My Gentle Barn

My Gentle Barn

By Ellie Laks

Founder Ellie Laks tells the story of how she started the Gentle Barn, after adopting a sick goat from a run-down petting zoo in 1999. Some two hundred animals later (including chickens, horses, pigs, cows, rabbits, emus, and more), her rescues include mainly sick, elderly, abused and neglected, owner forfeited, and abandoned animals. Ellie Laks worked tirelessly to take these abandoned animals, one by one, and rehabilitate and heal them, no matter how deep their physical and emotional wounds and scars were. The Gentle Barn has become an extraordinary nonprofit that brings together a volunteer staff of community members and at-risk teens to rehabilitate abandoned and/or abused animals. As Ellie teaches the volunteers to care for the animals, they learn a new language of healing that works wonders on the humans as well.  My Gentle Barn is filled with heartwarming animal stories and inspiring recoveries. My Gentle Barn is a feel-good account that will delight animal lovers and memoir readers alike.

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