by Billie Dean | Apr 28, 2020 | Sanctuary Life
This article tells of what happened to both our neighbours up the road, and to us, the day the fires hit on November 29, 2019 Â It wasn’t fun. Animals find sanctuary as owners tell of...
by Billie Dean | Apr 26, 2020 | Sanctuary Life
December 2019 to April 2020. Tamsin finally bought a tiny radio from Eddie the local gadget guy. The local radio was invaluable for keeping everyone in our district informed about the fires. From not bothering to listen to radio at all, we were suddenly glued to it,...
by Billie Dean | Apr 26, 2020 | Sanctuary Life
Sarah barged past me at the gate into the house yard, like she always did. She was a big sheep and often grumpy. We thought she had been grumpy ever since we weaned her into the back yard from the house. She never wanted to leave the house. She adored Tamsin and it...
by Billie Dean | Apr 26, 2020 | Sanctuary Life
The black cat stared us miserably from the paddock next to the hay shed where she had sought shelter. It was raining and cold in the middle of winter and my heart went out to her. She walked into the trap with food, but that’s when we saw the kitten. The kitten who...
by Billie Dean | Apr 8, 2020 | Sanctuary Life
Drought, fires, heatwaves, wild dust storms, flash flooding, pandemic and now the threat of 1080 poison from the Government bait drops into the fire grounds… it’s been several months of survival mode, doing everything we can to keep the animals of A Place...
