Jacobs Ridge Animal Sanctuary

25/06/2025

GREAT NEWS! 🙌

Because of the support through our small lottery The Animal Sanctuary Lottery, we were able to support a fantastic UK charity Save a Stray with the neutering Programme of 20 stray cats.

Save a Stray are doing excellent work but they could use help. If you’re in the UK and looking to adopt or foster a cat or are local to them and want to lend a hand, get in touch!

Thank you to our players of The Animal Sanctuary Lottery. Together we are helping to make a difference and spread the support even further 💚

www.sanctuarylottery.com

22/06/2025

Thank you for all of the wonderful wishlist items recently received. There have been some amazing gifts! 🤗:

🐶Socks for Timo, parrot toy, balls, dental sticks- Kelly
🐶Smash potato ball, Veggie sticks, chews, mjam dog, mjam cat x2, wolfie smiles- Christine
🐶Chuck it ball, slinger pebble,earth rated fetch toys x2, timo socks, rugged bumper, squeaky ball, ultra squeaker small, nerf light up- Ella
🐶Chuck it balls x2 - anonymous
🐶Dog bowl, disinfectant, Nerf ball- Jayne
🐶Plaque off, pooch and mutt dental sticks, smart bones, washing up liquid, Dog Donut chews- anonymous
🗑️Trash picker- Mary
🐶 Dog chews- Samantha wells
🧲 Farrier tools- Hayley
🐈 60 liquid snacks- anonymous
🐴 5x horse fly masks, large smash potato ball, lily’s kitchen cats x 4 packs, cat climbing furniture protector, Tritec fly repellent large, Iams for Onyx, kattovit gastro pouches and recovery tins, almo nature- Christine
🐈‍⬛ Cat collars, cat scratch pads- Jayne

Our most urgent items on the list at the moment are:

🐶 Bye Bye Plaque powder for dogs
🐈 Mjam Mjam cat food
🐕 Mjam Mjam dog food for Eyebrows


💝 Donate now: https://amzn.eu/2AmNI4S
We really appreciate your support and couldn’t do it without you. Thank you all for the kind gifts, donations and encouragement ❤️

21/06/2025

What a wonderful past few weeks with incredible women 💪

Thank you so much Kelly and Sandra who joined us for 2 weeks and Zoë and Sarah who joined us for 1 week. You all worked exceptionally hard and made a great team! The animals are certainly missing you all (as are we!)

We wish you all the best and hope to meet again in the not so distant future 🐘

17/06/2025

“Open the damn bag!”

Reina, AMICAT's Guard on duty @ Jacobs Ridge Animal Sanctuary !
Everyone is warned! 😼
No snacks before meal time! ⏰

Mascot of the day. 😍

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16/06/2025

Smileee! ✨

Oliver and Dorothea showing of their fresh new look, ready to take on the summer temps. We have 36°C forecast tomorrow 🥵

14/06/2025

On Wednesday we had vet appointments for 3 of our animals:

🐶 Potato had his annual leishmaniasis test and it was negative!

🐶 Eyebrows had her vaccines and annual leishmaniasis analysis and her levels have improved meaning the disease is now in a low active state after her treatment last year. She also had a check up for her gingivitis and we have a treatment plan to try and help this.

🐈‍⬛ George Michael had a check up as he has gingivitis and has been struggling to maintain weight. The vet found some ulcers so we did a rapid test for FIV and FeLV, two of the common diseases which cause these types of oral issues. Thankfully he tested negative for both so he likely has calicivirus or herpesvirus (or both). He is on anti inflammatories and an oral analgesic and will have a check up next week. See at the end of those most for how you can help us with him.

After the vet visits, the dogs (Potato, Eyebrows, Sam and Django) had a great time cooling off in the river with the volunteers 💦

George Michael: as he struggles with his weight and with eating, we have added some different foods to the wish list for him to try, including recovery foods and liquid snacks to put his meds in. If anyone would like to donate something for him, it would be an immense help. We also urgently need food gastro food Mog. You can check out the wishlist link here: https://amzn.eu/2AmNI4S

Thank you and we will keep you updated 🙏🏻

13/06/2025

We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of our sweet friend, Olive, who we put to sleep today due to a tumor growing in her ear canal, causing discomfort, inappetence and myiasis (fly strike). Our vet deemed it inoperable and we made the kindest decision for this old girl who has already been through so much.

Olive has been with us for around 10 years. She lost her sister, Foxy, several years ago and then in 2022 underwent surgery for a mammary tumor which was successful. In 2023 she suffered a neurological problem due to a bacteria which attacked her central nervous system. She recovered but it left her with a head tilt which affected her balance at times.

We sadly lost Olive’s friend, NT, in March this year and Olive and Honey, whom she shared a run with, moved to our new Betty White run, allowing them more space and a quieter environment.

Throughout her recovery periods from her previous health problems, we interacted a lot more closely with Olive as we had to quarantine her, medicate her and at times hand feed her. Although she was still nervous, it’s during this time she learnt her name and would come running for her treats when we called her.

We want to thank all of the volunteers and our supporters whose help made it possible to give Olive a loving and safe home for the past 10 years and our vets for helping keep her healthy. Although today is a sad day, this is still a success.

Until we meet again sweet girl 🫒💕🐽🌈

12/06/2025

I see you 👀

Macario has recently started stalking our volunteers, waiting for opportune moment to steal a towel or a bikini, throw it over himself and run off with it 😆

11/06/2025

It’s Sunny Sunday’s rescueversary!

Check out the video to hear Sunny’s rescue story from the actual rescue on this day 8 years ago 🥰

10/06/2025

Thank you Bryony! 🙏🏻

Bryony left us on Sunday after a week’s volunteering with us. Thank you Bryony for your hard work and “can do” attitude! Letting your inner farm girl vibes get to work in the field and showing the love and attention to our furry residents. Come back soon (and thank you for the selfie stick and Macario says hi! 🤪) xx

10/06/2025

A Team ✨

Thanks Sandra, Sarah, Christiaan, Zoe and Kelly for your help. Mucking out massive! 💩💪