EATON COUNTY, Mich. (WILX) -The term “misfit” is used to describe someone or something that just doesn’t seem to fit in or belong.

On a farm in rural Eaton County, it’s actually 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, 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 this is their forever home: Mitten Misfits Farm Sanctuary.

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.

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