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All the animals really enjoyed their special treats that they received today for Christmas. The goats and sheep loved the popcorn, the pigs were very excited about their pumpkins and apples, the cows and horses received apples and carrots, and the chickens and turkeys got extra corn and sunflower seeds. It was a wonderful, unusually warm Winter day - thanks to all the awesome volunteers and staff who came to help out. A good time was had by all!🙂🎄❤️
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate, and Happy Holidays to all of our wonderful friends and supporters! We hope everyone has a peaceful and compassionate day! With love from all of us at Poplar Spring! A big thanks to Mark Peters for this lovely photo! 💕🐐🐑🐓🦃🐄🐖🎄🎁
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate, and Happy Holidays to all of our wonderful friends and supporters! We hope everyone has a peaceful and compassionate day! With love from all of us at Poplar Spring! A big thanks to Mark Peters for this lovely photo! 💕🐐🐑🐓🦃🐄🐖🎄🎁
Dudley is finally home after two weeks in the hospital!! He is now back at the sanctuary where he will stay in a stall for a few more days resting and healing from his bladder stone surgery. Soon he will be back to his old antics, frolicking and getting into trouble, haha! A big thanks to the awesome vets and staff at New Bolton center for saving his life and getting him healthy enough to be home for Christmas!🎄🐐❤️🎁
Dudley is finally home after two weeks in the hospital!! He is now back at the sanctuary where he will stay in a stall for a few more days resting and healing from his bladder stone surgery. Soon he will be back to his old antics, frolicking and getting into trouble, haha! A big thanks to the awesome vets and staff at New Bolton center for saving his life and getting him healthy enough to be home for Christmas!🎄🐐❤️🎁
Mabel and Richard were enjoying the unusually warm December day yesterday, and were snuggled together, soaking up the sun.❤️🐖🌞
Mabel and Richard were enjoying the unusually warm December day yesterday, and were snuggled together, soaking up the sun.❤️🐖🌞
Julianna seems to be completely recovered from her spay surgery a couple of weeks ago. She really wanted to play with the alpacas, but Griffin and Spencer were definitely not interested. 😂 We are slowly introducing her to the big pig group this week, so hopefully she will find more enthusiastic playmates there!
Randall is the sweetest turkey, who absolutely loves nothing more than to be close to people. Today he waited patiently outside the infirmary until we invited him in to join our Thursday afternoon staff meeting. He was so happy to be included, and just puffed up and strutted around the room, getting lots of pets and hugs.❤️🦃
Randall is the sweetest turkey, who absolutely loves nothing more than to be close to people. Today he waited patiently outside the infirmary until we invited him in to join our Thursday afternoon staff meeting. He was so happy to be included, and just puffed up and strutted around the room, getting lots of pets and hugs.❤️🦃
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There is still time to get that perfect holiday gift for friends and family (or yourself!). Today and tomorrow, December 9 and 10, all Poplar Spring 2022 calendars are 10% off - use code JOLLY10. These beautiful full colored calendars by awesome Poplar volunteer Deb Durant showcase a different animal each month, with the story of how they came to the sanctuary. Get yours at a discount today- All proceeds benefit the rescued animals!
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There is still time to get that perfect holiday gift for friends and family (or yourself!). Today and tomorrow, December 9 and 10, all Poplar Spring 2022 calendars are 10% off - use code JOLLY10. These beautiful full colored calendars by awesome Poplar volunteer Deb Durant showcase a different animal each month, with the story of how they came to the sanctuary. Get yours at a discount today- All proceeds benefit the rescued animals!
