"I don’t have human children. I have animal children," Laurie Zaleski tells PEOPLE of the more than 600 rescue animals she cares for at Funny Farm Rescue & Sanctuary in Mays Landing, N.J. When Laurie ...

The COVID-19 pandemic brought lasting changes to many families across the Eastern Shore of Maryland. For one family, that change was a farm and a lot of animals. “I don’t know if anybody remembers, we ...

HAMILTON TOWNSHIP — The Funny Farm Rescue Animal Sanctuary held its annual Fall Festival on Sunday, Oct. 10 at its 15-acre site in the Mizpah section of the township. Hundreds of visitors came to the ...

The image of two mangled, abandoned calves set the tone in “Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals” by Laurie Zaleski. Immediately, the author pulls you into a tragedy full of poverty ...

MIZPAH, N.J. — Even if you're prepared, making the turn into Funny Farm Animal Rescue, where the speed limit drops to 1 mile per hour, is like entering another, better, world. It's not quite the goat ...

MAYS LANDING, New Jersey (WPVI) -- "Most of these animals had no chance," said Laurie Zaleski. "They were set to be euthanized, so we were the last stop." Zaleski, owner and founder of Funny Farm in ...

MAYS LANDING – An animal sanctuary that rescued scores of abused birds over the weekend could use some help of its own. Funny Farm Rescue on Saturday took in more than 150 birds, many of them very ...

“Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals” by Laurie Zaleski (St. Martin’s Press) As its title promises, Laurie Zaleski’s memoir about how she came to found and run a large animal rescue ...

Tucker, a black 4-year-old German Shepherd, followed Laurie Zaleski everywhere as she worked on her 15-acre farm in Mays Landing last month. Nothing out of the ordinary for anyone who knows the love ...

MIZPAH, N.J. — Even if you’re prepared, making the turn into Funny Farm Animal Rescue, where the speed limit drops to 1 mile per hour, is like entering another, better, world. It’s not quite the goat ...