Goats in the pasture

Your donations will allow us to expand our pastures and therefore allows us to rescue more animals in need. Money raised will also pay for new pens and shelters for animals needing protection from the elements and predators. An anonymous donor is willing to match every donation through April 1st, finally putting our expansion needs within reach!

Goat Mountain Ranch Sanctuary is home to dozens of animals, including pigs, sheep, chickens, peacocks, dogs, a donkey, a cat, and of course goats! We have large pastures for grazing, but we’re only able to use a fraction of our available land because most of it is not yet fenced.

We are located just outside of Asheville, NC and are one of the few sanctuaries in the area who accommodate farm animals. Visit our Donate page to help!

Fritz, the Billy Goat

This handsome billy goat came to us from the Buncombe County Animal Shelter. He will live out a long and happy life at a foster home with other goats!

Thanks so much to the Asheville Humane Society for posting the great news on their website! And, of course, for all they do to help so many animals every day.

Photo from The Laurel Of Asheville Magazine

The Laurel Of Asheville Magazine toured our sanctuary recently, and wrote a nice article in their February edition!

The article tells the story of how Goat Mountain Ranch Sanctuary came into existence, how it got it’s name, where the first animals came from, and much much more.

Pick up a free copy around town or check out the full story online. Here’s an excerpt:

Rob’s is an unintended sanctuary, resulting from several synchronistic events of which he claims to have been an unwitting participant. You see, Rob was a city boy in New Jersey, and had a career as an antique dealer with a piano restoration business on the side. Animals? He had two dogs. So where did all this start?

We look forward to a great year ahead. Happy 2012 to you all!

Vinchenzo the Peacock

New addition to the Sanctuary – an indigo blue Peacock. He was brought here by a neighbor who was feeding him cat food at the same time he fed his cat. It’s a good thing that he brought him when he did since peacocks can’t tolerate being outside in this cold winter mountain weather.