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The Retreat Animal Rescue Farm Sanctuary and Cafe

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The Retreat Animal Rescue Farm Sanctuary and Cafe

Home to around 1200 rescued animals, including farmed, domestic and wildlife, and with a vegan café
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Here is a 3 minute video that explains what we do at The Retreat Animal Rescue Farm Sanctuary and Cafe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3c0szZ7VYI

15/12/2024

Not quite three French hens 😂

14/12/2024

A little bit late in the year for this but I guess it’s been an unusual one so far 😱 🦆 ❤️

14/12/2024

Two ginger cats and? 🐈 🐈 ❤️💕💝🎅😻

13/12/2024

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
🎅 🦆 ❤️

12/12/2024

A great family business that supports our work. They never disappoint and are seven star tradesmen
🐷🐮🐓🐑🐶🐈‍⬛🦆💕

12/12/2024

How kind of Erin and Simon to send a hamper of our resident’s favourites treats
🤩 ❤️🐶🦆🐮 🐷 🐓 🐑
With gratitude
Team Retreat

11/12/2024

It’s a crazy kind of duck day today 🤩

Have a great day ❤️🦆🙏🏻

10/12/2024

This mornings fun at Donkey School
❤️❤️❤️

09/12/2024

Thank you for all the rabbits treats, enrichment and a dust pan brush 🙏🐰🐰🐰

09/12/2024

Growler our oldest pig will be an amazing 24 years old next year. What a complete honour to care for some of the most gentle creatures on planet earth. Watching him grow old with the love and respect all animals deserve is bittersweet. Not every farm animal gets to live a happy and fulfilled life.
Remember your “ food “ choices can have a negative or positive impact on farm animals.
It’s easy to be kind and keep animals off the menu. Go vegan and give all animals a chance to have what our boy Growler gets everyday, love-kindness-gentleness-peace-happiness-joy and most of all hope.

07/12/2024

We are running very low on big blankets for our dogs and as you can see angel loves nothing more than being snuggled into them !

If anyone has any big( and clean ) blankets they no longer need we would really appreciate them.

Please no duvets .

You can drop off anyday

Thank you 🙏

05/12/2024

We have a few rabbits that will be with us into the new year due to some health problems ( now on the mend ) like Jermaine here.

They need some new toys / enrichment if anyone would like to treat Jermaine and his friends 😍

We've added some bits on our wishlist

Thank you 🙏

https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/39US51EL9J7V5?ref_=wl_share&fbclid=IwY2xjawG-VWxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHcw7JF17QtihbEMHmFq3f0rk0aUXxwVJw_3sBnaA0UyYtGjzjt8-LAEYqQ_aem_alBj5AdmbaPZL-LRceIDEQ

04/12/2024

03/12/2024

Family of 5 looking for a new home.
1 neutered male and 4 girls .
We think 2 mums and 3 babies.
Babies are around 6 months old .

30/11/2024

Good morning world

Friendships are made at the retreat and never forgotten. Here’s Kate one of our great supporters spending time with our baby girl Rosa. Rosa was just five weeks old when she was saved. Her only crime being born a cow. Rosa is extra special to us because she’s got an extra toe on each foot.
Cows are very forgiving and make great companions.

29/11/2024

🔔 make a dream come true 🔔

you can sponsor a gift for one of our turkeys for Christmas and receive a certificate in the post.
Just look at Colin and Lin enjoying their best life at The Retreat. 🦃 ❤️ 🙏🏻💘🎉

27/11/2024

Many thanks to Nanny McPets dog grooming for giving a free pamper session for our Monty.

Excellent service and monty looks great !

Based in Ashford if anyone is interested ,their link is below
https://www.facebook.com/NMPGrooming

Monty is still looking for his forever home, hopefully before Christmas 🙏

Good with kids

Can live with a female dog with careful introductions or happy to be an only dog.

No Cats/small furries.

