Sun and Sage Rescues

15/06/2025

This is Heidi.

This poor girl was found in the road, not far from the rescue house. It appears someone dumped her. She's in one hell of a state.

A severely broken femur, full on scabies, dehydration, half starved, anaemia, fungal disease, teeth rotting and some sort of bacterial disease.

How long she held on like this, I dont know. The break is an old one as the bone has calloused, leaving permanent leg damage. She was physically shaking and could not walk when found. Still, she tried with all her might to defend herself, fearing we were just more humans there to hurt her.

She is eight years old.

Heidi has made it past the first couple of days, which is a great sign. She's been shaved and had her first medicated wash. She's realised we won't hurt her, but is current in shut down mode.

Thanks to everyone who is a patron or has supported my vet bill; you are the only reason I was able to bring her in.

Heidi stands a chance now. But animals in the farming industry dont. They always get killed at the hands of humans. Please choose not to be one of those humans and live vegan.

11/06/2025

IT'S AN OFFICIAL FOSTER FAIL!

I cannot get over how happy I am to say Channie's foster has been a fail! As in, it's now adoption.

This is a huge relief as homes in Bali have been impossible to find lately. So much that I haven't found an adopter since September. That's all changed now that and her lovely family have taken Channie in.

I've begun to change my plan because what I've been doing hasn't been sustainable on any level - for the dogs themselves or for me. So I'd changed tact to 'Rescue, Treat, Release'.

Channie was dumped on the beach with cancer and I'd accepted that some help was better than no help, with my plan being to return her, whilst continuing to street feed and check up on her.

I know it wasn't an ideal solution, but with no homes for other dogs, I can't just keep adding and adding beyond my ability.

So it was such a relief when Priscilla said that she'd foster and then help to find an adopter.

But it turns out Channie fitted so well in that it only took a few days before that changed and it became an official foster fail.

Channie, may you have the life you always deserved with these lovely people.

Thank you everyone who helped with Channie's bills. It was a lot and without you she'd probably have passed away on the beach. But instead her life has completely changed.

Did you know, animals in the agriculture industry get cancer too? But unlike Channie they're never given full treatment or the ability to live a life that they deserve. It's just one of the many horrific things that happen to animals for pur food. Give it a google or an AI search and ask yourself if you're OK with supporting it.

Thanks to everyone who opens their mind to encompass all animals and chooses a vegan lifestyle.

06/06/2025

Remember Georgie, who was thrown in a bin outside the rescue house?

Back in January, someone threw a baby ginger kitten away at the rescue house (literally in the bin outside). Ayu had put her in the empty bird cage initially and I took her straight to the vet.

She was in pretty poor condition, dehydrated and scabby.

But she quickly got the all clear and although her initial adopted fell through, with the help of who introduced me to Georgie has been in foster for the last 5 months.

Now that she's 6 months, Georgie has just been sterilised. Believe it or not, 6 month olds have been known to get pregnant.

A girl, Georgie is a lovely affection little kitty. I had managed to find another home, but for the second time, that has now also fallen through with the adopter changing their mind.

So it's back to square on. Yelena can't foster Georgie much longer so I'm hopefuly Instagram and Facebook and work their magic and help her find an adopter.

Please get in touch if you are interested in being that human for Georgie and thank you!

24/05/2025

It's Violet's second birthday soon! Of course I'll be throwing her a party.

I've seen and heard a lot of arguments from people who want to eat animals, but I'll always bring the conversation back to this...

All we have to do is think 'did this action cause suffering to an animal and can I live without doing that to them?'
..then the answer becomes easy.

Please choose not to harm animals. They don't have to suffer for you.

18/05/2025

An update from Channie, the cancer (TVT) dog I took in a month ago after she'd been dumped on the beach.

She's had four chemotherapy sessions now. She's been vaccinated and sterilised too.

She still has the tumour but it's gone down significantly (see comparison in last two photos). So she'll stay at Sunset Vet for at least two more weeks.

I'm hoping to find Channie a home with someone in Bali to avoid having to take her back to the beach, so please do get in touch if you might want to be her human. Or please tell your friends.

