Luna’s Animal Sanctuary

03/12/2023

Vivaldi and Othello always one next to the other.
Loving my dark knights

02/12/2023

The best grass team. So grateful for your help. Happy You are back.
Love you♥️.

29/11/2023

Fantastic grass day.
Thank you my dear friends
Love you

28/11/2023

Precious visit of these little ones.
She wanted to spend part of her birthday with her friends at Luna’s.
So much to see and to learn. Feeding the chickens, playing with Luna and Miss Sofie, bathing Vivaldi.
Thank you ♥️♥️♥️

26/11/2023

Just some priceless Othello faces

24/11/2023

Teamwork
Two doctors from the island Pet’s paradise who brought the portable Xray machine, working hand in hand with our fabulous equine vet Dr. Maria who came all the way from Tizimin to check my boys and other horses on our island.
So proud and grateful to have these professionals in our team.

23/11/2023

Incredible visit from Dr. Maria.
The most pro I've seen.
I am so grateful that she was introduced to me.
Now we know a bit more about my beloved Vivaldi’s hands.
Thank you thank you thank you♥️.

21/11/2023

Lulú 19 years old.
Chicks 1 day old.
Living in harmony

21/11/2023

The three important questions:
Who are you?
What are your intentions?
And
Why the horse?

Horses are sensitive and empathetic, they honestly reflect the energy and emotions of their counterparts. They are indifferent to physical and mental advantages or deficits. They don't judge or put labels. They always react directly and authentically to our inner attitude. Horses reflect to us “without embellishments”, how we are and if we are aware of it. They make us more sophisticated in non-verbal communication because they always react honestly and clearly when non-verbal behavior and communication do not match.

Coaching with horses gives you the opportunity to feel and regulate your emotions and energy and activate your self-healing powers. Horses allow you to reflect on yourself and grow. You learn to know your own limits and accept your strengths and weaknesses. Horses help you recognize and use the power of your inner images, bringing you much closer to your desires and visions.

In many cultures and traditions, horses are seen as spiritual beings. They represent strength, freedom and the connection with nature.

Horses offer you the wonderful opportunity to be authentic, grateful and absolutely honest with yourself. You find a deeper relationship with yourself and everything that is connected to you. You recognize what defines you, what you really want and also what stands in your way. Value yourself and find the path to your full and self-determined life.
Are you ready for our next workshop
Contact us here
Or
Mariana Muro

20/11/2023

Never a dull moment here😱
Luna thought it a good idea to squeeze her little self between chicken wire and wood fence. Had to cut the chicken wire to get her out there😀
Explained in comments under pics

20/11/2023

Hatched yesterday, today first day out with momma.
There is four of them.
Tiny little chicks.
Loving motherhood my whole life and seeing this makes my heart beat with so much joy

19/11/2023

Thank you my sweet, kind, dark knight, for your endless love and kindness.
For many many years to come♥️♥️♥️
Vivaldi 20 years young.

19/11/2023

Absolutely precious workshop
Yesterday at Luna’s. The first of hopefully many to come.
Coach Mariana Muro was guiding 3 beautiful women through a time of connection with themselves, with past and actual traumas, losses and fears. Through a time of connection with my most beloved and most kindest soul Vivaldi, he is an amazing master in transmitting love, peace and appreciation.
Lovely experience I will treasure for ever.
Thank you Mariana for finding us, for the patience towards me not opening up right away to your work and for the beautiful memory

18/11/2023

It’s today, today, today
And the masters are ready, expecting each pupil with loving open hearts
Only at Luna’s
♥️♥️♥️

12/11/2023

Thank you for helping even on a Sunday morning.
Louise🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

12/11/2023

Looking for someone with a truck or at least experienced to drive ours, to go, cut and deliver grass 2-3 times per week.

Busco a una persona con camioneta o por lo menos con experiencia de manejar una, para cortar y entregar zacate 2-3 veces por semana.

11/11/2023

Happiness
My dark knights
Thank you Mariana Muro for the pictures

10/11/2023

Sad truth and reason for us to give ours a loving for ever home.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗢𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲

My beginning months are rather stable
Nurtured and loved, my dam at my side
Through her, my comfort is able
But all too abruptly, things change
Torn from her side — alone for the first time
Weaning, they call it, must be arranged
At the age of 6 months,it’s time to grow up

I call and I call for her
Pace back and forth
But it’s no use, she never comes
So, I give in and let life take its course
Befriended by other foals,
Who like me are bewildered and scared
Taken from their moms by force

