Daisy was rescued from a dairy farm with her brother & their friend. She lives in a field with her companions & can make a lot of noise !
She is very tame & will come to call - particularly if you are waving food about. It's great to see the three friends come running up the field together to see what treats I have brought for them.
Hank the Calf - min £5 per month
Hank was rescued from slaughter aged 1 week. He is very cute and really enjoys his twice daily bucket of milk replacer
Maddie the Lurcher
- min £3 per month
Maddie had several homes before she came to me. I was told that she had been too boisterous for her previous owners & you know what - I can believe it. She is a Lurcher and has a lot of Greyhound in her. She can run extremely fast & she particularly enjoys running along the hedge chasing cars which are fortunately on the other side.
Clare the Rabbit - min £2 per month
Clare's story is terrible. She had been bred to eat along with her brothers & sisters & when her owners decided it was time to go, the whole family had their necks wrung and they were put into a sack to sell to a man who was going to skin them & sell the meat.
When a few days later the man started his gory work he was stunned to find that one of the rabbits (Clare) was not quite dead. She had been put in the bag with the others having had her neck wrung but this had not quite killed her as it had the others. The man could not bring himself to actually kill her & so he took her to his local vet & left her. Fortunately for Clare the vet took pity on her & passed her on to a local rabbit rescue organisation who slowly nursed her back to health. I was able to take Clare into the sanctuary from the rabbit rescue centre.
Budgie the Cat - min £2 per month
Isis the Cat - min £2 per month
Big Bird - min £2 per month
Big Bird is looking forward to her 4th Christmas with me here at the sanctuary. Very few Turkeys can say that.
If you do decide that you want to help by sponsoring a rescued animal, please let me know (by e-mail link below) and I will send you a simple standing order to complete. (or you can print an on-line version by clicking here). The instructions are on the form.
Please remember that you do not have to sponsor an individual animal, it can be difficult to choose! you can sponsor "ALL" if you prefer !
If you use the on line form, please e mail me anyway to let me know who you have chosen to sponsor - I look forward to hearing from you.
Paying by Standing Order leaves you totally in control, you can cancel at any time simply by writing to your Bank.
A Standing Order of just £2 per month will make a real difference. I have no staff to pay or no admin fees, 100% of all donations go to the animals.
Thank you for caring
Fiona & the Gang
Dolly is an ex champion shire ! What tends to happen though is that when a horse is declared a champion mare, they are put into foal time & time again so that the offspring can be sold on for profit. Unfortunately Dolly paid the price for having a foal year after year and developed internal problems and also a problem with her hind legs.
When I came across her she was very underweight, and it took a considerable effort to get her back in shape. She is 26 years old now and it is a struggle to keep weight on her. It is not the quantity, it is a question of how much can be absorbed.
Babushka was one of the very few lucky New Forest Ponies rounded up at the annual "event" a few years ago. In order to "control" the population of new forest ponies many are rounded up each year and sold to the highest bidder - although a few sanctuaries try & save some of these beautiful animals, the vast majority - usually with their foals afoot are sold to "the meat man".
Most spend the last few hours of their lives on meat lorries & then ships where they are taken to France or Belgium to satisfy the desire for horse flesh.
Many of the animals are in very poor condition & although they are all "owned" by the farmers who "own" the land they roam on, the ties of ownership do not appear to extend to being responsible for feeding the animals where grazing is scarce - i.e. putting hay down in the winter.
Consequently many look half staved.
I cannot believe that there are not more humane ways of controlling the population, although it's a sure bet that this would involve spending money !! Babushka was saved along with about 20 other individuals & found her way to my sanctuary with her foal (Anastasia). She was terribly underweight & was riddled with intestinal worms. These have been treated & she is making excellent progress.
Budgie (the tabby) is one of the feral cats. He has been with me for about 4 years now but is not quite tame enough to stroke yet. Budgie came to me via the Celia Hammond Trust & he had been involved in a traffic accident and had to have an eye removed. Consequently it was proving difficult to re-home him.
He is really good friends with Smokey as you can see here ! They can always be found playing together
For months Isis was known as "store cat" because following his release he found his way into one of the outbuildings we call the "store" & took up residence refusing to come out except after dark. About 6 months later he did start to emerge as a friendly by still quite wary little cat, & when I had a good look at him, he has quite "pointed" features & I thought an Egyptian name might suit him.
He joins the other cats in the stable complex at mealtimes, but still gets a separate "tea" delivered just inside the cat flap to the store each evening before he retires!
Don't forget you can sponsor any of the rescued animals at the sanctuary, these are just few suggestions.
If you can't choose - you can even sponsor "everyone" !
Hank Singing
Clearly to give them more room so they wouldn't be so frustrated would probably mean that they wouldn't be able to rear so many
I rescued her from the hospital wing of a turkey farm before she had been slaughtered to be sold for someone's Christmas dinner. Because of the very cramped conditions these unfortunate creatures have to suffer, quite a few of the weaker individuals get picked on & can be pecked quite badly. These are sometimes taken to slightly less cramped conditions where they can recover - before being slaughtered. To avoid the pecking problem the usual solution is to burn their beaks off with a hot wire or knife.
