Buttercup, the bovine character in the new children’s picture book, “This Farm is a Family,” is based on a real cow, a rescued Holstein-Angus mix. Buttercup lived on a farm in Pinckney, grazing in ...

Michigan resident Dan McKernan, founder of Barn Sanctuary, and star of the popular Animal Planet series Saved by the Barn is releasing a new children’s book, This Farm Is a Family. McKernan's book ...

Whether or not The Scotts are away, the cats will play. Animal Planet has renewed “Big Cat Tales” for a second season, TheWrap has learned. And we don’t even have to preach patience for this one — the ...

The Tiger King, he is not. Dan McKernan was making $100,000 at a tech job in Austin, Texas — until he gave it all up to move over 1,000 miles away and set up a sanctuary for farm animals in Michigan.

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It seemed an inevitability—though no less ridiculous now that it’s come to pass—that innocent animals would eventually get caught up as rubes in the ongoing carnival that is reality television.