Iowa Farm Sanctuary receives global accreditation

OXFORD, Iowa (KCRG) – Iron Man and Glitter are the names of two pigs that have been rescued by the Iowa Farm Sanctuary group. Their dwelling just lately received accreditation from the World Federation of Animal Sanctuaries. It acknowledges a excessive stage of care.

Solely 150 different farms on the earth have this distinction and that is the one one in Iowa.

Assistant Director, Katie Valentine says the highway to achieve this objective wasn’t simple.

“We needed to put collectively quite a lot of protocols and insurance policies, both ones that we already had or create from scratch,” she advised TV-9.

However Co-Founder, Shawn Camp says they remained diligent, figuring out we’re doing this for the animals.

“Farm animal rescues are actually new so there aren’t quite a lot of licenses or checks and balances to guarantee that these farm animal rescues are doing the precise issues,” mentioned Camp.

For a lot of of their animals, frequent vet visits and quite a lot of extra care is one thing that’s a necessity. It’s additionally one thing that requires quite a lot of funding, most of which comes from donors. Which is why this accreditation means that rather more to the farm.

“It instills quite a lot of confidence and religion in our donors that we’re a good group,” mentioned Valentine.

“It proves that not solely are we financially accountable, however we’re offering the utmost and finest care to our animals past simply offering them a house,” mentioned Camp.

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