Penny and Hugo find good homes
Well it looks like Spring is finally here.I heard a cuckoo for the first time yesterday and our swallows are back to nest in the barn. Isn’t it amazing how they make that huge journey from Africa to the same place here every year? If only I had the same sense of...
Another Loss
What a week! After losing our dear old Callie, we lost Freddie Kruger a few days later. This time we had quite a shock as he had not been ill and was, we thought ,a healthy horse. A bout of colic claimed his life suddenly and our Vet thinks he may have had tumours...
An Old Cat Arrives
We have just taken in an elderly ginger and white cat whose owner is in a hospice. Poor Lester has been in an empty house for nine months and in spite of a very good neighbour helping to care for him, he is clearly in need of more tlc. He appears to have developed a...
Come on, last chance to join us at Zipworld!
In an attempt to raise some funds for the shelter here, I organised a Zipwire event locally but I was disheartened to have no applications from people wanting to take part.This week, however, I reposted the appeal on Freshfields Facebook Page and I am delighted to...
Hello Again
I’m back! I have been on holiday to Costa Rica for two and a half weeks and I know there will be some people who will immediately want to know how I can afford it when the shelter is struggling for money.Of course I am not obliged to divulge my personal circumstances...
Last blog for a few weeks
Monday: We spend a lot of our time trying to match up animals to the right homes and sometimes we get it wrong but thankfully most of the time we get it right. We can also make the right choice but sometimes the personal circumstances change of the people we choose...
Our track and yard becomes impassable.
Some successful appeals have been made this week on the Freshfields Facebook page. One appeal for foster homes for two little dogs in urgent need of help did not actually find us foster homes,but it did result in a permanent home offered for middle aged Jack...
I wish the Telephone would stop ringing.
I am feeling totally overwhelmed by the daily requests I am receiving to take animals .Today I just want to sit and cry. Included in this mornings plea for help - A young pony whose selfish and irresponsible owner has simply moved out of the family home leaving mum...
New cats bring back memories.
Every day I look at the empty pens in the cattery and I wonder if we will ever be in a financial position to forge ahead with our new cattery plans. Some of the pens are out of use because they leak too badly for us to be able to use them for animal quarters and so...
Axel has a problem
Axel our Dartmoor pony has had an abscess in his foot for almost three weeks, the Vet has been out to him twice and has put him on antibiotics and the staff are doing all they can to alleviate the pony’s discomfort.He has his foot soaked in salt water, he has...