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	<title>Animal Communicator - Michelle Childerley &#187; abandoned</title>
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		<title>Beautiful Belle!!</title>
		<link>http://www.michellechilderley.co.uk/28/06/2010/beautiful-belle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Workshops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woodgreen Animal Shelter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abandoned]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Animal Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Animal Psychic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[orphaned]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to share with you all a wonderful guest who came to my last Animal Communication Workshop. It was heavily pregnant Belle, who arrived with Carol. Now Carol is fostering Belle as she has come from Woodgreen Animal Shelter until she has her pup and they are all homed. Belle was amazing at the [...]]]></description>
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<div class="topsy_widget_data topsy_theme_blue" style="float: right;margin-left: 0.75em;"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://button.topsy.com/widget/retweet-big?url=http://www.michellechilderley.co.uk/28/06/2010/beautiful-belle/&amp;shorturl=http://bit.ly/cFUCa6&amp;title=Beautiful+Belle%21%21&amp;theme=blue&amp;txt_tweet=tweet&amp;txt_retweet=retweet"></script></div><p>I wanted to share with you all a wonderful guest who came to my last Animal Communication Workshop. It was heavily pregnant Belle, who arrived with Carol. Now Carol is fostering Belle as she has come from Woodgreen Animal Shelter until she has her pup and they are all homed.</p>
<p>Belle was amazing at the workshop, we didn&#8217;t hear a peep out of her apart from telling me she was having 6 pups and didn&#8217;t like her food bowl, which Carol addressed straight away for her.</p>
<p>Well on Sunday Belle had her pups and has been amazing with them, 3 boys and 3 girls.<br />
<a href="http://michellechilderley.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/belle1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-689" title="belle1" src="http://michellechilderley.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/belle1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>I wanted to share with you an email that Carol sent to me today after she attended the workshop.</p>
<p>Michelle</p>
<div>I just feel I have to write to tell you what happened this morning.</div>
<div>As you know Belle had a C-Section yesterday and that usually means  that there may be a few problems with the bitch accepting the pups&#8230;&#8230;</div>
<div>Well I had no problems with Belle accepting them at all, I only had  to clean the pups once (making them wee &amp; poo) and that was while  she was still in the recovery room. She wanted to do it the 2nd  time&#8230;.FANTASTIC</div>
<div>Now&#8230;.for the most important bit&#8230;&#8230;</div>
<div>The vet and nurses yesterday quoted that Belle has very little milk  and that i would need to supplment them all with formula&#8230;&#8230;</div>
<div>Now&#8230;.my gut reaction was&#8230;.Ummm&#8230;C-section&#8230;&#8230;possibly  milk slow coming in&#8230;.if they dont suckle her, then she will not  produce milk&#8230;&#8230;So I went with my gut reaction and did not  intervene&#8230;..just watched carefully to see all were latched on&#8230;.</div>
<div>This morning I needed to weigh them to check that they had not lost  any weight&#8230;&#8230;</div>
<div>BELLE&#8230;&#8230;would not let me!  Everytime I tried to pick up a puppy,  she got up and took it back&#8230;..She wasn&#8217;t growling at me, she was just  adamant that I was not going to touch them&#8230;.Obviously thiis was a  problem as I needed to weigh them&#8230;&#8230;</div>
<div>I then thougth of you and decided to try to communicate with her,  it went like this&#8230;</div>
<div>I had a hand on Belle and I asked</div>
<div>Belle, can I communicate with you please&#8230;.I will not judge you,  I&#8217;m only here to love and help you.</div>
<div>The feeling I got was a distinctive NO&#8230;.</div>
<div>I communicated&#8230;.Belle, that&#8217;s fine, but can I just tell you  something which will help you?</div>
<div>I felt a definate&#8230;tut tut&#8230;.go on then!</div>
<div>I said I am here to help you in anyway you want&#8230;..but I really  need to weigh the puppies to make sure that they are all doing  well&#8230;&#8230;I want to make sure they are ok. I can&#8217;t tell if they have put  weight on. I will keep them here with you and I promise to give them  straight back. Can I do that please?</div>
<div>I felt her saying, ok, you can do it&#8230;&#8230;.</div>
<div>I then went on to take each pup from her in turn and weigh, record  it&#8217;s markings and give it a kiss before placing it back on the  nipple&#8230;&#8230;.She only got agetated when i did the last one again to be  sure I&#8217;d done it right&#8230;..</div>
<div>HOW BLOODY AMAZING WAS THAT!!!!!</div>
<div>Thank you so so much for sharing your gift with me!</div>
<div>I think you are truly amazing&#8230;.Mwah&#8230;..</div>
<div>Love always Carol, Belle &amp; 6 bundles of fur xxxxxxxx</div>
<div>When I stopped crying I managed to reply, what a great lady fostering these pregnant dogs and looking after them until the pups are ready to be rehomed and the mum too. If anyone is interested in homing either Belle or one of her pups please get in touch with Woodgreen Animal Shelter and they will arrange it from there.</div>
<div>Good luck Belle and all your pups and thank you so much to a truly wonderful lady&#8230;carol!! xxx</div>
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		<title>Animal Rescue Site &#8211; Free Food!</title>