As I finally settle into my new life,
The memory of my dam fading into past
Life once again changed — all too fast
I’m grown up, they say, it’s time to start training
Once again my bonds are severed
Without goodbye, a recurring nightmare
My young life already so draining
And so find myself truly alone
For the very first time
Not a friend to be known

With a barrier between us, I see other horses
So close, but never near enough to touch
I yearn for closeness, a horse companion
To be an anxiety crutch
But, I’m too expensive they say, can’t risk injury
A nip or a bite — that would just be unsightly
For this spotless coat, the price is my misery
Buffed and cleaned like a shiny new vehicle
I am moved from small space to small space
Just a machine of flesh, trying to put on a brave face
My stall my garage, to keep me clean and safe
But really, it’s a prison of unfulfilled existence
And the start of my life’s stressful barrage

20 hours a day, within the same 4 walls
Is enough to make one crazy
Pacing back and forth, swaying to the music
Of my internal panic, the lack of fulfilment
An attempt to make my reality feel
A little more hazy and dampen the mental toll
Quirks to cope with a lifestyle that
Like a disease, eats away at my soul

From barn to barn I move
The expectations always different
Always having something to prove
I constantly break unspoken rules
The humans respond with anger
Thinking that I view them as fools
Walk on eggshells I try, but it’s never enough
I am often crossing boundaries
That I didn’t even know were there
They all expect different from me
But never have the time to teach with care

I am naughty, I am rude, I am rank
There is no shortage of bad labels
To describe how these people see me
My wins are seldom noticed
To the extent of my every mistake
They don’t understand
I’m not trying to be bad
I’m just trying to shout out my frustration
In a way they might understand

But try as I might, I am never heard
My life is a soundproof room
Where my needs are deferred
In preference of the goals and ambitions
Of humans —who love me in their own way
They don’t even realize how they’ve been
Led completely astray
Viewing stress as non-compliance,
As defiance
Instead of a plea to be listened to
An expression of pain,
Be it emotional or physical
But it’s all just in vain

Like a puppet, I must move
When my strings are pulled
For while some homes are patient,
In many, tolerance has been culled
And my lack of performance
Could be seen as a plot
A horse with a villainous attitude
Is never treated with gratitude
And so, the show must go on
Through stress and strain
I push on, willing myself to stay sane

Working through warning signs
My body telling me to stop
For if I go on, I may just drop
But saying no is not an option, you see
Because unruliness is only ever seen
As my attempt to disagree…
So I go and I go,
Until I simply cannot anymore
My body gives out —
No longer up for the chore

Unable to be ridden,
My value is lost
My patient personality, my willful attitude
Not enough to justify my cost
And so, I am discarded
“Free to good home”
To be someone else’s problem
My only hope to be given a pasture to roam

My years of faithful service
Not enough to earn me
A soft place to land, and live for eternity
My life is comprised of broken bonds
Of missed friendships, a lack of autonomy
Punishment for rules never spoken

Yet through it all I remained gentle and kind
My true nature only appreciated
Within a child’s mind
Perhaps in my brokenness
My value was finally seen
For a home did step forward
A family, looking for a safe horse
For their daughter — so keen

All she wanted was to braid ribbons in my hair
To feed me cookies, brush my soft coat
And treat me with the utmost care
This family offered me sanctuary —
A herd to live with, acres to roam
The unconditional love of a child
Finally, I was home

In my old age, my soul becomes freed
For I am to live in peace
Without expectation
Until Death comes to make me his steed

— Shelby Dennis // Milestone Equestrian

(Please do not take and repost without credit)

Also as a footnote — since I know people will inevitably sensitive about this — obviously this isn’t the life of every horse but it does happen enough that we should talk about how discardable horses can be viewed as.

04/11/2023

Thank you dear Louise for your very much appreciated help today
😘

04/11/2023

Anyone who would like to volunteer with todays grassing?
Panning on going around 4 pm
I can do it alone but it would be awesome to get some help today🙏🏼

03/11/2023

Para los que nos guiaron por la vida
Por los de cabello de algodón, por los que nadie ya haga caso!
Aquí si!
Noviembre 18, no te lo pierdas

03/11/2023

Stay tuned.
18 November 2023

02/11/2023

November 18 at Luna’s
Max 15 pax

31/10/2023

Christmas came early today at Luna’s
After many many weeks one of us cutting with a half working and small “Dori” and the other (me) cutting by hand with a tiny tool, today we were able to receive the new best friend someone like me can have.
Presenting the new grass cutter, let’s give him a name. “René” is still on a leave, “Dori” is maybe fixable for the future, I will call this one “Oscar”
Long life for Oscar please. We need him so much😂

23/10/2023

Looks like we did it. Sofie has never accepted anyone too close to her.
But it looks like Luna has won her over. 🎉🎉🎉
Very happy. That was the original plan to make Luna Sofie‘s room mate.
Well, it happened today. Bc it had to.

