Our goats love to go roaming up the fields and this is a very natural life for them. We have to be constantly aware of all the possible dangers – goats aren’t the tough creatures that so many people envisage. They don’t like rain and can get pneumonia if they are wet and chilled […]
Mum gave birth in a nest deep between the straw bales, I’m fetching the kits out as often as I can so that they don’t go wild. There are five of them and they are tiny! Mum is jet black and scoots off when she sees me, I’ll have to tame her later. […]
This is a stray cat we’ve called Della – she’s made herself quite at home with us and has found a good place to have her kittens. We like our residents to have as much freedom as possible, so while we keep the pregnant ladies confined to quarters, they are not kept in pens […]
Jack Spratt is a disabled dog – but don’t let him hear you say that! He is such a brave little fella, always cheerful and ready to join in with whatever is happening. Sometimes he over does it, Spratt thinks he’s as big as a rottweiler and just as macho, so we have […]
Black Patterdale Border Terrier called Numel went missing on tues 24th may in Beckenham Place Park BR3. She is small with a wiry coat, friendly, microchipped and had a black collar with a silver dog bone tag with mobile number on it, aged 2-3 years. Susan & Gilly We so desperately want her back the […]
This is Twiggy, a little girl kitten who was born five weeks ago. She has two brothers but they were too busy exploring and wouldn’t pose for the camera. Twiggy is all tabby, just like one of her brothers, the other kit is tabby and white. All three are very pretty with […]
Dorcas is one of our beautiful sanctuary cats and she has three kittens who she is caring for with love and devotion. We’ve had several more cats with kittens brought in and one young lady has turned up on her own and had five kittens among the straw bales. They are really tiny […]
Your prayers and focused thoughts please for Star, a brave collie recently rescued from a terrible fate in the holiday isle of Malta. She was found only by chance, she had been shot and buried, her nose and legs were bound with wire and she was barely alive. A passerby saw her nose […]
Australia has just banned the export of livestock to Indonesia because of the extreme cruelty at the country’s abbattoirs. Animal righty’s campaigners have film of cattle being tortured before being killed by horriffic methods, they also show the terrible handling the animals endure before slaughter. While it seems that most people want to see the […]
If you’ve ever walked past a pig farm you will have noticed the smell and probably felt glad you don’t live anywhere near! Pigs have a reputation for being dirty creatures with a strong scent but nothing could be further from the truth. The pig is one of the cleanest animals to care […]