		<link>http://www.michellechilderley.co.uk/09/06/2010/animal-rescue-site-free-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abandoned]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily so they can meet their quota of getting FREE FOOD donated every day to abused and neglected animals. It takes less than a minute (about 15 seconds) to go to their site and click on the blue box at the [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>The Animal Rescue Site</strong><br />
is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily so they can<br />
meet their quota of getting <strong>FREE FOOD</strong> donated every day to abused and<br />
neglected animals. It takes less than a minute (about 15 seconds) to go to<br />
their site and click on the blue box at the top right hand corner. This doesn&#8217;t<br />
cost you a thing.</p>
<p>Their corporate        sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate  food to        abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the website! Please pass it along to        people you know.<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.barkingmad.co.za/" target="_blank">http://www.barkingmad.co.za</a> <a href="http://www.barkingmad.co.za/%3E" target="_blank">&lt;http://www.barkingmad.co.za/&gt;</a><br />
</span>AGAIN, PLEASE TELL FRIENDS!         THANK YOU!</p>
<p>Love Michelle x</p>
<p><a href="http://michellechilderley.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/elephant-pic.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-668" title="elephant pic" src="http://michellechilderley.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/elephant-pic-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.</p>
<p>Mahatma Gandhi</p>

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		<title>Great News For Rusty :)</title>
		<link>http://www.michellechilderley.co.uk/24/09/2009/great-news-for-rusty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Everyone I have had some fantastic news regarding the future for Rusty. He is going to live permanently with his foster mum and dad. They decided that they couldn&#8217;t bear to let him go and he will be with them forever!! I am so excited for Rusty,  I was with him the day before [...]]]></description>
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I have had some fantastic news regarding the future for Rusty. He is going to live permanently with his foster mum and dad. They decided that they couldn&#8217;t bear to let him go and he will be with them forever!!</p>
<p>I am so excited for Rusty,  I was with him the day before this news was decided and he expressed that he was anxious at that point about what was going to happen to him. He was also wearing a new collar that day and the colour was blue which signifies communication, he is so brilliant <img src='http://michellechilderley.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>He stole my heart along with so many others&#8230;..I wish him well on his journey with a family that he loves so much <img src='http://michellechilderley.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
Love Michelle xx</p>
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		<title>Amazing Display of Forgiveness :)</title>
		<link>http://www.michellechilderley.co.uk/08/09/2009/amazing-display-of-forgiveness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Woodgreen Animal Shelter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Everyone Just wanted to update you on Rusty&#8217;s progress, I went to see him a couple of days ago and he is doing so well!! His hair which is also your protection is growing back fast and he is more alert and confident! What blows me away every time I meet this little chap [...]]]></description>
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<p>Just wanted to update you on Rusty&#8217;s progress, I went to see him a couple of days ago and he is doing so well!! <img src='http://michellechilderley.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  His hair which is also your protection is growing back fast and he is more alert and confident!</p>
<p>What blows me away every time I meet this little chap is his unconditional love and forgiveness, he is so kind, gentle and loving to everyone he comes in to contact with.</p>
<p>I am honored to have met and spent time with him. Thank you Rusty xx</p>
<p><strong>Ps  A reminder that I still have spaces left on my workshop for Saturday 19th September, this workshop will be filmed as part of my forthcoming Animal Communication DVD and everyone that attends will receive a FREE copy!! <img src='http://michellechilderley.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </strong></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-309" title="rusty1" src="http://michellechilderley.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/rusty1-300x225.jpg" alt="rusty1" width="300" height="225" /></p>

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		<title>An Amazing Dog Called Faith</title>
		<link>http://www.michellechilderley.co.uk/02/09/2009/an-amazing-dog-called-faith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[inspiration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Everyone A wonderful fellow Animal Communicator sent me this amazing story all about Faith, which I wanted to share with you all. She is a truly amazing dog with yet another valid message for us all!! I hope you enjoy it    xx]]></description>
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<p>A wonderful fellow Animal Communicator sent me this amazing story all about Faith, which I wanted to share with you all. She is a truly amazing dog with yet another valid message for us all!!</p>
