During the course of a year we are brought many animals which their owners either no longer want or are able to care for.  It is never our intention to re-home these animals, however, sometimes circumstances mean that we have little choice but to try and find another home for them. 

At the moment we are desperately searching for a home for Dunn, the miniature horse.

Dunn was brought to The Sanctuary in April 2006, along with Wilfred the goat, by his owner who was apparently moving house and therefore losing the field where they were kept.  

Unfortunately, the owner did not wait until we had agreed to take them, she just arrived on our doorstep following her initial phone call asking if we could help, with them both in a trailer in our absence and told our staff that we had agreed.   She left a telephone number and promised to send on Dunn's papers.  The papers never arrived and the telephone number was unobtainable when we tried to contact her to say that we had not agreed to take them so we therefore had no choice but to keep them. 

Wilf settled down very well and mixes with the other goats quite happily but Dunn is proving to be a huge problem.   As time has progressed he has proved to be quite a bully and is now constantly bullying and biting our goats. As a lot of our goats are elderly and infirm they cannot run away from him and those now do not come out of their stables if he is near and so they are suffering and this is not acceptable to us.    He is very jealous of the goats when there is food about and so can be 'nippy' with our visitors too when they are feeding the goats.  On his own he is fine, but we just do not have a field where he can be on his own.  

As the owner arrived when we were not on site and his papers were never sent on, we have no information about him, regarding age or breeding.  He has not been gelded and he is not broken for riding, although we would question whether he should be ridden at all, given his size.

We believe that on his own, or in a field with bigger horses, he would be no problem.

Anyone who can offer Dunn a permanent home where he can be happy and well cared for, please contact us to discuss it.

We also have in our intensive care unit, a canary, a parrots and 2 conures.  Again these have been unwanted pets, but because we do not have an aviary, they are in cages in our intensive care where they do not get to see the public or have much attention or interplay with humans.   If you could offer a home to one (or more) of these, please contact us to discuss it.

We have recently rehomed a cockatiel from our intensive care until and about 6 guinea pig babies which were not planned!  Unfortunately a male managed to escape into the female enclosure and nature took its course!   Fortunately the babies have found good homes.