The following Big Ears animals have been sponsored. Thank you so much to everyone who is now a sponsor. If you would like to be a sponsor please go to the sponsor an animal page.
Adam the goat arrived at Big Ears on the 19th October 2018. He had been dumped in the bush down a forestry track in north west Tasmania. His kind rescuer called him Adam and contacted us for his relocation.
Sponsorship of Adam is $100.00 per year which will go towards his health checks, nail trims and regular worming.
Sponsored by:
Chrissie Heyn – expires 25/10/2019.
Strive Chiropractic – expires 30/10/2019.
Dale Heather – expires 05/11/2019.
Spirit
Spirit
In 2014 we rescued six rabbits from Legana. Three of the girls were pregnant and had sixteen babies between them at Big Ears. Spirit was one of those babies.
He is a big boy now and although he has had surgery on his 2nd eyelids he is a happy healthy bun
Sponsorship is $50.00 per year which goes towards his vet checks, vaccinations and parasite control.
This lady is one of the 30 rabbits rescued from a terrible neglect situation in Hobart in mid January 2015. For more on his story please visit our rabbit rescue tab.
Maria Rita was found on the side of the road on a cold Monday night at the beginning of September 2018. The police officer that found her thought it might just be a matter of putting her back over the fence with her flock. When he shone his torch over the fence there was no flock in sight and no nearby farm house. He called Big Ears and we picked her up and started her on the bottle.
She has been an absolute pleasure and one of the healthiest lambs we have had the pleasure to raise. She needs to have a surgical removal of her tail as it is much more humane than banding the tail.
Sponsorship of Maria Rita is $100.00 per year which goes towards her vaccinations, health checks and parasite control.
Sponsored by:
Ruth McMahon – expires 11/10/2019.
Leslie Gensheimer – expires 13/10/2019.
Brownie
Brownie
Brownie was a duckling that needed help. He was found in a box with wire on the top. He had a badly infected eye and his head had been severely pecked. The finders couldn’t say no so took him in. They cleared up his eye and tended to his pecked head. Because he turned out to be a drake and they had chickens they tried to re-home him with no luck. The only people who were interested in were the ones that wanted to eat him.
Brownie came to the sanctuary late July 2018 and has fitted in beautifully with the other Big Ears ducks.
Little Bonk was found in the middle of the road on a rainy day at the end of May. She was shivering in the rain when a kind lady stopped for her as other cars were driving around her. When she was brought to the sanctuary she was covered in flea’s, dehydrated and really hungry. She survived the night so we thought she was a fighter.
Bonk was treated for fleas and worms and passed the biggest worm we had ever seen come out of a rabbit. It took her ages to begin to eat grass and she was bottle fed by Jacqui for two months.
Bonk can be sponsored for $50.00 per year which will go towards her vet checks, parasite control and vaccinations. She will also be de-sexed shortly as female rabbits that don’t have babies usually develop uterine cancers and de-sexing improves their behaviour.
