18/04/2025
Can you please share and help our friends at Lucystrust ♥️
The lesser spotted Sionna!
Sionna is a bit like me, she likes the quiet life, prefers to be undisturbed and goes to ground if she is feeling any pressure whatsoever.
I guess you could say she is my spirit animal!
we have a rare handful of pictures of her, because I prefer to respect her then force myself into her world.
(She was out lying in the sun when I was in the hayshed with Babs, so I stuck the camera on zoom and grabbed a pic... she had already however felt the weight of my stare and returned it, whilst returning to her earth.)
Those of you who have come to know me over the years, know when the page is quiet, I am struggling with things at home.
That, like Sionna, I am feeling the pressure, so have gone to ground.
I am quite a private person, and when we are going "through it" here, being public makes me feel very uneasy.
However I have to raise my head above the parapet because we are just about out of funds completely :'(
I have to order dog food in a week and that will leave our account at a balance of zero.
I still have a large outstanding bill to pay with Glenburn, and still need ongoing meds for the dogs, never mind if any emergencies happen.
We need help, and I am sorry for being inactive on the page, my head is just no longer in the game of running a charity.
Long story short (and I will elaborate at later date,) we are facing losing Barbarella the mini shetland, We are into last ditch territory having spent thousands over the last year trying to get her right.
I have had to double her prascend dose, as she was uncontrolled unbeknownst to me as her acth numbers were always relatively good... ( PPID horse owners beware... dont trust the numbers :/ ) Increase Apaches dose of the same med, and start Cassie on the med too.
3 for 3 :/
They are expensive tablets and I am now using 7 of them a day, and that number is unlikely to ever go down, only up.
The horses are using up every bit of spare income Rob can make, between their low sugar haylage, feeds, supplements and 8-9 pounds a day in tableted medication. Not to mention the blood tests etc required to keep track.
I am on here begging for funds because quite frankly we can't afford to prop up the dog side of things anymore.
I don't like asking, and only ask a few times a year because for the most part, Rob does his best to fill in the blanks, but going forward this just isn't going to be doable anymore and I am frankly scared about the future of the sanctuary.
I do not have time to fundraise, I just don't.
On top of caring for the dogs I am into a constant round of soaking and preparing feeds for PPID and IR horses, 8 times a day... what little time I had left in the day has been gone for quite a few months.
This is the first I've had time to sit down and write a coherent post, and that's only because it's pouring and some of the dogs don't even want to go out!
I am not complaining about the workload... they need me and I will do whatever I can do to keep them right, that's my job and that's why I am on this earth, and I am incredibly lucky to have the unwavering support of an amazing partner who would go through hell or high water for them all too, and you guys.
Every one of you who has donated to us in the past, shared our posts, commented with encouragement, we would have sunk a long time ago if it were not for you.
The workload does mean getting funds in for the dog side of things is becoming more and more impossible.
Please help if you can.
I want to give these dogs warm safe beds, full bellies and medication when they need it for the rest of their days, and I made a promise to my horses to mind them to the best of my ability too. We can mind the horses, will you help us mind the dogs?
They deserve that.
http://www.justgiving.com/lucystrust
paypal.com/gb/fundraiser/charity/3575686
ps. I want to say a huge thank you to those amazing folk who ran facebook fundraisers or sent us wee donations, even though the page was completely silent. Thank you so very much ### your kindness has not gone unnoticed ###
Paws and People is a small non-funded and non-profit home-run animal rescue (registered charity)
