Sadness to Sweetness

Perhaps you've read Angelo's story by now? Angelo is a lamb. He was born last month -- while his mother was crammed in a truck of sheep bound for slaughter in New York. His mother and the other hundred sheep met their horrible fate, but a passerby rescued Angelo upon seeing his newborn figure during the unloading. Like nearly all the nonhuman animals we exploit for their flesh, milk, eggs, skin, wool, and more, Angelo did not get to know his mother. And she did not get to know him. She didn't experience just the usual trauma of transport, abuse, intense fear, and violent death -- she simultaneously had to experience the loss of her baby, the distress of not being able to comfort him, care for him, or even know what became of him after his birth. And a newborn lamb was left without a mother in a frightening new world.

But Angelo is still one of the rarest of the rare; he was rescued instead of slaughtered and taken to Farm Sanctuary. And though it's impossible not to mourn for him and mourn for his mother -- and for the billions of others like them -- there is still joy to be found in witnessing Angelo's now-protected life. Following are 75 seconds of a baby's bliss (and other sanctuary residents' curious interest in the energetic young fellow):
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