Xanadu Animal Sanctuary

30/08/2024

Lucille--yesterday and today.
Sent to Slaughter for veal.
Rescued and brought to Xanadu in 2018.
Living her best life.

29/08/2024

It's WishList Wednesday and now it's Diamond's turn! Diamond has been here a few months now. After spending her whole life in solitude. She has made friends and she is the best girl.
She could use a few things this month. We are completely out of the fly spray we use to keep the flies away from the cows and horses. She needs a new brush, dewormer and fly mask. AND Ripley just broke her feed bucket this week, so she could use a replacement of those so they don't have to take turns to eat. All the items she needs is on her own special Wishlist. If you would like to send something special to Diamond, her list is in the comments and she would be happy to send you a very special sloppy kiss! She gives the best ones (next to Diesel).

28/08/2024

Even hurting and running a slight fever, Diesel enjoyed his ride. He got a shot of antibiotics to help clear this up faster and some super dooper ear meds. I know an ear infection doesn’t sound like much but with any of these rescue babies, they are so immune compromised that a small infection can turn into a big infection really really fast so we don’t waste any time. The final bill was $122 so we’re still trying to raise the funds to cover the bill. If you can help with Diesel’s bill he sure appreciates it!

28/08/2024

Why do we have to be outside….

28/08/2024

28/08/2024

It’s $2Tuesday!! Rosita, Raven, Peanut and LuLu need a restock of their feed and mineral. $2 will feed one of them one meal. $18 buys one bag of feed for all. $22 buys a bag of mineral Let’s get these guys some fresh food!
Donate today:
➡️ Website— www.Xanadu-sanctuary.org
➡️ Venmo— -Sanctuary
⬇️ Donate at the button below
➡️ By mail at: PO Box 25
Ethridge, TN 38455
Xanadu Animal Sanctuary is a 501(c) Non-Profit Animal welfare organization & has been rescuing livestock and domestic animals since 2018, tax ID #83-0682348

26/08/2024

It's always Dog Day at Xanadu!
Happy National Dog Day from the Xanadu Four!

26/08/2024

Stella says Thank You! And sends a big ole sloppy kiss to all those who sent her gifts from her WishList. She really needed that new color and leash, and she is excited to share the treats with her friends. Even Mushka. 😁
A million thanks for supporting these amazing rescues and all they do for Xanadu.

26/08/2024

Good morning Woody~

24/08/2024

When you are trying to grab a bite of lunch, but the wave of guilt is overwhelming.

23/08/2024

The boys of Xanadu are sponsoring our $5 Friday! ♥️ As a Non-Profit, these precious little ones rely solely on your generosity. We couldn’t save them and care for them if it weren’t for you!
Visit us at
www.Xanadu-Sanctuary.org
Or hit the donate button below to contribute to Woody, Chevy and Speck’s adorable faces. 🐐 💗

22/08/2024

What a memory--the 4 cutest butts in Tennessee.

22/08/2024

If you don't know where we started....here is a little history.....it all began with these 2. When you begin in animal rescue, any rescuer will tell you--you don't know anything yet. You learn as you go. You have to let your heart lead you, you jump off that cliff and build your wings on the way down. At a slaughter auction, we saw hundreds of animals in need of rescue. We left broken hearted that we could only take 2. Bruno was the 1st to catch our eye--in a pen with other bulls bigger than him, he was so puny and sickly, runny nose, eye infection, scared out of his mind. He looked at me and that's all I remember. Lucille--in the pen next to his, a pen so full she could barely move, her entire face covered in p**p. Both of them starving and thirsty and sickly. We didn't know their breeds or genders or anything else. We just knew they had to come home with us.
And it took all our energy and resources and multiple vet visits to save their lives. Bruno, especially, suffered from a bad case of pneumonia, and every time he turned the corner, he would get sick again. It took 3 months and several rounds of antibiotics to get him well. Lucille faired better, but due to her compromised immune system, she still suffers from a common cold or mild pneumonia with each change in season and we have to really watch her.
Once they were well, their personalities came shining through. And they were so happy to have us and each other.
As many of you know, we lost Bruno 4 years later to congenital ortho issues that prevented him from being able to walk in his last days. Lucille, always his friend, still grieves for her beloved Bruno, as do I. She enjoys the others' company, but like many siblings or mates, you grieve harder for the one who knew you the longest and the best.
We have so much work to do at Xanadu, but on difficult days or when donations are so far down we can't move forward, or when the work becomes overwhelming, it helps to go back and remember where it all started and why. Many will argue whether animals are here on this earth for us to use for our own purposes or not. From my point of view, that doesn't even matter--there is ZERO cause for them to suffer illness and abuse and live lives never intended for animals to live. There is ZERO use for Factory farming and brutal containment. There is ZERO excuse for abuse and starvation of any living being. It's time it all stops. And until then, we will be here doing what we can--saving them all, one at a time. Til there are no more to save.

22/08/2024

A HUGE thank you for the donations this week. What an amazing surprise and the goats, sheep, cows, pig, horses and our volunteers will be so happy. Granola bars and Gatorade for everyone!

20/08/2024

I'm sorry, my friend.

I didn't know you. But I know you deserved so much more than you were given during your time on earth.

I know that you tried your hardest to please your humans. They said they loved you and called you a good girl, because you could run like the wind.

You made them smile and cheer and shout, they would throw their arms up in the air time and time again as you kept doing what they told you to do since the tender age of two, years before your body was ready. You kept running, you kept winning...
.. for them.

Your strength and your stamina and your talent won them more than $8 million in gambling money. After all that running you must have been so tired, and they said it was time for you to stop running, to slow down... to 'retire'. But there was no slowing down for you, your body was still 'worth' something... more, perhaps, than any race winnings. You were a broodmare now, and the race to the finish line was replaced with the relentless exhaustion of forced impregnation. You were kept almost constantly pregnant — nine births in only ten years. Nine beautiful foals that you grew inside you, you worked so hard to bring into the world. Nine of your babies, taken from you to supply the gambling machine. All of them now being raced, or used for breeding... or dead.

It was during your ninth pregnancy you developed mastitis — a condition affecting breastfeeding mums — which later became an extremely painful infection, laminitis. Shortly after you brought your ninth foal into the world, you were euthanised.

You must have been so, so tired.

Black Caviar you were so beautiful. You will always be so beautiful. And I hope the humans remember you the way you deserve to be remembered — as someone.

I'm sorry you had to join me in the stars to finally find the peace I'm sure you longed for. Two of your babies are up here too, they've been waiting for their mum to come home.

You are safe now, time to rest. 💙

20/08/2024

Happy National Radio Day!

20/08/2024

It’s $2Tuesday! We have 5 days to raise the funds needed for our hay delivery. $2 will feed our sweet girl Lucille here 1 meal of hay. Who wants to cover her breakfast?

19/08/2024

Speck, and his very red lips, say thank you so much for the extra watermelons! Everyone enjoyed them this weekend!

18/08/2024

Kenny Rogers Farming…. You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel.

18/08/2024

A huge thank you for the donated bean bags for Cooper. Mushka is helping herself too even though she prefers the floor next to an air vent. She didn’t want to be left out. A million thanks!