Billie
Dean’s Animal Whispers
February 2007
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In
this issue:
“Aunty”
Billie with Dingo Pup
First
Ever Path of the Wild Pure Heart retreat at Ballyoncree Animal
Hi everyone,
Another happy
New Year! 2007 is truly the year for miracles and I’m excited
about it! Plus I have such exciting news to share with you about
the shamans I’m studying with. Keep reading!! Plus, plus,
plus even more exciting is that I get to share my new knowledge
with you at my first ever Path of the Wild Pure Heart Rustic Retreat
to be held here at Ballyoncree Animal Sanctuary over Easter 2007.
Mark that date!
Not only will this be an opportunity for people to become skilled
in interspecies telepathic communication, but it is a transformative
and experiential workshop preparing you for the years ahead.
This is a very special event geared to nourish the heart and soul
at a very deep level. Meditating on the mountain where the wild
goats, kangaroos and eagles roam, drumming, inner journeying and
sacred story telling around the fire at night, opening up to your
creative, intuitive and psychic self, hands-on practise with all
the Ballyoncree animals, learning relationship skills, healing skills
and having fun with a sense of shared community. Younger people
welcome as well.
Traditionally Easter is a time of renewal and rejuvenation, and
this is what one of our threads will be. As most of you know, animal
communication for me is part of a wider framework of deep reverence
for all of life, walking the ancient path of the sacred. Walking
in Beauty.
For this course you need to register your interest early as accommodation
in Braidwood books up fast. For more details and a program email
me.
Billie
and Shamanic Teachings
I am
so excited to be the first Australian to receive special teachings
from the Inkan shamans, receiving nine initiations, the last of
which was only delivered last year in the Holy Mountains of the
Andes. More about this next month, but for now, let me say that
I will be able to transfer these initiations to my students, but
only by special arrangement and at Retreats. I am also embarking
on further studies in shamanic healing which I hope to help bring
to Australia in 2008.
Billie in Perth
Sylvana
and I are finalising details of my Animal Communication Intensive
in Perth, probably the weekend of March 24. So mark it in your diaries
and watch this space!
Miracles for Homeless Animals
Miracles
have been worked for homeless animals! Kath in Perth (above) is
delighted with Oscar the blind, diabetic fox terrier who has settled
in beautifully with her other dog Charlie. Roweena in NSW is out
of the pound and still looking for a forever home, last I heard,
but is safe in foster care. The 40 horses I talked about in December
were saved from the knackers. The two dingo pups I talked about
last month also found a fabulous forever home, which I visited.
I am thrilled to be an honorary aunty. (That’s me with one
of them at the top of this newsletter.) Jade tells me at around
40 dogs were re-homed from Canberra RSPCA last month (January 2007)
and that’s just a few of the good news stories. Well done
everyone!
While I often joke with my friends that I prefer animals any day
to people, I do see the spark in humanity. In all humanity. It’s
just that some humans need to find that humanity. They need their
light switched on. Humanity is about caring with compassion and
commitment. This is what Andrew and I put into practise on a daily
basis here at Ballyoncree. Every animal here is kin, and no decision
is made without their welfare in mind. (Even down to handing over
to the hay guy the envelope with $1,000 in it that I’d hoarded
for two years for our second honeymoon! Sigh!) I believe that in
so many cases, the animals help people find their compassion and
open their hearts. It’s time we heard their voice.
Sweet
Brothers Desperately Need Home Now
Here are a couple of sweet dogs who don’t deserve to die just
because they are sensitive and scared. I know there are great people
out there, especially in Canberra where these dogs are, who would
make fabulous guardians for these gentle dogs. They are in Canberra
RSPCA, but please contact Anne if you can help them as they are
on special reprieve till Wednesday, which means we really should
move them out on Monday. Even if someone only fosters them. Anne
will personally assist you and so will the RSPCA. Please open your
hearts, I know there is a special person out there who will help.
Anne’s email address is acowling@yless4u.com.au.
Here’s the letter she sent me yesterday:
Mack
and Buzza came into the RSPCA shelter last Friday (26 Jan 07).
