by Billie Dean | Sep 8, 2023 | From Billie's Desk
WILDLIFE AND BRUMBIES Contrary to popular propaganda, the native wildlife in the Snowy region would prefer to keep their big protectors, the wild equines, in their eco-system where they have been for 200 years. They see the fast dwindling numbers (now way less than...
by Billie Dean | Sep 7, 2023 | From Billie's Desk
by Billie Dean Introduction I am an award-winning filmmaker making films about wild horses for international film festivals. I’m a former journalist, and I write about animals and the non-human perspective. I run an animal sanctuary with my husband, where we have 80...
by Billie Dean | Apr 12, 2022 | Sanctuary Life
Billie and Presto, April 2022 Sooooo… early this morning, the stars took a dear friend. Our aged and health —challenged beloved ex racehorse, Presto. She was the last of her herd of race horses we took on in 1997. The end of an era. We had just moved in and...
by Billie Dean | Dec 11, 2021 | Sanctuary Life
Yesterday, we lost our beloved dog, Heyoka (that’s her in the picture above, and in the gallery at the bottom of this post). She’d been with us for 15 years, having come to us when she was only one year old, along with another dog, Sage (who survives...
by Billie Dean | Nov 18, 2021 | Sanctuary Life
18 November 2021 We lost Big Mama in these wild eclipse energy times. She was a beautiful black standardbred rescue from 2018. She came during the drought with her daughter and we spent months making sure she was in the best of health. She and her daughter Bindi ruled...