Dearest Abby, as you fled that abattoir, propelled by fear and the smell of death that always hangs heavy in such places, adrenaline flooding your system, and a wide-open gaze becoming your eyes, you raced.

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

Proving that good things come in small (read 2kg teeny tiny, small) woolly packages.

Pure and honest with her emotions is sweet Hydie.

The plucky little Muscovy duck who found her true north, and prompted us to consider if we have found ours too.

On a bitter winter’s night, a cavalcade of kindness was formed to save a newborn lamb. 

Blinking with his one good eye, little Cluedo was without a clue as to what was about to happen to him.

“Hey, wait little lambie, you are going the wrong way…”

Naming her “Fern”, she touched us like no other.

With their black and white spots, these two pigs make an adorable and inseparable pair ready for adoption.

While we work to find who forgot Mrs. Magoo, we discover the list is as long as it is tragic.

In the early hours of today, dear Henry pig nestled into his straw bed and drew in a breath

With soft golden straw beneath him, and his best buddy beside him, dear Captain Jack could be forgiven for thinking he is in paradise.

It was the message we prayed we would never have to send – well, not for many a year anyway – to our team.

Little Valencia came into our world late yesterday. One look at her huddled form, and no words were needed to convey she desperately needed care. A little waif of a being whose history was as obscure as her future would have been, had kindness not found her.

Finding a word to describe yesterday, we land on “hopeful”.

Little did we know, on the first night we met Soldier, that the inky darkness of the sky above was to be foreboding of her fate. She, patiently waiting roadside with the humans who had come to her rescue after the vehicle collision that had rendered her immobile.

There is little doubt Brunswick is a beautiful bird. His magnificent plumage captures the eye, whilst the brilliant radiance of his comb and wattles sets the heart a-flutter.

Barely two days into this world were twin lambs, Simon and Cedric, when they entered ours.

Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep. But she has found her tribe…

Baarack the unbreakable despite 35.5kg of extra weight.

Yet despite all she has been through, Miss Clementine had not given up.

The pig who started it all.

RIP dear friend. He loves scratches under the chin as he drops both his eyelids and his guard, and melts off into blissful oblivion.

We take comfort knowing that sitting just beyond the all-consuming grief we are living, sits a field of beautiful, heart-warming memories.

Always cheerful and bright, Little Miss Sunshine tries to cheer up everyone around her and is everyone’s best friend.

Right from the get-go, little Hip-Hop strode forth to be a trailblazer.