she is a two year old female she's super sweet she's a domestic long hair she is keisha winking at a little bit aggressive is just because she's kind of protective of herself room when they're surrendered we have owners to tell us how they were all when they were their surroundings really were on the shows have been here for long enough for us to really get a good read on her but she seems to be pretty good with cats as long as our war calm oh no no no but it seems have more of a calm kind of laid back to meaner she likes to play but i think she seems to get a little too rough if someone's annoying her twenty four seven and if you're interested here you can check out her information owner was moving to a new home where they didn't allow dogs she's super sweet and as you can see she's also really good with all children older kids adults se she did lunge dogs a couple times while on leash so i think it really just depends what kind of dog you have in the home if you're interested in value can check out  chain around his neck super sweet he loves all people care and seen years but he's not to cats and dogs they should be it the only pet in the home he should be in a home with a strong male who can handle him farm and sanctuary is named after a book by asteroid land and is a story of a little kind of gnome like creature who lives in the barn and when the farmer's go to sleep at night he protects the animals and he does frowns and he protection and possibility and we just loved that story and that's where the name tom to end farm and sanctuary comes song is the book the top ten i asked her when i was in college i couldn't afford to go to college and  support my own personal horse and what we decided to do was to place her in a good home the people who had her were able to keep her and she was transferred to their neighbor and their contract transferred right over with with her and they decided not to keep her and they sent her to auction and she went to slaughter we found out just a few days too late that she had learned through the auction and so that that was really it will it kind of made an impression on me and having one of my own horses go to slaughter and i decided that what i really wanted to do was try to make a difference one animal at a time  big south and these guys are probably only around three fifty four hundred pound weight right now they would have been fodder at about six months of age and they're probably going to go up to be about five hundred or six hundred pounds is  them home to kind of butcher in their backyard or people who are doing this for an industry and a lot of the animals go right from the auction to the slaughter house so we tend to go to and we are very specific in a mill in mind that we're looking for we try to vary that in a mall of course we want different species here but we also tries to not limit ourselves to just getting senior animals or just getting younger animals we try to go through a variety of different ages and we try to make sure that were rescuing animals that are truly in dire straits that need to be rescue i don't want to bred again bid against the dealer for example at auction because even the dealer that horse has an opportunity to get sold to a private home so we want to make sure that we stay within a call her the honorary pony she is actually a draft cross and this is a horse that was an orphaned nurse mare or friend foals such as mary are the result of the sport horse industry but so there's no artificial insemination so what they do is they take the mare and the baby and they separate them they send the mare to get repriced and they put the baby on a nanny mare and that's the mare who is bred hides anytime someone calls and says i need a nanny mare that baby comes off the mayor and the mare gets shipped out so these nanny mares are bred every single year for the sole purpose of producing milk for expensive thurber babies if that makes sense so she was a discard basically she was discarded she came over into the other rescue it four weeks of age and we adopted her soon after that but she came into that rescue at four weeks of age and so we do offer our own kind of special days and events and one of which is senior day and you know people are welcome to paying their pet their parents or grandparents come to the rescue and we kind of give them a private tour of the animals and know they can feed them and pet them and it's a very kind controlled environment they can come drink their coffee and the kid is something we we really break down and what happens is people sign up with their children for half an hour segments and they pick the animal they like to read to and they bring their favorite book and they come in the set and we bring the animal over on line and they read a story to that animal so i think it's a great way for kids to get involved kids are too young to volunteer they can still come in the animals and be learning to read or practicing their reading skills out loud to an animal which is a little listen to me leaving them to other people so they'll use those different is or ways we try to get the public involved without the pressure that people project is what you saw with fella what she did and what lima is doing with merriment tell done and the people project is for someone who is a regular volunteer and has the time to commit to working with the rescue animal and training that animal and we give up significant amount of time to teach that volunteer they get natural horsemanship lessons on a regular basis and then they come in the practice with that animal so those people who really may not have the money to own a horse they may not have the money to lease a horse but they're incredibly passionate incredibly dedicated and they'd like to help the horse and when they're in they can contribute to that animal's financial care the it could contribute to their day to day life and the quality of care that they receive it's called natural horsemanship and it's basically a way of like i said communicating with horses in a way that's not you know you're not telling them to do things you're that you spend time here you really get to know each animal they're just like humans they all have their own little quirks you can come here and think you know a lot but you learn something every day that year and it's every day is a new experience for you so it's a great way to get out of your home do something new you know get back to me it's a really great way to do that and we tend to all gravitate toward one animal or another and and the n one is really they recognize and they appreciate having that one person who goes a little extra from them and that's an important part of sanctuary i think is not just giving them life time protection it was providing that peace and possibility and protection but giving them the one on one attention and love and affection that you know every animal craves getting involved with rescue does not have to be a large financial commitment or a large file and here come in and we encourage anyone to call us at any time with questions on we're very transparent rescue and you're always able to message e mail or call it's my personal cell phone number that's on there and they can get involved at various levels however they would like so certainly anybody who'd like to follow our journey and get involved to not hesitate to contact us at any time we welcome having them join us big things planned for the  future my name is marlene will home i'm the current adoption chair for the house rabbit connection also known as h r c h r c is a foster only organization we do not have an actual brick and mortar shells or so we