Cassie enjoying last Summer
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As 2004 began for many people with all kinds of problems and personal traumas, the Sanctuary had its own losses but also a wonderful bonus as for the second year running the Department of Agriculture saw fit to make and ex-gratia payment towards our work with the donkeys, horses and ponies. Last year we were awarded almost €4,500 for building a small and now very popular information centre. This year we have been awarded €7,000 towards the cost of buying a horse trailer, fencing off the new 4 acres of land which we bought last year with a personal legacy, building a field shelter on it and planting up a shelter belt of trees around its periphery. This in time will take some of the excess water out of the land whilst concurrently providing a wind-break for animals and humans alike. We are extremely pleased to be entrusted with these extra funds with which to improve conditions for our equine friends. In terms of losses we had to say goodbye first to little Lucky Biscuit, our black Shetland pony whose damaged and arthritic joints finally became too painful for her to have any real quality of life, and later to Cassie. |
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