I'm not happy about taking her back to the beach, but I must acknowledge I can't take every dog in and that this 'rescue, treat, return' tactic still gives these animals a miles better future.

With Channie, she'd have died, for certain, without treatment. It's easy to think 'go on, just take her in' but the reality is I have too many other dogs I've taken in that also don't have homes. It's not fair on anyone to just keep adding to that.

Channie will now go back healed, safe from disease transmission and no longer churning out babies. It's a massive win.

14/05/2025

18 months ago, I picked up Lola as a scabby puppy thrown away at the temple. I'd initially planned to street feed her, but after her sibling went missing, I took her in. Seeing her grow has been a pleasure - skin disease, broken leg and a failed adoption, but she's come through it all.

I've just made a little youtube video about her journey (see the latest upload). Up until now, Lola has still not found a home, so is one of the dogs at the rented Rescue House - I hope one day she'll find the home that she deserves.

I've been a bit worried to be honest, I don't know how I'll get her a home and I'm just hopeful the right person will come along.

Feel free to head to my YouTube to watch her video.

08/05/2025

I made a new video, this time featuring Lola. She's a bit of a scaredy dog these days, and it's been hard to find her a home. I hope you enjoy the video.

Poor Lola went through it all - dumped with a skin disease, blood parasites, then a broken leg too. Sadly it all left her a bit nervous and her adoption fell...

02/05/2025

A little update from Channie for those of you who may not have seen the disappearing stories.

Today, Channie is getting her third round of Chemo after she's been showing great progress from her first two sessions. Her tumour has shrunk significantly (I'll spare you the photos this time).

Two days ago, she was well enough to be sterilised and all went smoothly. Sterilisation is critical as it reduces sexual disease transmission, as well as the making of more unwanted babies. It also reduces interaction with other dogs who have skin issues too.

Channie is quite a mellow dog. Even at the vet she seems to not spend much time outside and goes straight back to sit and chill in her cage after doing her business. She's docile and submissive.

My great hope for her is that someone in Bali might offer her a home for when she's recovered.

The plan right now, however, is to take her back to the beach a healthier and happier dog, ensuring she gets street feeding and check ups.

It's not ideal of course. I wish so much for her and the other dogs I've rescued to have that perfect life with a home and someone who loves her.

Finding adopters has been so tough that ive had to change the plan. The last dog I got adopted was in September (remember Choclate?). So it's forced my hand really to operate a little differently.

So I've settled on the idea of trap, treat, release.

It's a bit like trap, neuter, release, but with the added extra that we fix up whatever their problem is.

I'm not going to lie, life on the street, temple, trash dump or beach is far from ideal. But with so many dogs, at least this process will give them a chance and they can go back healthy, vaccinated and sterilised.

Thank you so much to people who help me monthly and those who have given directly to the vet bill so that Channie didn't die slowly in pain, while spreading disease to other dogs.

29/04/2025

Sun's out, tounges out. Message me if you live in Bali and might want to adopt this sweet girl, Rhodesy.

27/04/2025

What a good pig!

Violet is having a nice time in her new home, the future (it's getting close now, I promise).

I dropped by with her favourite, a couple of watermelons, dragonfruit and coconut, which she of course accepted with gusto.

Violet is one of the lucky ones but most pigs will never even experience anything like this - fed (deforested) soy mulch to fatten them up before being killed so humans somewhere can enjoy their flesh in a sandwich or 'fry up'.

Please be kind and choose not to pay into their suffering for a fleeting bit of taste enjoyment.

25/02/2025

Episode 6 (not 7) is about Violet's big move out of the flooded garden and to the new future Farm Sanctuary space.

After realising that no amount of water pumping was going to save my rescue garden, I started the mission to get Violet moved, which proved to be quite the u...

19/02/2025

Bringing back YouTube 'episodes'. First up - the flooded garden conundrum.

After two years, I'm restarting YouTube episodes again. Let's see how it goes eh?This episode focuses on the start of 2025, which was met with huge flooding ...