BRING THE BOYS HOME

We learned that 3 of the dairy calves that we rescued, reared, and adopted out to a forever home nearly 2 years ago, had been sent to the saleyards... in total breach of our adoption agreement. The 3 boys were sold for eventual slaughter. We tracked them down, and thank goodness they’re still alive. The man who bought them didn’t do anything wrong, he didn’t know they were under a no-kill contract. He’s agreed to sell them back to us. So we now have to come up with $3000 plus GST plus transport. We’ve agreed, as we can’t let these handraised pets go to the slaughterhouse.

IN ADDITION… before we knew that "our babies" had been sold, we had already committed to saving a different 3 steers in Christchurch. We heard that Til The Cows Come Home Sanctuary needed to drastically downsize their number of cows due to heartbreaking circumstances. We wanted to help, so made arrangements to have 3 of the pet steers moved to the SPCA, where we’ll board them for 1 month. There they’ll have individual focused care to fully recover and get strong enough to be transported to a new home. We’ve committed to raise the funds for their boarding, vet care, tests, medicine, special feed, hay, supplements, and eventual transport to their new home.