Needs an active home as he likes to be on the go 🏃

Message us if you are interested in giving him a loving forever home

Address

Brickyard Farm, Cripple Hill
Ashford
TN263LJ

Opening Hours

Thursday	12pm - 4pm
Friday	12pm - 4pm
Saturday	12pm - 4pm
Sunday	12pm - 4pm

Telephone

+447514114613

Website

http://www.retreatanimalrescue.org.uk/

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A little bit late in the year for this but I guess it’s been an unusual one so far 😱 🦆 ❤️

It’s a crazy kind of duck day today 🤩 Have a great day ❤️🦆🙏🏻

This mornings fun at Donkey School ❤️❤️❤️

Family of 5 looking for a new home. 1 neutered male and 4 girls . We think 2 mums and 3 babies. Babies are around 6 months old .

Our crazy baby, Spirit the wonder horse 🐴 having a bit of fun with dad 🐴❤️🙏🏻 #love #animalrescue #rescuedismyfavoritebreed #horseandfoal #horses

Huge thanks to everyone who has already donated and/or shared our 50k winter challenge 🙏 Here's a little message from our founder Billy and our pigs 💚 https://www.justgiving.com/page/retreat-50k-winter-challenge

Our amazing little Howie had his first physiotherapy session with our new friends at Snowy's Canine Therapy Centre yesterday. Howie has had a whole raft of health issues over the course of his short life so far, all stemming from the poor conditions he was born in on a farm - not only did he probably not get the vital colostrum he needed as a newborn, he also had joint ill and an infected eye before he came to us which we then had to have removed. On top of that, he's also struggled with pneumonia and a worm burden! All of this has taken its toll on our beautiful boy, making his body a bit weaker and legs a bit wobblier than his lamby friends. But he's a fighter and we will do everything in our power to help him. So when we reached out to Snowy's to see if there was anything they could offer to help, and they said they'd love to work with Howie, AND offer us a 50% discount, we absolutely had to take them up! Prince Howie was treated by 3 members of the Snowy's team, Lucy, Gemma and Sam, and they were all so kind, knowledgeable and keen to do everything they could to help him. As well as an initial assessment, they did laser therapy, massage, stretching, and movement exercises which have already had a massive impact on Howie's mobility. We look forward to working further with them to help him get stronger!

It seems to be only the ducks and geese enjoying this weather. The fields are under water, the water table is saturated and our lakes have never been so high. Please no more rain 🌧️ ☔️ it’s no longer a joke.

Princess and Rosa are warming up for today's fair where they'll be meeting lots of you at Kiss A Cow! For just £3 you can come hang out with them, give them a nice fuss, and if you're feeling particularly affectionate, give them a little kiss too. If you're really lucky Princess might even kiss you back! The fair is on 12-4pm today (Sunday) - free entry and parking as always 💚

SPECIAL HOME REQUIRED FOR A VERY SPECIAL CAT! This is Steve, a super friendly cat who came in to us as a stray a couple of months ago. He had no use of his front left leg, which our vets thought was likely a birth deformity to do with his ligaments. His leg was removed four weeks ago and he has made an amazing recovery, adapting perfectly to only having three legs. We’d love Steve to find his furever home now where he can shine and be the affectionate lovebug that he is. Steve is only young, between 3-5 years, and is neutered and microchipped and just starting his course of vaccinations now. Obviously it will need to be an indoor home, or one with a cat proofed garden or catio so that Steve is safe, so please don’t be offended if we don’t respond to people who can’t provide that. We also will not be responding to anyone questioning our vets’ decision to remove the leg. Please message us if you’d like to offer this wonderful lad a home. Home check and adoption fee apply

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Rescued animals in need of your support

The Retreat Animal Rescue Farm Sanctuary and Cafe, based in Kent (UK), is entirely voluntary and a not-for-profit animal rescue organisation aimed at rescuing and educating. All funds raised go to the welfare of the animals. Here is a 3 minute video that explains what we do and why we do it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3c0szZ7VYI