by Billie Dean | Mar 11, 2026 | From Billie's Desk
I had an experience a few weeks ago when my much beloved horse Silver died. And while I’ve been teaching sovereignty for decades, it really struck me what a privilege it is for a non-human to die on their own terms, Most are killed long before their bodies or souls...
by Billie Dean | Feb 21, 2025 | From Billie's Desk
This week is a sad one here at the sanctuary. Our beloved rescue dog Fenn passed away after twelve years as my close companion (Andrew sometimes joked we weren’t bonded, we were epoxied.) That’s Fenn in the pic above, and I wrote a tribute, which is below....
by Billie Dean | Sep 15, 2024 | From Billie's Desk
I was talking to someone who supported live export the other day. I told her that sheep are sweet, sensitive, intelligent, fun, and playful individuals, and it’s time we stop thinking of them as inanimate objects. Even the term “livestock” reeks of...
by Andrew Einspruch | Sep 11, 2023 | From Billie's Desk
Below is Andrew’s response to the proposal to allow aerial culling in the KNP. The proposal is here. You can respond in several ways: complete the online survey email to npws.submissions@environment.nsw.gov.au post to The Project Team, Kosciuszko National Park...
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...
by Andrew Einspruch | Aug 10, 2021 | Sanctuary Life
I can’t believe I’ll never see Zen again. I’ll never have to squeeze past him on the porch to get to the bathroom or look out the kitchen window to see him sheltering behind the wall of animal washing in our outside laundry. I worried he was cold, because he was frail...
