ADOPT AN ANIMAL

Come and meet our rescue animals. Your sponsorship is very important to us, we get no funding, and have no staff costs so all your money goes directly to animal care unlike other animal rescue organizations. Your support will enable us to fund that animal, with your name next to it on our website if you wish, or rescue another animal from the abbatoir - you tell us. And because we are a charity, if you are a higher rate tax payer, you will get 40% tax back on your donation.

We also have many chickens you can sponsor for only 5 pounds each.

SHEEP

We have two gorgous lambs, all of whom were abandoned by their mothers, and neither would have survived. When we got each of them, they were so young, their umblicical cords were still red. The irony is that they will last longer with us than if their mum had been able to take care of them. Male lambs are slaughtered at around five months old, and female sheep culled aged four, at the latest. Our sheep should live at least fifteen years. They have free run of the front acres and joyful characters.

	LAMU - a ram, who was found on the road having lost his mum
	RIA - who was also abandoned by her mum

CATS

Our cats are also rescue cats, and relatively independent, with their own access to outside. We took in one cat, as other orgzns, such as the Cats Protection League would have put him down - this is their policy for older cats who are difficult to rehome. Some of our cats are suitable for adopting out of the sanctuary, as unlike farm animals, it is considered acceptable to treat them well in our society. We enjoy the energy of our cats very much.

	Sorchia She presented herself to us in autumn 2005 and established a home under our living room sofa. Now she has had 4 kittens. We have found a new home for Sorchia
	Moriarty A homeless cat of 11 years given us by a friend who rehomes stray cats regularly. Moriarty is quiet and fits in with our other cats diplomatically. He sleeps a lot on the middle basket of our cat tree. He has a sweet nature. Adopt Moriarty - 400 pounds a year

Meet Mrs. Pig...

MRS - is the big sow and does what she wants but mainly because she has seen her previous piglets being taken away,and in case you're wondering ... we believe she does know they were eaten. Very stand-offish and doesn't trust humans - but can you really blame her? Wouldn't go in the pig house until March, as she had had bad experiences with enclosed spaces and her little ones being carted off in the past... she has now become much more trusting and lets herself be scratched. Her real name is Maelrubha, after the Irish saint, but as you can see Mrs has stuck.

And then her piglets, born outside in a place decided by Mrs herself (she is extremely determined) on the side of a hillside. She plucked up the daffodils and made a nest from them and lay down with only her ears sticking out from the golden heap, and then on the morn of April 23rd there was squeaking ... and here we have our procession of ...