It’s Their World too—The Lulu and Lemon Story

Updated September 22, 2025

Lulu looks past us. Above us. Beyond us. Her eyes dart to the ground, searching desperately for a place to run. A place to hide. Somewhere, anywhere, safe for herself and her precious baby, Lemon.

What Lulu doesn’t yet know is that she has already found it. Sanctuary is here and safety rests in the walls that surround her, in the hay in the bowl before her and in the gentle eyes of the humans who mean her no harm. We whisper sweetly, “Don’t worry, our lovely. You’ve found it now.” But to Lulu, our words are as foreign as the kindness we offer.

Barely more than a babe herself, Lulu has already birthed one of her own—Lemon. A teeny, white soul with springs in her legs and mischief in her eyes. Watching her leap, one could well imagine her father was a Mexican jumping bean.

Lulu, too, is so tiny, a Saanen goat of the dairy breed. But unlike so many of her kind, she has escaped a life of servitude. Something in her stance tells us she longs to trust, but her past warns not to.

They are precious beyond precious and while our love for them runs deep, theirs for each other is deeper still.

Like so many before them, Lulu and Lemon slipped through the cracks of human care and landed in the local pound. Bewildered and unwanted, their future was uncertain. Though fate can often be fickle, this time it was kind, springboarding them to sanctuary.

Lemon does not yet bear the weight of human indifference shadowing her mumma, yet she eyes us warily—torn between her own curiosity and her mumma’s caution: “How could mumma be wrong?”.

And so, we hold space.

We stand with them in their beauty and their vulnerability. A part of us longs to embrace them, while another part knows their lives must be on their terms, not ours. Too much has already been taken by a society that casts animals according to our wants and not theirs.

And in recognising this, something in us shifts.

Animals like Lulu and Lemon remind us we need not remain who we were, as they invite us to become better. To see that we do not need to take from their lives to enrich or sustain our own.

Because we truly believe we can live happy and healthy lives without harming others.

After all, at the heart of everything, it’s their world too.