They were surrendered by their owners because they were moving
to a smaller house. The dogs have spent their lives in a yard
with no interaction with strangers. They are devoted to each other.
Buzza adores his brother Mack (who is the slightly braver of the
two) and Mack constantly checks on Buzza to make sure he is OK.
Mack likes to lie down (I wont say sleep because I doubt either
of them have slept properly since they came to the shelter) with
his paw over Buzza's to protect his brother. The two boys are
devoted to each other and are absolutely terrified. They are not
aggressive in any way - even when completely cornered they have
never growled and their heckles have never risen. With gentle
coaxing the will raise their paws to great and Mack gives kisses.
They are gentle giants. They are excellent with other dogs. We
have had a female Dane X in with them that licked their faces
and jumped on their heads and they seemed to warm to her (she
was re-homed today so they have lost their girl).
The problem is that today these two dogs were going to be euthanased.
They will never pass the RSPCA's stringent tests and all I have
managed to do by kicking up a stink is to give them a stay of
execution until next Wednesday (7th Feb 07). I have spoken to
Michael Linke (CEO) who has agreed that if I can find a suitable
foster home in which to place these dogs then he will let them
go. I wish with all my heart that I could take them but my oldest
girl has become too aggressive to strange dogs and it just wouldn't
be fair. I'm really hoping and praying that someone on your circular
list might be able to open their home to these brothers. The arrangement
would be that the foster carer would introduce potential owners
to the dogs at their home - so they would not have to come back
to the shelter. I would be happy to transport the dogs anywhere,
to assist the foster carer with the dogs and to give them any
advice I can, including coming round to their home if they needed
me to do so.
The person/family would need to be a true dog lover. The dogs
would need to be inside and the carer would need to lavish them
with TLC to gain their trust before gradually introducing them
to new people and environments. It would help if they had other
social dogs, but would not be essential. They would need to be
patient, compassionate and just basically a special soul.
I truly believe these dogs deserve a chance at life. They are
not a threat to anyone. They want to be loved like any dog. Please,
please can you help.
I have attached pictures. The boys are about 18 months old and
are Rotti X - possibly with a Burmese mountain dog. Any foster
carer would be provided with food and blankets by the RSPCA.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
I can be contacted on 02 6236 3805 or 0428 230 961
Best Regards,
Anne Cowling
Billie
in the News
I recently appeared in the Saturday Daily Telegraph, and will be
in an upcoming feature in the March edition of Bark! There’s
also an article I wrote due out in a future Conscious Living.
Clients
I’m currently booked up about three weeks in advance and because
of other commitments, like teaching and studying., I won’t
be working full time on clients through March and April. So please
be patient. I do get to everybody. And I do try to do emergencies
ASAP.
In January, our attention has been sidetracked by the illness and
subsequent passing of our special needs horse Lady M. Also, my daughter
Tamsin was very ill, and also took round the clock nursing. Her
illness finally resolved when I removed the small dark entity of
a black dog – our Dylan, who passed last year and was holding
onto Tamsin’s grief.
New Year’s Resolutions
Did
you make any New Year’s Resolutions this year? Top of the
list for our family, was more family time and more fun.
As it is our 20th wedding anniversary, Andrew and I have decided
to have a second honeymoon this year which will be triply lovely
after the losses here at the Sanctuary, which have stretched our
hearts to the limit.
So this year our goal is to have a holiday – a honeymoon celebrating
20 years of blissful marriage – and a real break away from
healing and heartbreak. Yay. We are all sooo excited, To this end
I am determined to find the perfect Sanctuary sitter who can deal
with everyone’s different quirks and make me feel at peace
while I’m away. You people who love your animal kin will know
what I’m talking about! If you’re that person, please
email
so we
can talk about it.
Spiritual Cinema
For those of you who haven’t already heard, The
Secret will be screened on Channel 9, at 10.30 pm (NSW and Vic
time) on Saturday night (3 Feb 07). Tape it and watch it over and
over! (And of course, check your local listing to make sure of the
time it’s being shown in your part of the world.)