<p>I hope you enjoy it  <img src='http://michellechilderley.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />   xx</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSB9aBMayxU"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/oSB9aBMayxU/default.jpg" width="130" height="97" border=0></a></p>

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		<title>One Devoted Lady and Her 400 Animals</title>
		<link>http://www.michellechilderley.co.uk/29/08/2009/one-devoted-lady-and-her-400-animals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tower Hill Sanctuary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abandoned]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[orphaned]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tower Hill Sanctuary in Essex is home to Fiona Oakes and 400 animals she has rescued. Take a look at her website www.towerhillstables.com where you can read about her achievements as an Olympic cyclist and now Marathon runner as well as her devotion to animals. Enjoy Love Michelle xx]]></description>
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<p>Take a look at her website <a href="http://www.towerhillstables.com">www.towerhillstables.com</a> where you can read about her achievements as an Olympic cyclist and now Marathon runner as well as her devotion to animals.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYMd1xkMmnM"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/rYMd1xkMmnM/default.jpg" width="130" height="97" border=0></a></p>
<p>Enjoy <img src='http://michellechilderley.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Love Michelle xx</p>

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		<title>Y&#8217;gotta meet Molly!</title>
		<link>http://www.michellechilderley.co.uk/01/07/2009/think-youve-had-it-tough-ygotta-meet-molly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope you all enjoy reading this amazing story about Molly, what an inspiration!! Many thanks to Tracy from Wood Green Animal Shelter, Godmanchester for sending this through to me. Meet Molly. She&#8217;s a grey speckled pony who was abandoned by her owners when Hurricane Katrina hit southern Louisiana. She spent weeks on her own [...]]]></description>
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<div class="topsy_widget_data topsy_theme_blue" style="float: right;margin-left: 0.75em;"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://button.topsy.com/widget/retweet-big?url=http://www.michellechilderley.co.uk/01/07/2009/think-youve-had-it-tough-ygotta-meet-molly/&amp;title=Y%27gotta+meet+Molly%21&amp;theme=blue&amp;txt_tweet=tweet&amp;txt_retweet=retweet"></script></div><p>I hope you all enjoy reading this amazing story about Molly, what an inspiration!! <img src='http://michellechilderley.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Many thanks to Tracy from Wood Green Animal Shelter, Godmanchester for sending this through to me.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-233" title="molly1" src="http://michellechilderley.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/molly1-168x300.jpg" alt="molly1" width="168" height="300" /></p>
<p>Meet Molly. She&#8217;s a grey speckled pony who was abandoned by her owners when Hurricane Katrina hit southern Louisiana. She spent weeks on her own before finally being rescued and taken to a farm where abandoned animals were stockpiled. While there, she was attacked by a pit bull terrier and almost died. Her gnawed right front leg became infected, and her vet went to LSU for help, but LSU was overwhelmed, and this pony was a welfare case. You know how that goes.</p>
<p><span id="more-232"></span>But after surgeon Rustin Moore met Molly, he changed his mind. He saw how the pony was careful to lie down on different sides so she didn&#8217;t seem to get sores, and how she allowed people to handle her. She protected her injured leg. She constantly shifted her weight and didn&#8217;t overload her good leg. She was a smart pony with a serious survival ethic.</p>
<p>Moore agreed to remove her leg below the knee, and a temporary artificial limb was built. Molly walked out of the clinic and her story really begins there.</p>
<p>&#8216;This was the right horse and the right owner,&#8217; Moore insists. Molly happened to be a one-in-a-million patient. She&#8217;s tough as nails, but sweet, and she was willing to cope with pain. She made it obvious she understood that she was in trouble. The other important factor, according to Moore, is having a truly committed and compliant owner who is dedicated to providing the daily care required over the lifetime of the horse.</p>
<p>Molly&#8217;s story turns into a parable for life in post-Katrina Louisiana. The little pony gained weight, and her mane finally felt a comb. A human prosthesis designer built her a leg.</p>
<p>The prosthetic has given Molly a whole new life, Allison Barca, DVM, Molly&#8217;s regular vet, reports.</p>
<p>And she asks for it. She will put her little limb out, and come to you and let you know that she wants you to put it on. Sometimes she wants you to take it off too. And sometimes, Molly gets away from Barca. &#8216;It can be pretty bad when you can&#8217;t catch a three-legged horse,&#8217; she laughs.</p>
<p>Most important of all, Molly has a job now. Kay, the rescue farm owner, started taking Molly to shelters, hospitals, nursing homes, and rehabilitation centers. Anywhere she thought that people needed hope. Wherever Molly went, she showed people her pluck. She inspired people, and she had a good time doing it.</p>
<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s obvious to me that Molly had a bigger role to play in life, Moore said. She survived the hurricane, she survived a horrible injury, and now she is giving hope to others.&#8217;</p>
