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Pauline’s page
Dear Friends,
2009 looked to be a very frightening want to be played with on one day
year as far as funds are concerned and surely the art of give and take
and we went into our new financial must be a good lesson to learn and to
year with a huge deficit. Everybody take into adulthood.
was finding things difficult financially
and we really did worry that this All the staff and volunteers have
maybe the year that we would really worked so hard as usual and I had a
struggle. It has not been easy but you long orphan season with the Cubby
as supporters have come up trumps Hole in my kitchen being in use right
and although our general donations from January through to September.
have been down, many of you have Afon, the otter cub was first, then little
helped by holding events for us such Snowdrop, the tiny badger cub who
as coffee mornings and raffles and did not survive. Hope the female otter
that really has meant that we have cub was next followed by the usual
been able to carry out our work. kitchen crew of badger cubs.
Some of you have been very intrepid The next occupants were the fawns
- doing parachute jumps, bungee and finally little Ozzie, the third otter
jumping and children have gone cub of the season who was in the
without Easter and Birthday presents kitchen until late September. The
and donated money to our charity dogs are pleased to have ‘their’
instead which I think is so fantastic. Cubby Hole back again - but, no
If one good thing comes out of the doubt, not for long.
crisis that the country has been going
through, it has to be the proof that Most of you will know that Simon has
when people pull together much can a large Great Dane called Rocky who
be achieved. sometimes sadly chews his paws so
is often seen with an Elizabethan col-
Our open weekends have been really lar on to stop him chewing. It is not a
busy and the first Pet Service held good idea to go down the stairs in
here on one of the weekends went front of him when he has it on as he
well. It sometimes helps to do is quite capable of scooping you up
something that makes us realise how and helping you down!! Poor little
lucky we are to have pets and how, Albert, my shadow injured his leg and
as children we can learn respect of had to have an operation and of
animals and the responsibility of looking course, you’ve guessed, had to wear
after them properly. Maybe they don’t an Elizabethan collar to stop him
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