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"If we could live happy and healthy lives without harming others, why wouldn't we?" ❤️🐷🐑🐮🐥🐐

30/10/2026

It’s Halloween and here at Edgar’s Mission, it’s only treats for our residents!🎃❤️

Enjoy this video of the our bird friends multi-tasking by both snacking on their Halloween treat and pumpkin carving!!!!

30/10/2026

You Never Know Until You Try…

On this day in 2018, an elderly Merino ewe we came to know and love as Try arrived at Edgar’s Mission, battered, broken and barely clinging to life.

Already around eight years old, her best days, some might have said, were behind her.

But Try had other ideas.

She took her name from the simple yet extraordinary decision of someone who truly saw her. Someone who, despite believing the odds were hopeless, could not turn away from a sheep lying on the floor of a livestock truck, caked in excrement, crushed beneath the hooves of her companions and seemingly beyond saving.

Someone who decided to try.

And because they did, Try was given seven more beautiful years to know the gentle rhythm of sanctuary life, the comfort of fellow rescued sheep and the quiet wonder of growing old.

Something so few of her kind are ever afforded.

Yet so richly deserve.

And when, at around 15 years of age, she finally slipped peacefully from this world, it was not because her life had ceased to be useful, but because her long and remarkable life had simply run its course.

Today, we remember not only the sheep who survived against the odds, but the beautiful old soul whose very name became a lesson in compassion.

For the greatest tragedy is not always that we try and fail, but that a life might be lost because we never tried at all.

“If we could live happy and healthy lives without harming others, why wouldn’t we?”

29/10/2026

Get to know PONIES!!!

We do love our cheeky ponies here at sanctuary and we want to tell you more about them!

Learning about animals is an important step in knowing how to take care of them and show them kindness and respect, to how they perceive it. It is also a important to know, as it teaches us how to show them kindness when visiting Edgar's Mission:)

How cool that ponies can carry so much weight compared to their size?

Which fact about ponies did find interesting from this post? We'd love to hear it!

"If we could live happy and healthy lives without harming others, why wouldn't we?"

29/10/2026

When Cute Is No Longer Enough
Meet Nutella

To most people, Nutella is a nutty chocolate spread, though to us here at sanctuary, she is a nut-coloured little goat who delights in spreading something far sweeter. Joy.

A pint-sized pocket-rocket of a Rangeland kid weighing just over two kilograms, Nutella has already mastered the art of squeezing into the narrowest of spaces, often leaving us scratching our heads as to just how she Houdinied her way out!

Although, for Nutella and Marmalade, few pleasures rival taking turns snoozing atop their favourite teddy bear, who is oversized in every sense of the word! One could be forgiven for thinking this now-raggedy teddy bear is simply a reflection of their even bigger personalities!

Yet for all the joy this little goat now brings, the circumstances that brought her into our care are far less cheerful. Found wandering streets where no baby goat should ever be, Nutella has left us wondering just how she came to be there, and what became of her dear mumma. And while we may never know their story, some of the possibilities are deeply troubling.

But therein lies a question worth asking.

Why is it that we humans so readily fall for the charms of the small, the fluffy and the irresistibly cute, yet so often withdraw our affection when those same animals grow into the adults they were always destined to become?

And what does that say about us, if the kindness we offer is shaped more by what an animal gives us than by what they themselves need?

For Nutella will grow; her tiny hooves will become larger, her mischievous escapades more ambitious and her babyish charms will give way to the dignity of adulthood. Yet the little someone who so effortlessly captured our hearts will remain every bit as worthy of love.

Perhaps the true measure of our compassion is not how readily we love an animal when they delight us, but whether we still see someone worth loving when their youthful charms have given way to the grandeur and beauty of age.

For the problem was never that they grew up.

It was that our kindness so often fails to grow with them.

"If we could live happy and healthy lives without harming others, why wouldn't we?"

29/10/2026

Who’s your star sign buddy?

Read more about their unique characteristics and story via ‘Meet the animals’ on our website!

Or better yet, come visit us by booking a tour to meet them in person! Witness those dear personalities for your hearts.

Does you see yourself in your star sign buddy? They’re more similar to us that you think!

“If we could live happy and healthy lives without harming others, why wouldn’t we?”

28/10/2026

Journey: Following the Yellow Brick Road

An update on our brave little traveller.

With no reason to trust us, somehow dear Journey does.

And while her road to sanctuary was rocky, it was paved with kindness. Perhaps it was her very own Yellow Brick Road, for like Dorothy, she has discovered she need not travel it alone.

The good news is Journey survived surgery to remove her necrotic ear, although the damage had already extended into the side of her face. Recovery was frighteningly difficult, with our carers keeping vigil through a long night as her consciousness faded in and out and her breathing became worryingly rattly.

But our little traveller has cleared that hurdle.

