Please, please, please consider donating to Daisy's food fund. These animals need you more than ever.
Wow, I can't remember any June/July that has been so hot and humid. It has been an all
day/evening affair keeping these animals cool.
Ive had to be in this mess with a hose spraying cold water on these pigs so they didn't overheat and die. Pigs do not sweat to keep their bodies cool like other animals so you have to help them at times to accomplish this. Anyway it's a nightmare for them and me.
I need to get food for the month. I've had 3 donations so far this month and we are In critical need. May, June and so far this month donations have been very low and I can pretty much say that I'm gonna fail one day here soon if that doesn't improve.
Sorry I haven't posted much this past month, it takes a lot of my time around here and when evening comes I'm just exhausted.
Hello
I've never taken a vacation since I've started this Sanctuary. The past 2 weeks or so is no different but in my mind I've been on a staycation. Everything has stayed the same but I let up on myself a little around here. I'm back now 😂. The coffers are empty and we've been forgotten with the exception of 2 donors in June. I will continue to do the best that I can until I can't anymore. Have a good evening.
My two boys, Boris and Otis. They are bonded now and sleep and hang out together. Hamlet was with them as the 3rd member of the trio but Boris likes to get on Hamlets nerves and makes him scream. He doesn't have to touch Hemlet just get close to him. Oh Lord the trials and tribulations of a pig Sanctuary.
My 2 boy Blue Jay's feasting on the hard catfood at 5:30 this mornin. They should know they are being watched by 4 sets of cat eyes. Just sayin
At 12:30 last night this big bruiser was on my step helping herself to the catfood. Now yesterday morning she had left her calling card for me to find. The odor all but made me sick anytime I left the house yesterday. Live and let live I say but please go live somewhere else omg 😂😂😂
Oh and my 2 blue Jay's also feasting on the catfood 5:30 this mornin.
Red Fox
I'm over run with them. There comes a time in your life that you can just kill them all for killing your chickens and pheasants or you can say, "they have a right to eat and take back food for their babies". I chose the latter a few years ago and just let them be. I have one that lives with the pigs now. He was in the compound the other night, ran thru a crack and straight to me hiding behind a tree by the house.
This pretty red one has a den in the side yard. I do love to watch them
All the rescues I see get plastic swimming pools for their pigs. I tried that a couple times and no one wanted to donate to the pools. Pigs need that water to cool off and the mud both for coolness and flies etc. Soooo, I do the only thing I can, I dig holes and fill them with water. Pigs love digging in the mud
What's going on at Daisys? Well just finished 4 straight days of cutting grass. I was a week behind and if you don't cut it every 2 weeks it becomes a problem in that it gets so tall it takes me twice as long to cut it. Worked on the broken spray rig yesterday afternoon and got it going by just taking it apart, cleaning and reassembling.
We need food here at the Sanctuary. I can do the work around here but I can't pay for a month's food by myself. So if you can help please do.
This is J.R. and she's a member of the remaining MD-34. She's eating some of the pig pellets certain pigs get everyday. The younger pigs get corn that costs half as much as the $18.00 a bag of pellets
Saw a fox yesterday morning about 5:30 am going through a 4" wide opening in the door. I still can't believe the fox squeezed through there but he did. I engaged him in conversation and he took off running calling me expletives and into the bowels of the barn. 😂he did. I carried my pistol back there in case he jumped me but I didn't go in the barn looking for him. I came face to face with several rabid fox and coons in the past and I wasn't taking any chances.
Yesterday morning my chickens created a hole under the wire of their run. A load were out and I went after them. I used a fish landing net and was able to capture all but 2. Caught one today which leaves 1 somewhere but I didn't see her today. The life and times of a farm manager.
Take care
Love comes in all forms....... I'm lucky, I found love twice this week
Thank you to Karen Alcorn, Colleen Shannon, Larissa Riley, The Eastern Shore Et.Al. Sewing Quilting Ladies & Lacy Janda, Nancy Jensen and lastly Maggie&Brian Quick for the sun sail and dinner for me, Kimber dog for a couple days since the frigerator was empty. The donors for April 2024. Oh the life of an animal caretaker.
With much ❤️ Thank you
