This is Justin’s (below and previous picture) mother Maisie, who was rescued from a dairy farm that was closing down. All her previous calves had been taken away from her, but now she finally gets to be with her baby.

She is having a bit of a face-off with Eliot, who has a heartbreaking story that I’ll explain with the next picture.

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The Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary is a 400-acre nonprofit refuge in Poolesville, Maryland, that offers care, rehabilitation and permanent sanctuary for neglected, abused or abandoned farm animals as well as providing a protected habitat for wildlife. They promote compassion and the humane treatment of all animals by educating the public on farm animal and wildlife issues.

A husband and wife team along with 100 volunteers and 8 staff care for more than 300 rescued farm animals, each with a name and a story of their rescue, and most of them quite friendly to humans. They’ve been in operation for 21 years, receive no public funding and survive only on donations.

For more information on the refuge, go to http://www.animalsanctuary.org

Justin, the new calf on the block, posted earlier: