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Adopted! Beautiful Bella has a New Home.
UPDATE: Bella has been adopted! She will soon be moving to her new home at Calan Horse Sanctuary in Highbury. We’re sure she will be very happy there. Bella is a beautiful chestnut mare in need of some tender loving care. She is shy and timid at first, but will calm down once trust has been established. This lovely girl was sold to her owner six months ago as a riding horse. However, her age and behavior towards riding, illustrated that she needs to retire and enjoy a peaceful life…
Olive - Rainbow Bridge
Olive (sheep). Arrived 6 February 2013 A few months ago a cancerous growth on Olive’s nose ruptured. Despite efforts to treat the wound, the infection continued to worsen as her 13 year old body could no longer fight it. We tried our best to keep her as comfortable as possible,… but we could see her condition was affecting her quality of life – she was experiencing a lot of discomfort and starting to have trouble eating. With the guidance of our vet, we made the painful decision to end her…
Rehomed! 'Baby' the Pig
Baby has found a lovely new home at Gidgegannup. Location: Perth Western Australia Sweet Baby is a little pig in need of a new home. She was rescued by her current family from an unfit environment where she was not being cared for adequately. Although her family adore her, due to work commitments they are unable to give her the attention she needs & deserves. Baby has been raised alongside the family’s dog, and consequently seems to think she is a dog too as she runs around and barks just like her…
REHOMED! Little One & Pooz - two moos who need a home
UPDATE: We were unable to find the right home for these special girls. So Little One and Pooz have recently been given a new home at Possum Valley Animal Sanctuary, not too far from their original home. Where they will enjoy the rest of their days together. Little One and Pooz are two adorable old girls who have found themselves in a pickle. They were originally purchased and bred as pets to keep the grass down, and both have done a beautiful job of fulfilling their roles for their owner. Sadly, Mark is now…
Daphne
Daphne (sheep – Dorper). Arrived 30 August 2015 Daphne was rescued after giving birth to twin lambs who tragically, did not survive. One was taken by a fox or possibly a dog, and the other was found dead by her side. Daphne herself was bloated and unable to rise, so she was picked up and driven to vet, where she received treatment and was thankfully saved. We were fully prepared to pay for the vet, but when the owners were contacted to alert them to that fact that we had…
Gwyneth Poultry (Gwenny) - Rainbow Bridge
Gwenny (White Lace hen) . Arrived 4 June 2015 UPDATE: 7 June 2016. Gwenny was found suddenly very ‘flat’, not eating, tail down and inactive. She was taken to avian specialist who found very large, firm and impacted uterus – probably a tumour. Gwenny was humanely euthanised. The difficult thing about birds is that they will never show that they’re ill until right near the very end when they are too sick to hide it… just days earlier, she was running around and eating with the other chickens. We hope…
Gary Sweet
Gary Sweet (goat): arrived 9 November 2014 Gary was surrendered by a Perth Municipal pound after remaining “in custody” past the standard time – hew was at risk of euthanasia, so naturally we offered him a safe and loving, secure forever home here at Happy Hooves Farm Sanctuary. His history is unknown, but when he came to us as an entire buck, we wormed him and administered Vitamin B1 and B12 and vytrate. We noticed perforations along Gary’s pizzle and so took him to the vet for advice. Vet said…
Shaggy
Shaggy (Angora goat – male): Arrived 4 June 2014 Shaggy was surrendered by a Perth Municipal pound after being found abandoned in Woorooloo by rental runner and picked up by the shire. He remained unclaimed and a home was not able to be found for him. He was earmarked for “destruction” (off to the “meat man”), so naturally we offered him a safe and loving, secure forever home here at Happy Hooves Farm Sanctuary. Shaggy came to us as a castrated goat, age unknown (possibly old) and possibly Angora Goat.…
Arnie
Arnie (sheep – Dorper). Arrived 16 June 2015 As a tiny lamb, Arnie was saved from a fox attack by a worker at a shearing shed. She hand-reared him for 12 weeks but didn’t have the time to spend on him that she knew he needed and he spent all day alone with only a Rottweiler for companionship… everyone needs to spend time with their own kind, no matter how nice the other species are, so he was surrendered into our care at Happy Hooves Farm Sanctuary. Arnie and Baart…
Baart
Baart (sheep). Arrived 5 June 2015 Baart is a gorgeous brown and white Damara lamb with markings that remind us of Bambi. He found his way to Happy Hooves Farm Sanctuary after being reared from day one by a woman (who we’ll call “L”) whose neighbour’s sheep gave birth to twins and then rejected them both (normally due to ill heath or malnutrition, but we are unsure of the reason in this case). Baart’s sister was raised by the neighbour, whilst L reared Baart for the first eight weeks of…
Tonto
Tonto (ram lamb). Arrived 30 June 2015 Tonto is a Hampshire x Merino lamb who arrived at Happy Hooves Farm Sanctuary with Annie and Ella. He was three weeks old, and had been abandoned by his mum when very small – this breed of sheep are notoriously skittish and unfortunately mothers can easily be scared away from their lambs. A gorgeous couple drove him and the other two all the way from Lake King (480 km), to the sanctuary to make sure they had a safe and secure home to…
Ella
Ella (sheep). Arrived 30 June 2015 Ella is a Hampshire x Merino who arrived at Happy Hooves Farm Sanctuary with Tonto and Annie (also Hampshire x Merino). She was just three weeks old, and had been abandoned by her mum when very small – this breed of sheep are notoriously skittish and unfortunately mothers can easily be scared away from their lambs. A gorgeous couple drove her and the other two all the way from Lake King (480 km), to the sanctuary to make sure they had a safe and…
Peppa
Peppa (pig). 7 November 2014 Peppa’s story prior to be rescued by Homeless & Abandoned Animal Rescue Team (HAART), is largely unknown – where she escaped form or how she came to be in the bush on her own, we will never know. She was picked up by the ranger after being found on a property in the Toodyay area after being sighted for a week in the bush and caught “trespassing”. When found, she was terrified, starving and covered in lice and ticks. The people who founded HAART looked…
Mildred (Millie)
Mildred (pig). Arrived 12 June 2016 Mildred was seized by metropolitan shire Rangers , as she was being kept on a property in a shire that did not allow pigs, and a complaint was made by previous owner’s neighbours. The owners agreed to surrender her, and Rangers contacted another Perth Sanctuary, who put them onto us at Happy Hooves. After the required waiting period at the Shire pound with no one applying to take her on, we picked Millie up to bring her to her safe sanctuary. It must have…