January 2005

Call from London regarding information on Word (the dog who lived in freedom at Pigs Peace Sanctuary) for the 2006 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest dog incarceration while at Seattle Animal Control. Feral cat Tommy died. Work party. Numerous calls regarding pigs in California. Elementary & middle schools to visit. Conservation district here. Cold days, water frozen.

February 2005

To California to asses pig situation. I am horrified and commit to take large group. Met Ingrid Newkirk of PETA. Alice the Chicken died. New gutters on barns. Pig Tammy died. Starbucks work party helped spread four truck loads of cedar chips. Sadie the dog to vet for extensive medical care. Boots the cat died. Animal Fair magazine to do article on sanctuary. Large 100 year old trees pruned.

March 2005

Pig Viva arrives. Very shy of people and in quarantine from surgery. Chef Francis Janes cooking class in Seattle to benefit sanctuary. Western School group to visit. Winter mud everywhere. Work party to spread many loads of cedar chips. Call regarding Barbados black bellied sheep. Call regarding Wilbur the pig. Wilbur added to waiting list. Vet comes to sanctuary to treat pigs too big to travel to clinic, including Ben the pig for oral surgery. Ben needs quarantine for soft food diet, 2 weeks. Holly pig to vet, hole in her mouth / soft palette. Trapper the cat to vet, end stage liver failure.

April 2005

Eight pigs to vet, tusks trimmed. Lake Stevens service project for sanctuary. Home school group visits. Mark Ring starts production of the Pigs Peace Sanctuary documentary. Holly the pig died. Western High School group here. Judy gives presentation about the sanctuary to university group. Harvey the pig arrives. Newsletter to printer. Topsoil delivered. Sanctuary on KING TV, NW Afternoon. Many follow up calls from show. Senior Center group visits. Update on transportation of California pigs required health certification. To Bainbridge Island to check out possible rescue home for 12 of the California pigs. Chester the pig has leg infection. Isolating in the woods far from the barn. Joey Dickens the pig (Chester's best friend) stays with him. Many daily injections of meds. Food and soy milk to him 3 times each day.

Word

Viva

Chester & Fern