During Charlotte’s recent bout with mastitis, I saw more evidence of how the flock has changed since the death of Queenmere, the ubermom who used to watch over them all. She was one of the three sheep who were the first ovines on the sanctuary. Wonder was born to Charlotte not long after their arrival […]
The winter rains hit hard last night and when I went up to feed the animals this morning and ran my hand over them in greeting, Chloe’s and Charlotte’s wool was soaking wet, Wonder’s and Isabel’s only dampish, and Pegasus’s horsehair coat hardly even damp—indication of where they spent their time in the rain. So […]
I experienced a remarkable healing this week.
Charlotte’s condition worsened this past weekend, her udder swollen from the untreatable staph mastitis (teat blocked by scar tissue, so no way to clear the udder except surgically and she is too old for that) to the point that walking was painful for her. She stopped trying to […]
At 7:20 this morning, Isabel began calling for me, baaing loudly to let me know it was time for breakfast. If I’m not out there by 7:30, the sheep come down the path through the pasture area where they spend the night to the fence right next to the house and raise a chorus that […]
As I write this first entry of the Animal Messenger Sanctuary blog, I’m looking out my office window at the vultures circling the ravine in front of me and landing on their resting perch there. The sanctuary is high on a hill, so the vultures seen circling overhead from down in the valley are at […]