Spring 2016 Newsletter

We'd like to wish everyone a very Happy Easter - please encourage family and friends to adopt the Make Mine Chocolate Campaign and boycott pet shops and breeders and to buy a chocolate or toy Easter bunny NOT a real one.

Please remember to rescue an animal friend, please don't buy.

Hello to our latest intakes; FIVE ex-caged hens who came to us in a terrible state.

Two hens couldn't walk, one has a problem with her rear end and all are almost featherless. Thankfully two hens that we have had for about six weeks now have feathered up so much that they are unrecognisable from the tiny scrawny ladies that arrived here. They were literally crying out and jumping away from us in fright when first arriving - now they follow the lady who gives them food everywhere.

One little lady, the sixth hen we took in, was so incredibly ill that she died just 24 hours after she grasped her freedom. She was full of a substance that blocks her oviduct and leads to misery and pain; so much for how great eggs are.... these hens are bred to produce eggs at a phenomenal rate and so egg problems in ex-commercial hens and obviously hens still in the cruel system, are high. She died of a heart attack out in the sunshine she never could appreciate due to being so poorly - shame on the farmers who put these super individual creatures through so much.

Below are Iddy and Biddy starting to feather-up after just three weeks in our care.

Piggy Stories

The area of land that we were cultivating for rescuing pigs has had to come to a temporary halt due to the wet weather. However, when it is finished it will be alongside our new wildlife area that should flourish this Spring and later in the year - exciting times in 2016 we hope.

Sarah walks for Forget-Me-Not

One of the founders of the rescue is to walk Offa's Dyke Path in May 2016 - we shall be publishing sponsor forms and a website for raising money very soon. Cheques can be made payable to Forget-Me-Not Animal Rescue and sent to 261 Stoops Lane, Doncaster, DN4 7HT and donations can also be made online through PayPal. We are hoping to raise £1,000 so please spread the word by any social media you use or more famously the great old fashioned 'word of mouth'.

An excellent range of shoes and hiking boots can be bought from Vegetarian Shoes

Gift Aid

Please don't forget to Gift Aid your donations as it is the only time we get free money from the government at no expense to yourselves; all you have to do is fill our Gift Aid form or simply email us stating your name and address and that you would like to Gift Aid all donations to Forget-Me-Not Animal Rescue.

For cruelty-free Easter goodies please see Animal Aid, Viva and Shop Vegan

Please support Forget-Me-Not Animal Rescue

We do not receive any funding and are a non profit rescue our work helping animals is only made possible through the generous support and donations we receive. Please help fund our vital work to rescue animals and protect them from cruelty.

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