Maria Daines
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8/26/2007 10:04:05 PM
Autumn Appeal For FRIEND animal rescue, Kent, UK
****URGENT APPEAL****
Dear all,
please read the appeal notes below from Friend Rescue. I will approach builders merchants in Kent and ask for donations of cement & other materials for these projects & then all we'll need is a team of helpers to undertake the work hopefully before winter sets in, so if you know anyone with building skills & general handy people, please contact either Marion, Mark or me & between us maybe we can make some headway & arrange a weekend when we can all go to the sanctuary & get stuck in with some practical help. Also if you can donate even the price of a bag of cement or send a donation for the animal feeders for the fields it would really help, thanks so much, let's ROCK THIS APPEAL OUT!!!!!!!!
Love from Maria xx
Friend Animal Rescue in Kent
Please can you help us and the animals now that the winter is looming. We really don't want to have to wait until the weather deteriorates and life becomes miserable, if not impossible for all of us.
We have several projects which need serious attention and desperately need your help.
1 - We are desperate for hard standing for both the animals to feed off and the hay to be stored on. It is imperative that we have tractor access to the hay storage areas — if we can't get the tractor to the hay and then out to the animals in the winter (the bales probably weigh best part of half a ton each and are impossible to manhandle) then the animals will either break in to the storage area and potentially do thousands of pounds worth of damage, break out of the field and potentially do thousands of pounds worth of damage to someone else's property. The solution is to lay concrete tracks and large bays for storage. We are desperate for the funds and a committed team that will help us achieve that end.
2 - We are feeding our animals with big round bales these days and, animals being animals, they eat some, wee on some, poop on some, walk on some and sleep on the rest. Putting the hay on the ground is an incredibly wasteful way of feeding but we simply can't afford the £300 - £400 it'll take to buy a couple of cattle feeders.
If someone would consider fund-raising for them it would probably save us up to £2,000 in hay per year. Please consider doing this for the animals.
As I look out of the window it is raining. We have had the wettest summer that I've ever experienced and, already, in August we're wading through mud. I dread to think what it will be like in February when, in past summers where the ground was parched and the grass was burnt and brown, we were slopping about in the stuff come midwinter. Since we are experiencing problems this summer with getting the hay out and our tractor is already getting stuck, so sodden is the ground, we are panicking. We rarely turn animals away since so few people are prepared to take on farmed animals, the Cinderellas of the animal rights movement, but things cannot continue. We have decided that we cannot take on anymore animals until we have the infrastructure in place to give them the quality of life that they deserve.
3 - A kind volunteer started to rebuild a stable from the ground up, with new breeze blocks. Unfortunately he was unable to finish the project and it has stood for some time, about 6 courses high and neither use nor ornament. Please, is there anyone out there that can finish the job? We have the blocks and sand and just need a lintel and some cement.
4 - Is there anyone out there that can put the roof on the above building once the walls are up?
5 - We have a block building that was damaged in a storm leaving walls standing at about 1m high. It might be viable to raise the walls with another material (the old, standing blocks are a funny widt
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