Conscious Film Urgently Needs
Patron/Sponsor
As you all know, Andrew and I make conscious films and our mission
here is to entertain, uplift. inspire and inform. Andrew and I have
started fund raising for our next doco Walking the Sacred, based
on my teachings of the Path of the Wild Pure Heart program.
This is going to be an awesome project that it is my intention people
will want to view over and over in order to fully integrate the
transformational information within. Funding is needed urgently.
Horses Rescued in the Netherlands
My friend Scott Alexander King passed this little heart warming
gem to me recently: Enjoy!
http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-4584913278289860160
Ballyoncree
Animal Sanctuary News
It’s
full moon today and as I write this, our rickety 100 year old timber
farm house is leaking as we enjoy a much needed summer downpour.
The thunder rumbles across the valley and water pelts down in sheets.
Thank-you Rain. I’ve found recently that when I begin to feel
the tension build to breaking point from the animals and the natural
world, that’s when Rain relieves us. And I believe more and
more is coming. Thank you!
Ballyoncree is tinged with green, but the paddocks are bare and
our hay shed is emptying fast as we hand feed the 27 horses in our
care. Today we bought another two loads of water and it’s
frustrating not to have tanks and dams taking advantage of these
downpours. This year they are at the top of the manifestation list!
Willow
You
will all be as thrilled as we are that Willow is currently enjoying
so much better health. Thanks to my very good friend Rosi Pletzer
of Vitality Health Centre in Canberra, we found her gall bladder
was completely off the planet and I have finally found a diet which
suits Willow while she heals. I also checked this with diet guru
Dr Ian Billinghurst.
My animal healer friend Susan Scott also feels Willow’s pancreas
is touchy – so the diet we have her on is apples, slippery
elm, and sheep’s milk yoghurt in the morning, and fresh fish,
pulped vegetables, yoghurt and slippery elm in the evening. Ian
has suggested we add in egg yolks and cottage cheese and pork. And
of course, even though she’s on potassium bromide, she is
also on numerous supplements and herbs to heal and support her digestion
and sensitive organs. (Thanks Linda, Natural
Care Company for special healing herbs.) She gets about four
meals a day and while slim, has calmed down and is coming back daily.
She’s even enjoying ball games with the other dogs again and
is really peaceful.
I have to thank Simon Rose of Theta
Magic for putting me in contact with the Distance Healers Network
whose support was invaluable when Willow had another nasty attack
of convulsions. This time she chewed up a metal dog dish and we
seriously thought we were going to lose her. Again. However that
was a while ago now.
Meanwhile I worked on the program Willow outlined for me, finding
Fairie Healing Techniques from the ancient Dagda . This was a very
joyous experience.
The
Passing of Pixie
A very
ill Pixie is watched over by concerned Samantha
Tamsin’s
Shetland pony, Pixie (on the left in the photo above) passed away
shockingly in October last year and I while have written about it,
it’s too painful for me to post yet. It was a nightmare of
undiagnosed confusion, of round the clock nursing in the stable
for four long days and nights watching her slide in and out of consciousness,
her seizuring on the ground, and of the local senior vet who was
“too busy” to come and later wrote us a letter saying
he now refuses to treat the animals in our Sanctuary because of
a difference in philosophy and “management procedures.”
We of course, are holistic,. He is not.
Now to an outsider, this might seem shocking. But instead of retaliating,
Andrew and I sat with our pain and confusion, until we reached understanding.
On a spiritual level, I can see the higher purpose of his actions,
which has propelled Andrew’s and my spiritual growth. With
no vet to turn to we have to find -- and own -- our healer within,
and be prepared for any emergency. Nothing happens in our life without
us somehow creating it. And sometimes situations are created to
help us move forward. I don’t know how or what thoughts we
had that created this situation, but it happened and we are not
victims.
The hardest thing for me is the innocent others who were hurt by
Pixie’s traumatic passing. Samantha insisted on visiting Pixie
every day in the stable and on the day Pixie died I found Sam just
outside , waiting for the verdict. When I told her Pixie had crossed
over (peacefully), Sam groaned and lay down, grief stricken. I begged
her not to leave us too. She’s taken time to find a new herd
to be with (she’s now with the special needs as the other
ponies are too fast and wild for her). She and Pixie were inseparable
and we all thought they would be Ballyoncree fixtures forever.
