Edgar’s Mission Passport

I Spy

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I Spy

Date of Entry

26th August 2022

Date Rehomed

29th August 2022

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Spying a kinder future for farmed animals

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I Spy’s story

I Spy…

Updated August 26, 2022

The lost little lamb reminding us of what lies deep within us all – the power to change, and create a world of joy and peace.

Spying that a kinder future should lie ahead for a little lost lamb, the call was made.

And although I Spy’s time here at Edgar’s Mission has been short, as she heads off to her forever home with the good folk at Victorian Lamb Rescue, it was enough to remind us yet again of the power of these diminutive beings.

Beings who can spark the best within us all through their vulnerability and their innocence.

For we humans can and sadly do (oft times unwittingly) commit unspeakable acts of cruelty and indifference to the animals we have labelled “farm” animals. Reducing them to production units, we have not only denied their sentience and their sensitivities, but we too have denied our ingenuity and our humanity.

And whilst our hardest lessons can come from realising that we are the instigators of pain and suffering in the world, they too can serve as our best, for they remind us that we, as beings of great power, are also beings of great wisdom and compassion.

And because of that we have a choice, for the world around us can become a manifestation of the beliefs we hold and the actions we do.

Holding true to this thought, we have no more potent reminder than that the world we spy is actually the one we are all active participants in. So whilst we can complain and we can protest, or we can write vitriolic speeches or offer venomous retorts to those whose ideas sit beyond those held by us, it should serve us well to appreciate that we are feeding a demon who does not warrant our energies or negativity.

So what then if it is true that the answer to this all is not to be found in the change we seek in others but something that lies deep within us all –

the power to change ourselves and create a world of joy and peace and live lives of great meaning and purpose.

Something that can be brought to the fore when we spy our own innate kindness reminding us that we are all connected: humans, non-humans and our glorious, wondrous and unique planet.

Thank you, little I Spy, for this gentle reminder, and thank you to the human who saw value in your being.

At just over one year of age, things were looking grim for Carlos. A sweet, albeit timid, young Boer goat, his immature body had taken a savage beating due to the insidious Barber’s pole worm. However, the most urgent of his woes, which far surpassed this, was a crunchy lump on his right thigh that told a crushed tibia bone lay painfully shattered underneath…

Meet this adorable and affectionate little lad named Rocky Balboa. Yet there are no fly kicks from him. In fact, the only thing that will hit you when you meet him is how endearing he is, and how undeserving he was of the dire fate he faced.

After being abandoned and almost hit by a car, these pigs were exhausted, underweight and covered in lice. But now this happy quartet have been given names synonymous with peace, as this is our promise for how they shall live out their days.

Ann, a sweet little doe-eyed heifer calf was recently spotted on our morning rounds. She was huddled in a tight ball in our tree plantation line, which separates this property from the next.

“Can someone please help me out I have a full grown female goat wanting to give away but marketplace won’t allow me to post…free of charge”.

Dust bathing for the first time in her 73-week life is Katie. Her “sister”, Kayla, eagerly watching on as her blind friend kicks dirt every which way.

When the cheeky young goat we have named Purr broke his leg in a remote community, things were looking grim.

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Amazing us all just recently was the arrival of four teeny tiny turkeys: Cornelius, Tofurkey, Curious George and Cheerio.

Planting the seeds of kindness were the sweet natures of Hawthorn, Poppy and Tulip, young sheep who touched the heart of a kindly pound worker.

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