Our fundraiser for her is still ongoing. Check out our last post of Journey to find where you can support her.
Tomorrow brings another, as specialist surgeons will attempt to repair her badly fractured front leg and reassess the damage around her ear.

Yet beyond these injuries is someone we are only beginning to know.

A gentle soul with a fondness for lucerne hay and Weet-Bix, Journey has developed the most endearing fascination with our faces, exploring them as though they hold the secrets of the universe. We trust she likes what she finds!

And despite her unfamiliarity with human kindness, she accepts our company with remarkable trust, her beloved teddy bear never far away.

For healing is about more than mending broken bodies; it is about safety, trust and the time to discover that the world can be kind.

And whatever lies at the end of Journey's Yellow Brick Road, she will never have to walk it alone.

Stay tuned—We shall keep you updated as Journey's story unfolds, and thank you, from the bottom of our hearts, for holding this precious little traveller in yours.

"If we could live happy and healthy lives without harming others, why wouldn't we?"

27/10/2026

Still. 🐾 ❤️

Some souls leave this world, yet somehow never leave the places or hearts they have touched.

Take our dear Ruby.

Though her soft brown paws no longer pad the pathways of sanctuary, her beautiful face still greets those who wander them.

And while her story still speaks to hearts she will never meet, her legacy lives on in the kindness that continues to unfold here.

And then there is Cornelius.

Resplendent in his snow-white feathers, our rather magnificent turkey struts past Ruby's portrait, seemingly unaware that he is sharing the moment with someone whose presence is far greater than spray paint upon a wall.

Or perhaps he knows something we humans are still learning.
That love does not disappear when a life ends. It simply finds new ways to make itself known.

And to be felt.

In the familiar places, the stories we tell, the lives we save and the kindness we choose to give.

For Ruby was never just a dog who got lucky and lived at Edgar's Mission. She was someone who helped shape what this place would become.

And while we can no longer reach out and touch her, we need only look around to see that she is still touching us.

Gone from our sight. Never from our story.

Still. ❤️

"Be kind. Be kind like Ruby."

26/10/2026

Our mission of kindness in giving animals lives truly worth living is a mission that will stay with us until we reach our goal.

Even with the help of our incredible volunteers and supporting community, we are just one sanctuary and currently home to between 350 and 450 formerly farmed animals at any given time.

We know there are many hardworking farmed animal sanctuaries across the world that create such kind futures for animals and together we are working towards a normality of respect of sentient life.

Over the past 23 years and thousands of rescued animals later, we have come to accept that in order to remain viable, we sadly cannot provide every needy soul with a forever home as it would diminish our ability to advocate on behalf of farmed animals everywhere.

Are you prepared to open your heart and home to a farmed animal? Our adoption program seeks to match the right animals with loving forever homes.

So we also have a page dedicated to helping the community with rehoming animals when we are at capacity.

Call us at 0370464776 so we can work together in the rehoming process.

"If we could live happy and healthy lives without harming others, why wouldn't we?"

25/10/2026

Why is it that so much of what we not only do, but what we say, think and even eat is based not on our own values or beliefs but rather those we have inherited from others? Granted, much of this is due to our reliance as youngsters on our parents and caregivers, but the advancing of our years and the severing of our dependence all too rarely sees popular thought confronted with individual ethical values.

Many ‘pings’ of conscience are sadly often placated by thought of, ‘Well, everyone else is doing it.’

It was the noted author and futurist Alvin Toffler, who stated; ‘The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn’ and to which I would like to add, ‘To heed what’s in their heart and decide to do something.’

It rests entirely in the moment of our choice. It rests in human hands and the hearts of those who refuse to look away.

That is where our true power resides.

Change does not come from waiting for the right time, the right conditions or even the right person. It comes from someone choosing to act

Because every moment of action interrupts the spread of something that would otherwise grow. And every moment of inaction allows it.

So perhaps the question is not whether we are capable.

But whether we are willing.

“If not you, then who? If not now, when?”

"If we could live happy and healthy lives without harming others, why wouldn't we?"

23/10/2026

Did you know we have accommodation onsite of the sanctuary?

Your stay at one of our three tiny houses, includes a guided tour and the unique opportunity to wake up to breathtaking views of the sanctuary, surrounded by rescued animals who serve as constant reminders of the power of kindness.

Enjoy the ultimate eco-friendly country getaway; a sanctuary retreat!
Overlooking the rolling hills and rescued animals of Edgar’s Mission, you’ll enjoy an immersive and environmentally-friendly experience you will never forget.

Check our availability for the rest of 2026 and book now via the link in the comments section!

"If we could live happy and healthy lives without harming others, why wouldn't we?"

Address

81 Bridies Lane
Lancefield, VIC
3435

Telephone

+61408397301

Website

http://www.edgarsmission.org.au/

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