have several foster families that are fostering animals her our bylaws we can only take rabbits in from animal control officers fellow rabbit rescues and from veterinarians if somebody is interested in possibly adopting a rabbit and we have a written house rabbit connection rabbit care guide that if somebody says thinking of getting a rabbit or even if they've had one twenty years ago we want them to read the new updated information to be able to figure out if that something that they think that they can handle if somebody calls our hotline looking for a rabbit and that is a number that we have in massachusetts they will talk to one of our miners and get some basic information about what their home situation is like the noise level how many hours their home we do find out what the people are looking for as far as expectations of a rabbit try to match that but our first and foremost preference is to get the right rabbit into the right home and we want to be a win win situation for not only the adopter but for the rabbit as well so we will work with them to find them the right home and it's really important to find the right person is finding a new  adopter quick so it's really important that you know that we take the time to make sure that we screen properly and we get that rabbit into what we call a forever home fosters are really the core of our organization without fosters we wouldn't have the opportunity to socialize rabbits put them into a loving environment with natural normal household things going on if somebody is interested they can contact us through the hotline we will do an interview to find out you know what their situation is do a home inspection if that's feasible we set them up with everything we set them up with a cage with an x pen litter box the litter food pellets rabbit etc so the only thing that we ask in return is that you give them a safe and loving home there are definitely a difference between rabbits out in the wild normally they only live maybe four or five years because of their subject to the predators indoor rabbits are a different breed they're domestically bred they're not just an outdoor rabbit brought inside so they don't know how to fend for their own food and they come in all different sizes there's flemish trying so that can be about twenty two pounds there's also dwarf rabbits that can be about one or two pounds and everything in between rabbit personalities whitely you have some rabbits that love to do what we call being peace and that's running and just jumping up and twisting in the air that's a sign of happiness and security other rabbits just like to kind of chill and just take in the  world rabbits do typically like to toss things baby key rings are great for them to pick up and toss toilet paper tubes so you want to make sure that you give them something appropriate to chew for that so they're not going after great gramma's you know  hundreds and your carpeting so there are some like i said really unique personalities that are very unusual we just adopted a rabbit valor to a woman in connecticut and he was found loose in the rain in the wilson section of windsor and we took him in and fostered him and he is like a dog he shares the house with a golden retriever and four shelties and he thinks he's one of the dogs and they sleep together they play together it's really remarkable to see the relationship between them i adopted my first rabbit izzy almost fifteen years ago she came from springfield massachusetts their intimate control officer she had been abused or neglected had just foster her and when i went to the foster family to visit all i did was i saw her big black eyelashes bad thing and i knew i had to have or and you know over the course of time she became less aggressive with food and she trusted me and knew that she'd always have a meal but she was a little feisty little rabbit but rabbits have wonderful personalities very unique i've had close to eight of my own rabbits and i fostered probably close to twenty they all have unique personalities some are more enduring than others but you know what they are they just weave their way into your heart and that's what we want other people to happen and i guess the last thing i want to say is always opt to adopt twenty three kittens that we rescued from a county shelter in new jersey over the weekend and about half of them went up for adoption already and other half will go up in a couple of days so are has two other siblings larry and curly and all three of them are available and he seems to be pretty laid back kitten  he was a little tired out from a bunch of people viewing him this morning so he was napping when we picked him up but he seems very friendly and doesn't mind being  is probably pretty playful like a typical kitten the only thing we noticed is he does seem to be nervous around  so this is lydia and she is eight week old per month or she is a little domestic short hair kitten and she's very very friendly and play and she absolutely loves to be petted in the scratched right now she's getting a little antsy because we just had her play but she is also part of our group of kittens that came from new jersey and she really wants to run around so she is kind of a rare kitten actually so she is as you can see she's kind of an orange tabby with some white on her and she's a female most of the time when you see orange cats they are males so she's a little bit of a unique kitten looks like she really wants to run around and play there right now so if you are interested in lydia check her out on our website this is jack and he is a male domestic short haired cat and he is about ten weeks old he's here with us sister jill who very much likes to cuddle with  be awesome if they could be adapted together they can go separately so he seems to kind of be very calm at first and then when he kind of settle in he get very  adoption only for a day or two so he has a lot of other friends here reading also so you can check the mouth on our website at spirit and shelter dot or this is war her breed is kind of somewhat unknown but we're guessing maybe some rat terrier maybe some beagle she's about five months old and she is a rescue from texas we have about five puppies here right now that will go up for adoption shortly from texas so wore here does have a sibling in with her that she likes to cuddle up with we've noticed that she really likes to cuddle in general she loves to just kind of climb onto your lap and get petted and snuggle up there  she will probably make a great couch companion this winter and she is up to date on her shots and spayed and do you are and is ready to go and find her new forever cuddle bu definitely under thirty pounds maybe even under twenty five she is about three months old and also has a sibling here available for adoption she is one of our rescues from texas so she's part of the the small group that came up just the other day she seems to be very energetic so sometimes even though a dog is small they still have a lot of energy and need a lot of exercise and it's true at the end of the day you can probably carry them home if they're too tired but they do still need to get out and about and run around and chase a ball and have lots of fun and play so we think sheila here will probably get along with other dogs she's been seeing other dogs here at the shelter and seems very very interested in them and not quite sure how she would do with cats she may really like to chase cats partly because of her breed partly just because of her personality she seems super alert and active  so if you're interested in checking out sheila check our website or come on down to the shelter