Please keep our sweet boy Dudley in your thoughts- we had to rush him to the vet on Monday where he had to undergo emergency surgery for bladder stones, which were lodged in his urethra and blocking him from peeing. Thanks to the amazing vets at @newboltoncenter he is now recovering and eating well. After he heals for a couple of weeks he will be able to come home, hopefully before Christmas. We can’t wait to have him back, being his silly self and running and chasing anyone carrying a tote bag again. We love you, Dudley, get well soon!❤️🐐
Please keep our sweet boy Dudley in your thoughts- we had to rush him to the vet on Monday where he had to undergo emergency surgery for bladder stones, which were lodged in his urethra and blocking him from peeing. Thanks to the amazing vets at @newboltoncenter he is now recovering and eating well. After he heals for a couple of weeks he will be able to come home, hopefully before Christmas. We can’t wait to have him back, being his silly self and running and chasing anyone carrying a tote bag again. We love you, Dudley, get well soon!❤️🐐
Dudley, Yeti, Sally and Evie, our sweet goats who all have special needs, are hoping you will help today by giving a donation to help with their feed and care, and to help all the more than 250 rescued animals who have a permanent home at Poplar Spring. It has been another challenging year where we were unable to hold any of our annual fundraisers, so we would so appreciate a gift of any amount to help with hay, feed and vet care for the animals. Facebook is matching donations today for
#GivingTuesday2021 so it is a great time to donate- just click on the donate button below or on our website at http://www.animalsanctuary.org/donate/ Thank you so much for all of your support!!❤️🐖🐐🐄🦃🐓🐏
Dudley, Yeti, Sally and Evie, our sweet goats who all have special needs, are hoping you will help today by giving a donation to help with their feed and care, and to help all the more than 250 rescued animals who have a permanent home at Poplar Spring. It has been another challenging year where we were unable to hold any of our annual fundraisers, so we would so appreciate a gift of any amount to help with hay, feed and vet care for the animals. Facebook is matching donations today for
#GivingTuesday2021 so it is a great time to donate- just click on the donate button below or on our website at http://www.animalsanctuary.org/donate/ Thank you so much for all of your support!!❤️🐖🐐🐄🦃🐓🐏
Little Julianna is enjoying her new life at Poplar Spring so much! After being cramped in a tiny chicken coop with no protection from the rain, and being neglected and starved, she is now living her best life- running in the fields, rooting in the grass and hay piles, and joyfully playing with every box, bag and toy she can find. We love her so much already!💕🐖
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Poplar Spring’s beautiful 2022 calendars are now available to purchase! These make great gifts for friends and family and are a wonderful way to help the animals. All proceeds go directly towards feed and care for our more than 250 rescued residents. A big thanks to Poplar volunteer Deb Durant for creating these gorgeous calendars every year!
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Poplar Spring’s beautiful 2022 calendars are now available to purchase! These make great gifts for friends and family and are a wonderful way to help the animals. All proceeds go directly towards feed and care for our more than 250 rescued residents. A big thanks to Poplar volunteer Deb Durant for creating these gorgeous calendars every year!
We have a new piggy! 💕Julianna is a very sweet 3 month old Yorkshire pig, who was being kept in a chicken coop with no shelter or food. Her previous owner denied responsibility for her, as she had been purchased by her daughter with the intention of butchering her. When the daughter moved away the mother refused to feed or care for Julianna in any way, and she was starving. Thankfully a kind neighbor rescued her from this terrible situation and called Poplar Spring. Julianna is very thin and has an upper respiratory infection but she is still very energetic and playful. She loves to run in the goat pasture and play with empty bags, and she especially enjoys getting belly rubs. When she has recovered from her cold and is totally healthy we will introduce her to Trevor, our recently rescued piglet. We hope the two of them will be friends as they grow up together. We are so happy that we can give Julianna a wonderful life where she will always be loved and cared for. 💕🐖 The last photo shows the chicken coop Julianna was forced to live in before she came to Poplar.😢
It’s not just the pigs who like pumpkins, the goats love them too! Nate couldn’t wait for them to be unloaded, so he jumped up in the truck and was “helping” us. 😂Zachary decided he would head butt the pumpkins to get them open.🙂Thanks to @butlersorchard and to all the individuals who have donated pumpkins for the animals this year!💕🎃🐐🐖
TBT our Thanksgiving event from a few years ago. We are very sorry that we have had to cancel this years event, but we hope that in 2022 things can finally get back to normal and we can hold our large events again. Wishing everyone a happy and compassionate holiday!🦃💕
You never know when a giant cow is going to show up at your morning staff meeting at Poplar Spring.😂Moses is the sweetest boy! 🙂❤️🐄
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Randall, April and Chauncey the turkeys enjoying peacefully grazing on a beautiful Fall day. ❤️🦃
We were so excited to welcome back our sweet blind sheep Albert today, who is finally back from the vet hospital, where he has been since August! We rushed Albert to the vet seven weeks ago when he was having trouble urinating. Ultrasounds and X-rays showed he had bladder stones and scar tissue in his urethra, likely from a breeding injury suffered at his former home. Unfortunately he needed multiple surgeries and treatments to correct the problems, but thanks to the research and skills of the amazing Dr. Fecteau and the wonderful staff and consultants at New Bolton Center in PA, Albert is now peeing freely and happily surrounded by his friends and all of his human caretakers who have been so worried about him. It was great to hear his loud Baaaa! when he settled in to his old stall - as soon as his catheter site heals he will be out grazing in the pasture again. We missed you so much, Albert - Welcome Home!!❤️❤️❤️🐑😀
