TIVERTON, R.I. — Felix has found a soft place to land.

The 25-year-old Arabian horse placidly munched on a pile of hay on a recent blustery Wednesday at the West Place Animal Sanctuary, occasionally pinning his ears at the resident goats clustered around him, trying to sneak a snack.

Gracie, a brown miniature horse, gazed longingly at Felix through the fence separating them, thrusting her nose through the opening and hoping for greeting from the handsome gray gelding.

“She is very enamored of Mr. Felix,” said Patrick Cole, the sanctuary’s director of development and communications and chief cheerleader.

Felix had arrived a few days previously, missing an eye and suffering from a form of cancer, with the warning that he didn’t get along well with other animals, having been kept separate from them at his former home.

“They told us he’d never be able to interact with other animals, he had never seen other farm animals,” said sanctuary founder Wendy Taylor. “He’s doing so well with everyone. It’s sweet to see how quickly he has made so many friends.”

For a horse who reportedly had never seen other farm animals, Felix seemed unfazed by the menagerie around him and in the nearby pastures. In addition to the goats, several alpacas wandered over, checking out the visitors. Just down the fence line an emu named Clover ambled by, sinking to her knees and bowing her head in bliss when Taylor stroked her back.

It’s almost as if the roughly 300 rescued farm animals at the sanctuary know they’re in a good place, that they’ve escaped from whatever difficult circumstances they’d started in. Felix lost his eye after an attack by another horse, said Cole, who said he thinks that’s the reason Felix was separated from all other animals and had minimal interaction with humans.

“When he came in, he was definitely disheveled and dirty,” Cole said. “We’ve been grooming him, which he’s starting to tolerate a little more. At first, he was like, ‘What are you doing?’”

Cole said the change in Felix was almost immediate after arriving at the sanctuary.

“He’s very happy to be here,” he said.

Before Felix came to West Place, Taylor said, “We got a video of him with his head down, dragging his feet,” looking miserable. “We got him a few days later, and I think he was here for two minutes … and he just really opened up. No more head down.”

The sanctuary will hold a Holiday Shop & Stroll Nov. 29-30 from 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. There will be tours of the sanctuary, a chance to meet Felix and the other residents, and the gift shop will be open. Online tickets are $26 for adults and $15 for children; tickets bought the day of are $28 for adults and $15 for children. All proceeds go toward the sanctuary.