Cattle Rancher’s Wife Turns Vegan, Transforms Her Farm Into An Animal Sanctuary

Every married couple knows that for better or for worse doesn’t always come easily. The foundation for a successful marriage is often based on hard work and lots of compromises and the following story of one cattle ranching couple proves that sometimes that’s exactly what you need to get by.

Tommy Sonnen is a multi-generational cattle rancher from Angleton, Texas, whose world was turned upside down after he married Renee King more than six years ago. Renee moved in with Tommy on the Sonnen Ranch, a 96-acre area deep in the heart of The Lone Star State, and quickly broke her husband’s golden rule of not naming or befriending the farm animals.

As you can see in the story below from CBS’ On The Road with Steve Hartman, the newlyweds soon faced marital struggles when Renee couldn’t bare to see the animals rounded up for constant slaughter. “I couldn’t take the red trailer taking the babies off anymore – As a result I started watching documentaries and slaughterhouse videos and when I made the corner, I’ve never looked back. Forever Vegan!” Renee wrote online.

Just when Tommy was ready to sell the family business to try and save his marriage, Renee came up with an idea that seemed crazy at the time. She worked tirelessly to get the funds to pay her husband for all his cattle and turn the esteemed Sonnen Ranch into Rowdy Cowgirl Sanctuary.

“This experience has transformed our lives completely.  Spiritually, I will never be the same – my destiny and calling has found me.  At the end of my rope, when nothing but divorce and 30 slaughtered cows looked like the only way, a dream was born that was bigger than anything I could have ever dreamed up on my own.”

Now Rowdy Cowgirl is the only cattle farm turned sanctuary in the U.S., but we’re hoping others will soon follow their path.

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Cattle Rancher’s Wife Turns Vegan, Transforms Her Farm Into An Animal Sanctuary is an article from: LifeDaily