Teaming - 1€/month micro donations

Thank you to everyone who has joined recently. As you may have seen Big V sanctuary is in trouble, but having regular support will make a difference. Please share and support in any way you can xx Merci à tous ceux qui nous ont rejoints récemment. Comme vous l'avez peut-être constaté, le sanctuaire de Big V est en difficulté, mais le fait d'avoir un soutien régulier fera la différence. Merci de partager et de soutenir de quelque manière que ce soit xx

Thank you to all our teamers! Please keep spreading this group as much as you can - a little help from all you lovely individuals makes such a difference X

Duchess is still undergoing medication for cancer. She has shown a small sign of improvement, we are trying to remain level headed and not get our hopes up. She is not particularly fond of us coming and prodding and poking her everyday, but she is doing her best to ignore us.
Because the cancer is in her eye, we have to keep her in the barn for the forseable future, as sunlight will exacerbate the problem. So that she doesn't stress too much, the other cows have been kept inside with her. This means our straw and hay remain at wintertime needs and costs.
Can you help us to support our cows being inside? Are you in the position to sponsor one of them? No amount is too little, we really are desperate. The hording case has turned into a financial nightmare. The extra costs of keeping our herds inside are frightening, and of course we didn't know Duchess was going to get cancer. Nor were we able to predict what would happen with the outbreak. All of our cows are in need of sponsors. Duchess, Princess, Rupert, Dick and Jack. Please, please get in touch.

Here Teddy is doing a great impression of nearly every human around the world - hiding. If only it were that easy to not take responsibility for our actions. All Teddy has done is pinched Bess and Little Beans apples and is now pretending to be invisible. He is an amazing little character.

Jerome giving Luna her first hourly session of physio today. Luna is in need of sponsors. If you would like to learn more about how Luna's came to be with us and her journey you can find it on our website, http://www.bigvsanctuary.com/cows/luna/ and in more detail on "The Big V Blog" tab at the top right of the page. For more information on Luna's care needs and progress please contact us at bigvsanctuary@outlook.com

After a long day of caring for the garden folk, the human folk closed the end of the day together. Jacket potatoes on the fire and log sparklers ; archery, hide and seek and tall tales of phantoms and werewolves. Listening to the frogs start to call for mates in the lake while watching the super moon. Bats dipping above our heads, while the owls hoot and the peacocks call out their melancholy goodnight.
The lockdown doesn't change our human lives ; we are used to being isolated. From one month to the next we don't go out to bars or restaurants. Our lives revolve around the needs of the folk in our care, from the smallest to the large, we listen and watch. Our days start before dawn, in the darkness and finish on or after the sun dips below the horizon. The children aren't phased by what may come, or if the shops run out of food. As parents and guardians of so many, Jerome and I are only concerned with everyone's wellbeing.
We are enjoying the extra quietness of the world, the skies left undisturbed. The growing confidence of the wildlife around us. The air is cleaner, sweeter ; a noticeable lack of chemical spray and noxious car fumes. Our dream is that lessons can be learned and that compassion can be awakened, while people are locked away. May the human animal set forth again into a world, more quietly than before, with more reverence for the beauty of the home they depend on and all that inhabit within.

Thank you to all our new joiners - please spread this far and wide so that we can build up the monthly fund for this amazing cause! xx

http://www.bigvsanctuary.com

This is the link to our website where you can meet more of our family and even sponsor, donate or adopt an individual to help give them the best life and care possible.

This is Raiph, who's story of how we met I will post next....

Remember that we cherish your support and ask that you share our work with friends and on other social networks to help spread the word in the hope that we can gain more wonderful "Teamers".
Thank you again for being one of 'the best people'!

Welcome to Big V Sanctuary! In these pages we would like to invite you into our world and share with you the lives of those who live here - both human and nonhuman. We will share with you our hopes and dreams and the passions which drive our every action in caring for all our residents.

You have our deepest gratitude for choosing to support our sanctuary and helping us to care for our precious residents. Thank you for being one of ‘the best people’!