<p>Barca concluded, &#8216;She&#8217;s not back to normal, but she&#8217;s going to be better. To me, she could be a symbol for New Orleans itself.&#8217;</p>
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<p>This is Molly&#8217;s most recent prosthesis. The bottom photo shows the ground surface that she stands on, which has a smiley face embossed in it. Wherever Molly goes, she leaves a smiley hoof print behind.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jasmine In 2003, police in Warwickshire, England, opened a garden shed and found a whimpering, cowering dog.  It had been locked in the shed and abandoned. It was dirty and malnourished, and had clearly been abused.  In an act of kindness, the police took the dog, which was a Greyhound female, to the nearby Nuneaton [...]]]></description>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><strong><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #804c19; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: #804c19;">In 2003, police  in<span> </span>Warwickshire,<span> </span>England, opened a garden shed and  found a whimpering, cowering dog.  It had been locked in the shed and abandoned.  It was dirty and malnourished, and had clearly been  abused.</span></span></strong></strong><strong><span style="color: #804c19; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 13.5pt; color: #804c19;"> </p>
<p><strong><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">In an act of kindness, the police took the dog, which was  a Greyhound female, to the nearby Nuneaton Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary, run  by a man named Geoff Grewcock and known as a willing haven for Animals  abandoned, orphaned or otherwise in need. </span></strong></strong></p>
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<p>Geoff and the other  sanctuary staff went to work with two aims to restore the dog to full health,  and to win her trust.  It took several weeks, but eventually both goals were  achieved.</p>
<p>They named her Jasmine, and they started to think about finding  her an adoptive home.</p>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-135" title="jasmine" src="http://michellechilderley.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/jasmine-150x150.jpg" alt="jasmine" width="150" height="150" /><br />
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #804c19; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 13.5pt; color: #804c19;">But Jasmine  had other ideas.  No-one remembers now how it began, but she started welcoming  all animal arrivals at the sanctuary.  It wouldn&#8217;t matter if it was a puppy, a  fox cub, a rabbit or any other lost or hurting animal.   Jasmine would peer into  the box or cage and, where possible, deliver a welcoming  lick.</span></span></strong></div>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #804c19; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 13.5pt; color: #804c19;">Geoff  relates one of the early incidents. &#8220;We had two puppies that had been abandoned  by a nearby railway line.  One was a Lakeland Terrier cross and another was a  Jack Russell Doberman cross.  They were tiny when they arrived at the centre and  Jasmine approached them and grabbed one by the scruff of the neck in her mouth  and put him on the settee.  Then she fetched the other one and sat down with  them, cuddling them.&#8221;<br />
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&#8220;But she is like that with all of our animals, even  the rabbits.  She takes all the stress out of them and it helps them to not only  feel close to her but to settle into their new  surroundings.</span></span></strong></div>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #804c19; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 13.5pt; color: #804c19;">&#8220;She has  done the same with the fox and badger cubs; she licks the rabbits and guinea  pigs and even lets the birds perch on the bridge of her nose.&#8221; </p>
<p>Jasmine,  the timid, abused, deserted waif, became the animal sanctuary&#8217;s resident  surrogate mother, a role for which she might have been born. The list of  orphaned and abandoned youngsters she has cared for comprises five fox cubs,  four badger cubs, 15 chicks, eight guinea pigs, two stray puppies and 15  rabbits.<br />
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And one roe deer fawn. Tiny Bramble, 11 weeks old, was found  semi-conscious in a field.  Upon arrival at the sanctuary, Jasmine cuddled up to  her to keep her warm and then went into the full foster-mom role.  Jasmine the  greyhound showers Bramble the Roe deer with affection and makes sure nothing is  matted.</p>
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<strong><span style="color: #804c19; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 13.5pt; color: #804c19;">&#8220;They are  inseparable,&#8221; says Geoff.  &#8220;Bramble walks between her legs and they keep kissing  each other.  They walk together round the  sanctuary.</span></span></strong><span> </span> <strong><span style="color: #804c19; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 13.5pt; color: #804c19;">It&#8217;s a real  treat to see them.&#8221;</span></span></strong></div>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #804c19; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 13.5pt; color: #804c19;">Jasmine will  continue to care for Bramble until she is old enough to be returned to woodland  life.</span></span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #804c19; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 13.5pt; color: #804c19;">When that  happens, Jasmine will not be lonely.  She will be too busy showering love and  affection on the next orphan or victim of abuse.</span></span></strong></div>

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