(InvestigateTV) — On a farm in rural Michigan, misfit has become a term of endearment, thanks to a woman who has cultivated a special way of caring for animals in need of a forever home.
Victoria Worthy has turned 28 acres just west of Lansing into a place that caters to displaced farm animals. There are goats, sheep and a horse named Timmy who shares a pen with a mini donkey named Lexi-Lou.
They all have one thing in common. They’re all misfits, and the Mitten Misfits Farm Sanctuary is their forever home.
Every animal that lives here has a different story. For Scarlet the pig, it’s a story of survival. She escaped from the back of a truck heading to the slaughterhouse.
“And the woman called and she said, ‘Vic, is there any way you can take her? This pig fought for her life,’” Worthy recalled.
The answer was yes, because Victoria Worthy has devoted her life to rescuing farm animals.
Worthy says once animals arrive at Mitten Misfits, they aren’t adopted out or used for food. She says her hunger for helping animals in need began in the late 1980s, fostering dogs.
“And somebody came and saw that we had barns and said, ‘Would you take two goats? I’m going through a divorce,’ and I said, ‘Why not?’ That’s how it started,” said Worthy.
Those two goats led to a menagerie of misfits, now nearly one hundred strong and multiplying daily.
