers
  • Sandy, a yellow tiger-striped kitten, and a young Skunk on a wooden fence rail
  • Four tabby kittens snuggled together on a rug
Duke, off duty, and the cat crew: Daisy on her tree, Sweet Pea at the desk, Sandy with a young Skunk

From the pasture

Rosie and Amelia, out of the kill pen

Rosie and Amelia came to us through a kill pen, the holding lot where horses wait to be shipped to slaughter. Imagine how scared they must have been. We worked with another rescue to bring them home. Sponsoring a horse keeps them fed, trimmed and cared for.

From the barn

Lillibet and the bucket-handle splint

Lillibet is one of our three Sebastopol geese. When she slipped a tendon in her hock, our vet team built her a splint out of a hardware-store bucket handle, and she went on cage rest to let it heal. The care she got made all the difference, and it’s the kind of everyday care our sponsors make possible.

Rainey, a gray-and-white spotted mini donkey, grazing in tall grass with goats behind her

From the barn

Rainey, our senior donkey

When Rainey came to live with us, we didn’t realize how old she was. Then she choked, and she needed emergency vet care. Moments like that one are exactly what the Dessie Fund is for.

Duke, a Redbone Coonhound, asleep in the sunny grass along a wire fence

From the farm family

Duke, back to health

Duke is a Redbone Coonhound who came to us underweight and with heartworms. We nurtured him back to health, and he’s home with us for good.

Skunk, a black-and-white tuxedo cat with three legs, sitting on the floor and licking his lips

From the cat-dominium

Skunk, on three legs

Someone shot Skunk, one of our farm cats, and he barely made it back to the barn. He had to have a leg amputated. Surgery like his is exactly what the Dessie Fund is for. Today he’s flourishing right alongside the rest of the cat crew.

Sweet Pea, a black-and-white cat, reaching one white paw down from a desk

From the cat-dominium

Sweet Pea, saved from the roadside

Sweet Pea was rescued from the side of the road, sick and near death. Now Sweet Pea is safe at home in the cat-dominium with the rest of the crew.

Ambassadors

Some come and stay.

They stay with us at the sanctuary and help us teach everyone they meet about their sweet personalities and unique needs.

Adoption

Some find their way home.

Others come through the rescue and sanctuary and find their way to a new loving home that will give them all the goodness.

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