We have named the new little goat Frankie (because he has blue eyes like Frank Sinatra🙂). It was a little chilly this morning so he had to wear a tiny goat coat!💕🐐
We have named the new little goat Frankie (because he has blue eyes like Frank Sinatra🙂). It was a little chilly this morning so he had to wear a tiny goat coat!💕🐐
There is nothing cuter than the tiny voice of a baby goat!💕It even makes the turkeys gobble too!😂 (📹: Maureen McGowan )
We have a new baby goat!❤️This little boy is a Nigerian Dwarf, about 2 months old, who was purchased by a man who lived in the city and had no place to keep him. He left him with his family who kept him in the basement for 3 days and had nothing to feed him other than rabbit pellets. Thankfully they knew they had to find him a better situation, and when they contacted us at Poplar we said we could give him a wonderful home. He is very tiny, only about 5 lbs., and is very shy. And he has incredible baby blue eyes! As soon as he arrived he happily dug into fresh hay, chopped forage, leaves and grass. We can’t wait for him to meet all of his new goat friends when he is done with his quarantine. He is so adorable, We love him already.❤️🐐
Trevor made his own little mud hole- he found a low spot under where the barn gutter had a leak in it- and dug out a perfect piglet sized wallow. He’s so smart! ❤️
Trevor the piglet enjoyed his first taste of freedom down at the chicken barn today- he had a great time running around and being silly!🙂❤️🐖
Took our new little piglet (who we have named Trevor!) out for a little walk with the harness the shelter gave us for him. The goats were surprised and very curious about this strange new animal in their yard!😂
A big welcome to our newest adorable resident! This little piglet was found running around in Oxen Hill MD and was picked up by PG county Animal Control. No local farms claimed him, so he will now have a wonderful life here with lots of piggy friends. He is a little nervous but is already rolling over for belly rubs - we love him so much already!🐖❤️
Sometimes at Poplar Spring we get to witness miracles. Our sweet goat Phoebe was hospitalized in June when she was found down out in the pasture unable to stand, and wouldn’t eat or drink. All treatments were unsuccessful and her liver was failing, so Phoebe was sent home to be euthanized, because we wanted her to be surrounded by her friends at the end. But Phoebe told us, with everything in her, that she did not want to die. She began eating enthusiastically again, and tried so hard to stand that we knew we had to give her more time. We purchased several carts for her, and started doing physical therapy and biweekly acupuncture to try to get her wonky legs working again. Every day she got stronger and stronger, and never gave up. And yesterday, for the first time, she walked outside of the barn on her own, and stayed up for 8 hours!! She was able to lie down and stand up again on her own also. She is so determined to be a normal goat again, she is just amazing. We made a little video to show her progress over the last few months. She never gave up, so neither did we. We love her so much, she is truly a miracle goat!🐐❤️🦽
A huge thanks to Wilma Bakes Cakes for making and selling these adorable cupcakes to benefit the animals at Poplar Spring this month!! Check them out, their cakes, cookies and other goodies are all amazing!! Eat delicious cupcakes and help the animals too! 😀♥
Did you know that September is National Chicken Month? In appreciation of these smart and social feathered friends, we created a new Be A Champion for Chickens cupcake -- and 100% of the proceeds will benefit Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary! ❤️🐔 🐥
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You know we had a good amount of rain from this week’s storms, when you see geese and ducks literally swimming in the pig yard!😂
Remi the blind cow and Rigby the groundhog sharing breakfast together.❤️
Little Yeti is fascinated watching his mentor Dudley play the “swing game”. Dudley teaches Yeti all of his games, good and bad.😂 Yeti just adores him.🐐❤️
*Update on Albert**He was found to be blocked with bladder stones, and needed emergency surgery to remove them! The surgery went well but Albert will need to stay in the hospital for two weeks to recover. He is resting comfortably in his hospital stall and we are so grateful to the wonderful vets at New Bolton who are taking such great care of him! We miss our sweet boy and can’t wait until he comes home to be with us again!
*Update on Albert**He was found to be blocked with bladder stones, and needed emergency surgery to remove them! The surgery went well but Albert will need to stay in the hospital for two weeks to recover. He is resting comfortably in his hospital stall and we are so grateful to the wonderful vets at New Bolton who are taking such great care of him! We miss our sweet boy and can’t wait until he comes home to be with us again!
Please keep our sweet blind sheep Albert in your thoughts. He is not feeling well and having trouble peeing, so we are on our way to the hospital to have him checked out. We hope he can get well and be home soon!
Please keep our sweet blind sheep Albert in your thoughts. He is not feeling well and having trouble peeing, so we are on our way to the hospital to have him checked out. We hope he can get well and be home soon!
For several days this goose was trying to survive after being abandoned near an auto body shop in Silver Spring. She was in great danger of being hit by a car or killed by predators, and seemed very scared and confused. The shop employees kindly offered her water to drink, and thankfully yesterday she was rescued by a kind woman who saw the distressed goose and contacted us. She was determined to save her, although she didn’t have a crate or anyone to help her transport. She refused to leave the goose and called a family member, and a few hours later they arrived safely at Poplar Spring! We named her Edwina and introduced her to Franklin, who was also found abandoned in a neighborhood- he happily demonstrated to Edwina how to enjoy the pond and sanctuary life.💕We are so happy that there are good people in the world who see something wrong and do something about it, even if it is inconvenient or challenging. Edwina will now have a wonderful life where she will be safe and cared for.❤️
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