This must be the place
This is what annoys Amanda Seyfried, like really annoys her: when people buy animals that they can’t be bothered to take care of.
The actress sees it a lot, and as a lifelong animal lover who fostered her beloved dog Finn 11 years ago, she gets upset whenever she spies a Facebook post – and there are many of these “fucking Facebook things”, she fumes – like the one she saw advertising goats for sale. She gets miserable, thinking of these creatures without a home. And then she gets mad, ruminating on the kind of person who would buy a pet without also accepting the responsibility to care for it. “Why do you get goats if you have to get rid of them?” she demands. “I’m just really frustrated. I want to take them, but I’m at capacity with goats – because of the dynamics, you know?”
The thing is, the 35-year-old explains, animal dynamics are crucial. You have to get the balance of temperaments right, and with 23 animals currently living on her farm in the Catskills in upstate New York – along with her husband, fellow actor Thomas Sadoski and their two young children – there is presently no room at the inn. The inn she’s in right now: Seyfried is speaking to over Zoom from her barn, make-up free and hair scraped back from her face. She rattles off her menagerie, like a deranged Christmas carol – many calling chickens, five wilful goats, who like to put up a fight