Tamsin was only 10 years old when she lost the pony we bought for
her for her 4th birthday. She’s philosophical about it saying
it was obviously Pixie’s time. But Pixie has left a hole in
everybody’s heart, and I find it difficult to be in the stable
or think about her. And Sam -- my heart squeezes every day as I
tend her, and Tamsin, Andrew and I make a special effort to spoil
her even more.
Sam keeping
a sudden summer chill at bay with her coat
Lady
M Passes
Lady
M when she was down for 18 hours.
Some
deaths contain great beauty in them, and Lady M’s was such
a one. She loved all the attention she was getting and healed on
so many levels that she constantly wore a beatific, peaceful expression
on her face.
Last time I wrote, she had cellulitis in one leg which was healing.
And then the other leg blew up. One day I opened the stable door
and said if she could, a little walking might be healthy for her,
to get everything moving. She smiled and tottered into the paddock
near the house. And then she went down. Andrew and I tried to help
her through the shock of not being able to get up again with acupressure
and remedies all through the night. And with the assistance of a
midnight call to Rebecca of Elementals
Equine Therapies who supported us for hours until we all decided
to call it a night. Andrew camped out in the paddock with Lady M
to protect her, and Rebecca packed her car and drove down to assist
us the next day.
Meanwhile I was gifted a healing for Lady M from Sarah James of
Theta Magic. Working together
we realised that Lady M, a brood mare, was grieving lost foals.
She kept showing me a small boy, patting her -- and the feeling
of tiny hands on her skin and we realised she transferred her maternal
feelings to children. She wanted Tamsin’s love. Tamsin had
been worried about being too close to her, because Lady M, sight
challenged, would often bump into people.
But now she was down. When Sarah cleared bottom line beliefs from
Lady M and the healing was complete, I called my family and we sat
outside in the sun preparing to do vigil until Lady M passed away.
Tamsin stroked her and gave her the child’s love she craved.
Her heart rate was up but she seemed hungry and we fed her energy
rich foods. About five or ten minutes after Sarah’s healing,
Lady M stood up and wandered back into her stable. She’d been
down for 18 hours.
We were elated. Her legs had shrunk back down to almost normal and
kept shrinking over the next couple of days. A true miracle!! Her
coat gleamed. On the Saturday night when she passed, two days later,
I went off to the house, knowing she was comfortable, enjoying a
meal, enjoying the comfort of her stable mates , happy and at peace.
She died that night and her gentle, maternal presence will be forever
missed.
Lady
M and Rebecca
Totem
the Goat
Uh,
oh – the pitter patter of little … hooves!!
I woke up one morning squashed in my bed by Andrew, four cats, four
dogs and a goat. A goat? Yes, we’ve been gifted with a baby
goat. He was new born when his mum left him which hurt me more than
I can say because I watched her make the agonising decision to leave
him. She’s one of the wild goats who have made a corner of
our property their home. I cried all day as we cared for the little
one left behind, but that night his mother came to me when my mind
was still. “I know you will give him a good life,” she
said. “I saw hay in your mind.” and she showed me a
picture of hay in a metal feeder I don’t possess but might
have been part of her previous life as these goats belonged to Sydney
weekenders who thought they would come when they were called and
not fencing them adequately was a great idea.
Totem, as we’ve called him, could barely walk when he was
born, and was fed from a rescue remedy bottle dropper before moving
onto a more regular teat. When I brought him over to the house paddock,
the brumbies, alpacas, dogs and cats all came running over. “What
has she now?” Everyone has treated him kindly.
We couldn’t leave him alone and popped him in a green shopping
bag to do the chores, carrying him around as I once carried Tamsin.
We were lucky he had had his colostrum, and I wondered about the
timing of this event, as I don’t believe in accidents.
Andrew looked at Totem wondering around the house on his little
legs and said rather tentatively, ”He will be an outside goat,
won’t he?” He looked at my face, a careful blank, and
laughed. “Perhaps a dog bed?”
