‘You need something to help you through.’ These are the words of 22-year-old zookeeper Gabby Charlesworth who is recovering from a rare form of adrenal cancer. For Gabby, that ‘something’ is the animals in her care. Gabby returned to work at...
Anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder―sadly, these words have become everyday concepts in our hectic, stressful twenty-first century lives. The irony of the situation, the fact that we have to keep functioning in a world...
Before I was a parent, my animals were like my children and it seemed that those with special needs were drawn to me the most. Over the years I have housed an epileptic cat, malnourished hand-raised birds, and a pup with a lower motor neuron disease. This is the story...
A long, long time ago, someone with the authority to speak on behalf of the Judeo-Christian God, told the people of the Earth that they had dominion over the animal kingdom. It was part of the initial plan for the world, according to Genesis 1:26: ‘And God said,...
This is the story how a rescue puppy called Josh came into my life in the wee hours of the morning. I lie awake in the early hours, remembering many years ago, when the unusual sound of the telephone had peeled through the darkness one night in my childhood...