23/10/2023

Yesterday Luna and I had a pretty stressful, scary and suspenseful day.
The day before Luna managed to climb out of our property and was wandering the street right in front of our home. Bad enough but that is only the beginning.
When I acknowledged that our little Luna was missing, after going through all her favorite spots, combing the jungle around our place, driving up and down the street, calling her for about an hour, I knew she was gone.
I posted in facebook in local pages and on my private. I got some answers that a man had been seen picking her up right infront of our place and took her on his moped. The night came and I fell asleep. Woke up at 3 and had received a message that someone thought to know where she could be. I went to the place, found out his name, his reputation: Nothing nice! And talked to neighbors and friends close by. One person told me that he saw the man with our Luna, he was selling her to him early in the morning. But that person didn’t want to buy a goat and had not seen my post. So the man took off with our Luna and tried to sell her for hours. Meanwhile more and more people knew about our missing little one and he was approached by a friend who told him that he better brought that goat back where she belonged or he would get in big trouble. He had already sold her but somehow respected that threat and went back for her and brought her back to me.
This was done by 3 or 4 pm.
I feel very grateful for all the support I received and am so happy that she is back with us. They would have turned her into tacos de barbacoa.
She is back home, grounded now in a paddock with our donkey Sofie until we are able to put our fencing way higher and make sure that she cannot escape again.
There is evil out there😞

17/10/2023

Brotherhood.
Let them be horses.
Best thing I did for Vivaldi was to bring in a young stud to be his buddy, protégée, his student and everyday companion.
I love to watch them doing this❤️

17/10/2023

Blissful morning.

14/10/2023

So , momma Hen left the nest. I took 8
Little eggs in and hope that maybe I can help a few more to hatch like this 🙂

14/10/2023

3 new babies already hatched and 8 more eggs in the nest. Let’s see how many will make it. Welcome to Luna’s little ones. Next generationnof precious kikirikis. 🐓🐓🐓

14/10/2023

That’s how our dear Ricardo alias “el morro” ended up yesterday going with me for grass. It looks like an easy task but it is not. We would appreciate any person who has some healthy physical strength who would like to give us a hand once, twice, three times a week, for 2 hours max. It is hard work yes but it is also a wonderful way of challenging your heart, bones, muscles and tendons and we also have fun doing it.
Other people pay money to work out in gyms why not do it with us?
Please let me know if you are interested.
Thank you♥️
* Ricardo, no fue tu mejor momento ayer pero aprecio tanto tu empeño día tras día.
Btw I got his permission to make this post😉 he will be laughing when he reads this

12/10/2023

Give your goat your little finger and she will rip off your head!
OMG will there ever be an animal funnier but also more confident then a goat? I doubt that. Luna is my first goat and I love her dearly. So today I said : Ok little one you can come in with me and help me clean the Ramon mess we have here.
Btw that’s why she is so dirty, the Ramon tree which is a súper feed for goats, cattle, horses etc., but has a lot of tree sap, which sticks to you for a long time. Reason why little Luna looks dirty from snout to tail.
Anyways, I let her in and one tiny moment I am too busy to watch her and she does this.
When I got there you see what she is doing on our beautiful table. 😳😳😳
Never a dull moment with a goat

11/10/2023

Our beautiful Trio who shares so nicely.

04/10/2023

23/09/2023

Little Luna all grown up now.
But still getting her bottle 😀

23/09/2023

So important to let them be horses, give them the oportunity to interact.
Vivaldi (around 20 years) and Othello (15 months young) do this every morning right after I bring them to their paddock at 7 am.
Horses need to be with other horses.
The senior teaches the youngster and the youngster keeps the senior moving his feet.
These two could not get along better.

16/09/2023

Grass day with our dearest friend and volunteer
José, Thank you so much for your precious help today.

15/09/2023

Our little Luna, the funniest, cutest and definitely hungriest little goat. We adore her. Even that she finished my garden, my herbs and precious plants. Here she is playing with a new hole we are digging for a new post planning a bigger paddock.

10/09/2023

Sadly not the best video but anyways
Today at the “grass station” 😀

23/08/2023

Morning rutine.
This green iguana has been with us for a long time. Was attacked by a boa, but freed with the help of our kind friends the bomberos.
He goes every day from one big cedar tree, crosses the paddock and climbs up the noni tree, eats the „delicious“ noni fruit and after that goes back to the cedar.
His name is Rocky🙂