JoJo is not well. We are not sure what is up with him but whatever it is, it’s not good. When JoJo came in a few weeks ago his left hind leg was swollen, he had a good check up and xrays and nothing showed up. It wasn’t bugging him so we let it go. A couple of weeks later suddenly he was running a fever, the leg swelling got worse and now it was painful. Another rounds of tests without finding anything. With pain meds and antibiotics it got better in a few days and once again he was good to go. This week his other hind leg swelled up and became really painful, once again he was running a feve ..read more

it has been a tough couple of days. mystic had her eye surgery to restore her sight. she is now in a cone and needs 3 sets of eye drops, some every 2 hours. this is not her most favorite thing and timing wise it is a headache getting them all in on time. plus she hates the cone so to make sure we know this ALL DAY LONG, she uses that freaking cone like a wrecking ball! little snape sadly passed away. marvin seizured again yesterday. skye colicked for about 12 hours, the vets were out twice, once at night and of course thru the rest of the night he needed close monitering. i will say that i ..read more

Cash is a little 9 week old shepherd cross puppy in ICU at Boundray Bay Veterinary Specialty Hospital fighting for his life. His family unable to afford the spiralling medical bills were caught between a rock and a hard place and finally after much regret were considering euthanization. Instead, Cash was signed over to SAINTS last night in a last ditch attempt to save his life. Cash saw Dr Gordon the neurologist at 11pm last evening. He ordered an emergency late night diagnostic, sedating him and removing some cerebral/spinal fluid to send for testing. The best guess right now is that Cash ha ..read more

i call the rabbits the silent screamers and i call horses the silent slaves. there are some truly good or great homes out there for both of them and mediocre to horrid for all the rest. the smallest and the mightiest of the beasts that we have tamed and yet the ones we most abuse. bred for one purpose only to serve in some form or another, each individual eventually of so little value. they die alone, never knowing why we wanted them in the first place. i look at my new horse Fabulous Charm, great grand daughter of Foolish Pleasure, grand daughter of the mighty Seattle Slew. three generations ..read more

SAINTS is complicated. It is this vast mini world made up of individual animal and human personalities and needs, of water, and grass and fences and gates, and food, and laundry, and windows and gates. There are bills, and donors, and accounting and laws, all needing to be taken in consideration, all important in some form or another. A few months ago one of our former employees felt that i had stepped away, not involved, not caring too much any more about SAINTS. What I was doing was trying to redistribute the various responsibilities so that when I am no longer here, SAINTS would be safe. Th ..read more

So on Sunday I was visiting my new broken and starved ex race horse and I said to her “You are Strong, You are Mighty, you are Seattle Slew’s granddaughter!” and on Monday my girl with Michelle…. (turn on volume and watch til end!) https://www.saintsrescue.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/video-1586215678-1.mp4 oops ..read more

SAINTS is full and didn’t have room so I decided to take her on myself and put her into boarding with Rick. She will get all the TLC she needs there to help her become the horse she is supposed to be. Her racing name was Fabulous Charmer She is a thoroughbred 18 year old ex race horse. Her grandfather was Seattle Slew, Her great grand mother was Foolish Pleasure, 2 very famous racehorses. Having famous ancestors didn’t help her. I call her Charm. Charm had a shitty life, thank goodness the SPCA Cruelty Dept. rescued her. I love her, hopefully she will soon feel healthy, happy and valued ..read more

its been busy here. we are still down 2 staff. skye colicked 2 days ago. frost colicked yesterday. charlotte is not well. mitzy’s biopsy came back..non cancerous..yay! sadly stella’s also came back but with terrible news and she is now palliative. new dog buttons wants to be held 24/7 and barks a lot when he is not sleeping which is most of the night. so far everyone else is ok but the staff here are without a doubt getting tired. looks like a long road ahead of us which totally sucks. we will keep hanging in and doing the best we can. HUGE thanks to our staff and volunteers at the f ..read more

I am 61, have bad lungs and work in health care. Yes I worry about COVID. I worry about me, my family. I worry about my patients, my co workers, and I worry about the people and animals at SAINTS. This is a difficult time, it is scary waiting for the big shoe to drop. Many of the nurses I work with are scared. They don’t know what this virus will mean to them, to their families and friends. None of us do but we are all afraid it might be bad. Everyone I know is worried and none of us have that crystal ball to tell us what to expect. I have been thinking about this a lot. About how to cope ..read more

I am sure everyone has noticed that Mystic is getting cloudy eyes, these are cataracts brought on by her diabetes. Now our magical mystical puppy would love to regain her sight, so Carol and I made the trek out to New West to the eye specialist to see if she was a candidate for cataract removal surgery (for anyone interested in more information here is a helpful link https://www.ethosvet.com/blog-post/cataracts-and-cataract-surgery-in-dogs/). After a burger at McDonalds (Mystic insisted), we got going on the tests to determine if she was a candidate. She was not cooperative AT ALL. Mystic flai ..read more