Lissa's Lil Haven Animal Sanctuary

04/04/2022

We are all so sad right now. Had to put Sarah's sweet pony Strawberry down tonight. She was a part of our family for over 10yrs. RIP sweet girl. 😭😭😭💔💔💔

12/26/2021

Lol Yep. Add in some bailing twine, a few horse treats, and a barb wire steeple and that's me too. Farmers got to have big pockets! 😀

Hahaha!! SO true and too good not to share!! 😂

12/25/2021

So cool.

To tell the age of any horse,
Inspect the lower jaw, of course.
Those six front teeth the tale will tell,
And every fear and doubt dispel.

Two middle nippers you behold
When the c**t is two weeks old.
Before eight weeks, two more will come,
At eight months, corners cut the gum.

The outside grooves will disappear
From middle two in just one year.
At two years old, the second pair
Will show these corners, too, are bare.

Again at two, the nippers drop,
At three, the second pair can't stop.
When four years old, the third pair goes,
At five, a full new set he shows.

The deep black spots will pass from view,
At six years, from the middle two.
The second pair at seven years;
At eight, the spot each corner clears.

From middle nippers, upper jaw,
At nine, the black spots will withdraw.
The second pair at ten are white;
Eleven finds the corners light.

As time goes on, all horsemen know
The oval teeth three-sided grow.
They longer get, project before,
'Til twenty, when we know no more.

***

Prof. O.R. Gleason
‘The Handbook of Horses’
c. 1890s.

***

This old news clipping, from the Toronto Star Weekly (1910-1973) was originally saved by my grandfather. He sent the yellowed scrap on to me when I was just a little girl... and it was among my earliest goals, to commit the poem to memory.

11/16/2021

Y'ALL, I'm so excited! UPDATE on the 11 kittens who were being abandoned. I've been holding on to faith that I would be able to find those little babies homes.
The night that I got them I was able to place 1 of them with an amazing couple who work with Lucky Paws in Greenville. It was sheer coincidence that they saw me at the QT as I was cleaning up their cage. I hadn't even made it home at that point. So that left 10 babies. Within a week I had found a home for 2 more with a sweet family in Liberty. So that left 8. This evening the lady who boards her rabbits at my farm met the litters of kittens. She's going to foster 2 of them & within a half an hour she had found homes for 2 more! We have 4 left!
Sometimes, things fall into place at just the right time!

11/08/2021

I was contacted day before. yesterday by a person who trapped 11 feral kittens around 5-6 weeks old. She was going to put them out on the side of the road in Clemson! I agreed to take all 11 because I couldn't stand by and let them die. They are safe at my farm now and judging by their behaviour I don't think they are feral. There are most likely 3 different litters looking at their sizes. They have now been cleaned up, wormed and started on antibiotics for an upper respiratory infection. If there is anyone who would like to take 1 as a foster I would be forever grateful. We specialize in special needs and elderly farm animals not kittens. Any help would be most appreciated. Please text Melissa at Lissa's Lil Haven at 864-484-3629

10/02/2021

It's bath time in the Duck Intensive Care Ward! and Yes that is my master bathtub. 🤷‍♀️❤️🦆🦆😜

10/02/2021

I LOVE MY COW BOY! lol Livingston is one of the coolest critters I've ever had!

09/22/2021

Cuteness overload! Cinnamon and Fireball.