These days I do yoga with a goat chewing on my ear while a puppy
or two chew on my feet or jump on my back. Totem loves coming for
a walk with the dogs as we shepherd the ponies and special needs
horses to the back hills every morning and then back for dinner
in the evening. He tosses his little head, jumps in the air and
sometimes falls over, picking himself up with a shake of his head
and gambols off again.
Now
that he’s a little older, he’s found himself adopted
by alpacas Zeeka and Benji who kindly share hay with him, and he
also likes to hang with the horses. At night, he lives in the house
with the dogs, finding himself a little “cave” under
a table, on top of a box, or on the floor next to our bed. If he
gets hungry, he climbs all over the desks and furniture and has
a tendency to pee if we still haven’t got the message.
We were in real trouble this week when a puppy chewed up the teat
for his bottle. Totem refused his milk from any other teat, until
we tracked down a replacement in a nearby town. He’ll be bottle
fed for a few more months yet. He puts a smile on our faces with
his antics and is very , very cute. Watch this space!
The
Puppies
The four younger dogs are all growing up intelligent and loving
and fast. They get on so well together and race around the property
like black bullets. The girls and Totem all went to our Canberra
vet for desexing, after long conversations about what it entailed.
Even so, Daisy was nervous and our vet brought out a new homoeopathic
formula for anxiety to trial on her. I was thrilled. They had all
their pre and post med homoeopathics and sailed through, healthy
and happy.
The new dog fence is only a partial success, keeping in Heyoka,
Willow, Cedar and Raffi. Sage leaps over it in a single bound, grinning
widely and the two pups sneak under the gate. Daisy was the first
to learn to go over, running up one of the wooden stays. But then
we fenced in the stay. Not to be deterred, she is determined to
be by my side, and soon found she could squeeze under the gate.
I love their energy and mischief!!
The
Cats
Every
morning one of our cats, Kobi (an Aboriginal word meaning medicine
man), sits on my chest. One day I asked him what he was doing. “Clearing
your energy fields,” came the reply. “Thank you, “
I said. As he has come to us with compromised kidneys, I spend every
morning, half asleep, sending him healing. It’s lovely to
know it is a two-way gift.
Lots of brumby news in the next issue, including the results of
the brumby naming competiton!
Gratitudes
So
much gratitude to the following supporters over the last several
months. We are truly grateful. THANK-YOU everyone. We really couldn’t
do the work we do in the holistic manner in which we do it, without
your support.
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Michelle, Clare, Jeanette, Patricia and Kath for much needed
financial donations at the perfect time when we really needed
help.
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Rosi Pletzer of Organic Nutrition for more amazing Fulhealth
colloidals, which we all use, including every single animal.
Thank you!!
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Brumby
sponsors Skye, Jeanette, and Diane. THANK-YOU. The brumbies
thank you. They know they are sooo special.
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Alpaca
sponsors Paul and Lynette, a big thank you from Benji and Zeeka!
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Lee of Natural Equipment, for seconds of natural horse gear
like horseman strings, leads, halters and communication sticks.
Awesome –Thank You. We use this kind of gear for all our
horses all the time. www.naturalequipment.com.au.
Free call: 1 800 081 541 or email: d.woodl@bigpond.net.au
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Giselle
Tonee (www.giselle-tonee.com)
with her tremendous son Jaedyn, for incredible hospitality in
Perth, for putting her life on hold, for helping man the stand,
for caring so beautifully for myself and my daughter, for being
an awesome friend – and for even doing our washing because
she knows we can’t.
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Nikki for giving up work to help on the stand and for her dog
family.
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Jackie for her amazing support in Melbourne, for driving me
everywhere and buying me dinner and lunch because she knew otherwise
I wouldn’t eat.
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Mountain Creek Health Food Store, for wonderful leftovers and
buckets that we now use as horse feed buckets.
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Linda from The Natural Care Company for brilliant herbs including
a general conditioner for special needs horses like Lady M,
herbal worming and a new pancreatic healing support for Willow,
and other goodies like a brilliant Manuka honey spray and Arnica
spray. And more Neem oil which we use for mange outbreaks, and
all sorts of other things, and even an adrenal support herb
mix for me Brilliant. Thank you! www.naturalcare.com.au,
enquiries@naturalcare.com.au.
