Lizzie's Barn Sanctuary

04/12/2025

I don’t like the dogs hanging around while I make their food up.

The WingCo aka Terrence found a way around this rule today, he climbed into the bowl cupboard, wet muddy feet & all, and sat like an angel until I’d finished.

02/12/2025

Yesterday was a sad day for the Sanctuary. We lost two of our oldies, Psycho Max (JRT) & Working Cocker Jet.

Age catches all in the end .
Sleep tight boys 💔life will never be the same, among our longest staying residents, & most difficult characters you leave a black hole so big I could disappear in it. 💔💔

30/11/2025

I managed to pick up a secondhand corner leather sofa set this week. I had lots of help loading it into the van, but I almost broke myself unloading it, and moving it single handed into one of the small dog bedrooms. But I did it , and it was so worth it to see Bica burrowed under her blanket. Somehow, I don’t know why, but she always looks more comfortable under a blanket on a sofa rather than in a dog bed.

The main lounge area has 3 sofa’s, and a variety of dog beds so is equally comfy, but it’s a very big room, & gets very cold when the outside temperature drops below about 6C, until all the work is complete it will be impossible to heat properly without heating half of France too. So they now have plenty of sofa space for night time & those very cold ‘stay in bed’ days, in their toasty bedroom quarters, which they tend to migrate into when the sun starts to go down, and at bed time.

Bica & Paddy shown here testing their new suite.

28/11/2025

No photos of the event I’m afraid, for obvious reasons, but today the dogs really demonstrated their absolute trust in me.
I was wielding a large axe and splitting logs, and they wondered over to support my efforts, not one of them was bothered by my aggressive swinging of the axe, nor felt any need to move out of the way, or even move to a respectful (to the axe) distance away.
Their close proximity did wonders with the accuracy of my swing, though I was too afraid to use the full force and only split a couple of logs today. Clearly I don’t have the same confidence in myself that they all do.
A very humbling experience.

Below is a picture of Bad boy Barti enjoying the fire, photo- bombed by my boy Remi

25/11/2025

Gail Sims mum passed away at midday today. Please join me in offering her, Michele Brodribb, Gail's family and close friends our sincere condolences. 😢😢😢😢
If anyone would like to send a card please pm me for her address. Thank you all xx 💔💔🙏🙏
Olga Milosevic

14/11/2025

The KGB ( Beluga) is so confident in her French disguise that she is grinning in her sleep.
Doesn’t she look comfortable

13/11/2025

Today Big Ted, aka One eyed W***y to a few of his friends, has today truly mastered the art of apple picking.
Hugo, Giorgio, Murphy, Paddy, & Breeze collect windfalls.
Trio selects a fruit, leaps & plucks it from the tree.
Frankie shakes a branch.
Remi waits for the fruit Frankie shakes from the tree.
And Big Ted, he beats the lot, he simply pulls a branch off the tree and takes it away.
No photos as I hadn’t got my phone with me, but here’s a couple of photos of the clever dick

09/11/2025

I’m not the WingCo’s favourite person today. I’ve oiled the gate, fitted the signs and added MESH so he can’t get through and get into the driveway. He liked to wander round to the other door, but this meant going into the driveway to the front gates. I’ve been concerned that a delivery driver could potentially leave the front gates open. Although he wouldn’t intend to go far, his sight & hearing are not good these days, so the potential for him to get himself lost or in trouble are too great.
Sorry WingCo

05/11/2025

Please help 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Thirty seven dogs are trapped in a Carmarthenshire dog sanctuary, after intense rain led to flooding.