{"id":72761,"date":"2025-11-28T00:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T00:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/72761\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T00:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T00:44:10","slug":"photos-where-the-thanksgiving-turkeys-are-in-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/72761\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Where the Thanksgiving turkeys are in charge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Gentle Barn hosted what it billed as a pre-meal celebration of turkeys Thursday at the Santa Clarita animal sanctuary. Rescued gobblers and hens roamed while visitors to the six-acre spread were able to pet and feed them. <\/p>\n<p>The sanctuary, founded in 1999, hosts the event, known as \u201cA Gentle Thanksgiving,\u201d annually. The site currently hosts nearly 200 rescued animals. In addition to turkeys, residents include cows, horses, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens, llamas and emus. Supporters can sponsor the animals and visit them on Sundays when the barn is open to the public; tickets are $27.03 for those 13 and older and $16.22 for ages 2 to 12.<\/p>\n<p>(1) Romeo was rescued in 2018; (2) Kayla Garrison of Santa Clarita is among holiday visitors; (3) Maya Shecter and 6-year-old Danielle Shecter of Woodland Hills make friends with Justice.            <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Isabelle Churchill, 23, from Orange County pets and feeds a turkey \"   width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764290649_359_\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>           Isabelle Churchill, visiting from Orange County, hand feeds a resident.            <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Carolyn Sennet, 53, from Los Angeles pets &quot;Zephyr&quot; the chicken rescued in 2024.\"   width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764290650_757_\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>           Zephyr the chicken gets comfortable in the lap of L.A. visitor Carolyn Sennet.            <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Stefanie Wells, 35, from Anaheim pets and feeds turkeys\"   width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764290650_517_\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>           Stefanie Wells of Anaheim finds herself amid a rafter of turkeys at the Gentle Barn.            <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Turkeys walk around during &quot;A Gentle Thanksgiving&quot; at The Gentle Barn.\"   width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764290650_682_\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>           Rescued turkeys are among about 200 animals at the Santa Clarita facility. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gentle Barn hosted what it billed as a pre-meal celebration of turkeys Thursday at the Santa Clarita&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1592,10772,22590,42578,40240,42574,42577,42580,13569,48,52,51,42579,47,50,49,2824,42576,288,42575,41577],"class_list":["post-72761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-animal","tag-charge","tag-chicken","tag-cow","tag-emus","tag-gentle-barn","tag-goat","tag-gobbler","tag-horse","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-llama","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-photo","tag-pig","tag-resident","tag-sheep","tag-thanksgiving-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}