Phone: 02 90115656.
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Rebecca Booth of Elementals Equine Therapies (www.elementals.com.au,
enquiries@elementals.com.au)
for being on the other end of the phone in the middle of the
night, for coming down to assist when we really desperately
needed an extra hand when Lady M was sick, for the donations
of sales from her amazing rice bran oil, and also for more donations
of her awesome herbs for horses like garlic, rosehips, chamomile,
clivers, calendula, eyewash and more.
Melinda and The Distant Healers Network for all their incredible
support for Willow and Pixie.
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Sarah James of Theta Magic (www.thetamagic.com)
for donating a consult for Lady M, after which she walked, after
being down for 18 hours.
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Susan Scott (email)
for continued healing support.
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Pet Power (www.petpower.com.au)
for their donations of their awesome homeopathic first aid kits
and homoeopathic treatments for worming, heart worm and flea
and tick, which I am never without and have been using for years
and years. Ph: 02 9930410
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Tracey Durr and her wonderful family for raising $150 at a HENCAST
(home school) event.
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Paula Moss for raising $70 in a raffle for Ballyoncree which
immediately went on a bottle of herbal worming. (www.paulamoss.com.au),
and also for donating a CD to my fundraising raffle.
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Lucy Cavendish for donating her new book White Magic and The
Oracle Tarot for my fundraising raffle (www.lucycavendish.com).
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Barry Moody for his donation of Neways brilliant Optimal Plus
for Dogs, Cats and Horses. cooee@orroroo.com
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Armande of Braidwood’s The Washing Mill for organising
second hand towels and linen from the Arulen pub.
We were able to donate five bags of food, towels and bedding to
Australian Cattle Dog Rescue. Yay!
Ballyoncree
Wish List
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An open-minded, caring horse and small animal vet in Braidwood.
This lovely, State Heritage listed town and the surrounding
villages are under-serviced in veterinary care. And we, at Ballyoncree,
are not serviced at all. So vets out there – take note.
We need you. This is a serious request. Email.
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Ballyoncree Animal Sanctuary Animal Nanny/Manager. You work
hard, love animals, are holistic, capable, committed and loyal.
You can take over from us when we go away and make our lives
so much easier when we are at home. You are an integral part
of the Ballyoncree team. You are awesome. Thank you. We need
you to manifest in the next couple of months,. Thank you Spirit,
for sending us the perfect person/people, at the perfect time,
with the perfect funding, for the good of all concerned. Interested?
Email.
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Sponsors.
We’re so grateful for the people who sponsor animals here
at Ballyoncree. Even a $2 per week or $10 per month donation
makes a huge difference to our ability to provide the kind of
care we give to all the animals here. If you’ve been thinking
about coming on board as a sponsor (or even if you haven’t),
why not pop over to the donations
page and have a look. The animals will thank you for it.
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Volunteers.
Help with fencing and shelter building, etc.
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Tipis
for conference and accommodation
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Materials for horse shelters
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Hay and donations to hay fund.
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Water,
dams, and water tanks.
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Stainless steel dog bowls
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Herbal and homoeopathic worming, plus a solution to bots.
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Horse feed (as natural as possible)
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Garlic for dogs and horses
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Kelp for dogs and horses
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Apple cider vinegar for dogs and horses
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Dolomite for horses
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Probiotics for horses
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Vet wrap, cotton wool, and all things wound dressing
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Injectable vitamin C , plus syringes.
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Fly
veils for horses, all sizes. Our three special needs especially
need these and if Jaffah doesn’t have one she puts her
head in a drum. Very funny to see.
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Natural Dog shampoo
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Agility equipment for dogs
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Tennis Balls for dogs
Essential Oils, especially Young Living., ph 07 3715 7333 like
Thieves, Peppermint, Peace and Calming, Joy, Lavender etc. You
can use my sponsor/enroller number when you buy: 770582
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Fullhealth colloidals – chromium, magnesium, silver, the
whole range – we use this brand for EVERYBODY. Awesome.
Thank you!!
With love, light and laughter
Billie Dean
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