When you sponsor an animal for a year you make a HUGE difference in their life. With your donation you will be helping Joey with all of his care, from routine vet visits to daily feedings.

With your yearly sponsorship (payments recurring monthly) you will receive quarterly updates and pictures of your resident in your email, your name on the IFS website, plus a spot on our exclusive sponsorship slideshow, viewable in the IFS store. Also, receive a free pass for all Sanctuary Strolls for the duration of your sponsorship!

Come out and meet the animals you’ve sponsored—so they can thank you themselves! This is the gift that keeps on giving, for you and for Joey .

For your convenience, this sponsorship will automatically renew each year until you choose to discontinue sponsor support.

Late one evening in early July 2020, we were contacted by another sanctuary regarding a young goat located in Oklahoma who was in a desperate situation. The initial photos of Joey were so gruesome that we had to include warnings when we shared them on social media. Joey had suffered severe degloving injuries on both of his front legs, and his “guardians” – unwilling to provide him with medical care – planned to end his life with a bullet. 

We knew that we had to get Joey to safety, so we immediately began planning his rescue. Thanks to the compassion of humans all around the country, we were able to put a plan into action. But Joey’s condition was so critical that he couldn’t make the journey to Iowa. Instead, he was welcomed with open arms at Oklahoma State University (OSU) large animal hospital where he was given lifesaving care. 

Joey blew everyone at OSU away with his sweetness, determination, and resilience. He was barely able to stand or walk when he was first rescued, but with a whole lot of TLC, our courageous little Joey was up and walking again much sooner than anyone expected! After a few weeks of intensive daily wound care, Joey’s legs were healed enough for him to receive skin grafts on both of his front legs. 

With his skin grafts successfully healed, Joey was finally ready to make his homecoming journey to Iowa in mid-September 2020. Even though he was a long-distance IFS family member for the first two months that we knew him, we’ve loved him from the moment he came into our lives. We are so thankful that our precious little Joey is finally home. He will never know anything but love, kindness, and safety for the rest of his life. 

Note: degloving injuries are a type of injury in which a large section of skin is fully torn away from the body; we do not know the source of Joey’s injuries, but his veterinarian suspects that it could have been caused by entanglement in barbed wire.

NOTE: For sponsorships, please allow up to 3 business days for your sponsorship package to be created with care and delivered to the recipient's email address.