Thelma & Beauty – A Special Friendship Thelma and Beauty Taking care of animals has been the biggest joy of my life, and a return to my childhood growing up with farm animals as friends. People think that turkeys are not intelligent, but I can say from my experience raising them and living with …
Category Archives: Animal Friends
Francis & Hope
Francis & hope Hope – 1 week old Hope is my special little duckling that hatched with only one working limb – the bad one is stuck in the bent position and won’t move. I was never sure she would make it at first. She could barely reach the food or water because it was …
Allergies in My Dog… I Think NOT!
Sadie After the experience I had with Sadie, my sweet 5 year old black lab – I decided to share what I learned… not only for other humans, but for all of the doggies that will go through what she did. She was itchy, losing her hair, had red sores on her (hot spots)- she …
Motor & Mel
Motor and Mel This story is about two little ducklings I call “Motor and Mel.” They came from a foreclosure situation, and found their home with me, and my life has never been the same. They were the cutest little ducklings – but were frightened – needing some serious love and attention, and my home …
Hanna & Annie
Hanna & Annie This past week I experienced another amazing act of kindness by a sweet hand-raised, jump in your lap for love hen named Hanna. She’s been diligently sitting on eggs for the past 3 weeks, and that task paid off with a new little black baby chick recently hatched, I named Annie.They have …
Little Bitsy
Bitsy, 3 months Meet Bitsy, the little darlin’ I am blessed to share life with. She’s shy and quite aloof, but supposedly that is typical ‘ewe’ behavior. Or, perhaps it is the result of a life started in trauma. Bitsy’s mother died shortly after she gave birth due to starvation after being abandoned, along …
Those Trusting Critters
”Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.” ~Alfred A. Montapert When rescuing animals over the years, whether they are chickens, ducks, turkeys, peacocks, sheep, parrots, dogs, cats or others, I’ve had the most astounding realization that …
Francis & Albert
Francis and Albert I would have never realized how incredibly intelligent peacocks were, nor how loving or monogamous they are, had I not rescued this incredible pair of birds. Francis (named after St. Francis) is laying on five eggs, and Albert (named after Albert Einstein) is hovering – making mating calls, following the chickens around, …
FARM ANIMAL HAVEN SANCTUARY 