Our residents
The animals who live here.
Our canine residents live in the house with our family, which is the whole point. There are no kennel rows here, no runs and no waiting. They sleep on the furniture, they follow us from room to room, and they have twenty two acres of forest to wander with somebody always within calling distance.
Johann (Yohan)
Loved by two people, and asked to make a journey he could not make.
Nobody is entirely sure how old Johann is. Twelve at the very least, and quite possibly more. His owner died, and a member of that family took him in and loved him beautifully, which is the part of this story that does not get told often enough.
That person is now moving to the other side of the world, and he fully intended to take Johann with him. Then he sat down and worked out what it would actually mean for this particular dog. A sixteen hour flight, followed by two weeks in quarantine, for an old shepherd who runs high on anxiety at the best of times. He made the heartbreaking decision that it was more than he could ask of him.
So Johann came here instead. He is with us now, on twenty two acres, with people around him and nothing left to be frightened of. He is anxious, but he is enormously loving, and letting him go was an act of love by somebody who did not want to.
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Bear, Noah, LL Cool Fluffy, Jack and Peggy are on our memorial page.
Every animal we have cared for and lost has their story kept there, with the people who held them at the end.
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Medication, mobility support, diagnostics and food add up quickly for an animal in hospice care. Sponsoring a resident covers a real animal's real costs, and we will keep you updated on how they are doing for as long as they are with us.