digesting the holidays

I hope everyone had an enjoyable day off work, assuming you did have the day off work on Thursday. In the U.S., it was “Thanksgiving”, a holiday that makes me cringe. Others have talked about the genocide that we are celebrating, I’ve talked a little about the turkeys who are killed, as well as the [...]

helping sanctuaries

Mary posted today about a pig sanctuary in Florida that needs help. While some of that help needs to be money, a lot of help also needs to be hands on. It takes a lot to run a sanctuary in a sustainable way. You need a dedicated group of volunteers (and often employees) to help [...]

Thanksgiving With the Turkeys, a recap

We started the day at 8am with ice-filled water buckets. It was a cold morning, made even colder by the wind. A few of the weekday employees were there as well, so many of the chores were already done even though we got there an hour earlier than normal. It is amazing to me just [...]

turkey’s day

This will be a very quick post – it has been a long cold day, but an amazing one as well. Somewhere around 300 people came to Poplar Spring‘s Thanksgiving With the Turkeys, despite a predicted high in the 30′s, and a bitter wind. And the turkey’s had a hell of a time. It was [...]

turkey stories

I wrote an article for Stephanie’s animal rights blog on change.org about the turkeys at Poplar Spring. It was posted today, so go check it out!

rule of law, positive changes to come?

When I posted about the potential for change that Obama’s election gives us, and change.org’s vehicle for submitting ideas, Mary posted a link to a really interesting NYT Editorial that ended up in my spam box. I didn’t notice it until tonight, so it took half a week to be rescued, but that’s okay – [...]

tangible impact

Something really neat happened today. Terry, of Poplar Spring, emailed me to tell me that someone in Iowa had rescued some chickens, went looking online for how to make them some sweaters, found my post about sweater-wearing chickens, and was able to contact Terry to get more information on how to make some sweaters herself. [...]

thanksgiving with the turkeys at poplar spring

This coming Saturday, 11/22/08, there is a giant vegan potluck held at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary. “Thanksgiving with the turkeys”. Thanksgiving with the Turkeys Saturday, November 22, 2008 12 noon to 4 p.m. Come celebrate Thanksgiving WITH the turkeys – join our six friendly turkeys and all their friends in celebrating a cruelty-free Thanksgiving potluck. [...]

bunny love

I don’t know much about bunnies, but the impression I’ve gotten is that seeing snuggling bunnies isn’t all that common. I think Allison (on the left) is a snuggler, though. I remember her snuggling with Chloe and Percy, when they were still around. Now she has Twinkle to snuggle with. The calendar arrived today, and [...]

curiosity of cows

I was browsing through some old pictures tonight. Well, old is a relative term. These were from January 19 of this year. It was snowy (I am so not ready for winter!), and I remember that Otis and Petey were let out to run around for the first time since they’d gotten to the sanctuary. [...]