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...
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,...
