1000 Large Animals Need Your Help

I've just contributed to help feed 1000 large animals at the Montana Large Animal Sanctuary located in remote ranch land 15 miles north of Hot Springs and east of Elmo. It's a 400 acre sanctuary which has been run by Brian and Kathryn Warrington for the last 15 years. Their main sponsor was unable to keep supporting this sanctuary, and now they are out of money and unable to feed 1000 large animals, consisting of llamas, horses, cattle, camels, bison, emus, pot-bellied pigs, burros, miniature donkeys, cavies and more.

If interested (and in the Christmas spirit), you can donate to provide food for these animals at www.animeals.com. Just click on the button that says "Donate to Animeals". They need 4 tons of hay A DAY to feed all of the animals, and as those of us to own horses know, that doesn't come cheap.

(This is one of the Donkeys -- their feet haven't been trimmed in several years, as you can tell)



Here is a short article taken from the web site of NBCMontana.com:

KALISPELL, Mont. -- The Montana Large Animal Sanctuary is shutting down, and other animal shelters across Montana are working together to take over its responsibilities. The shelter is home to more than 1,000 animals, mostly livestock, but the managers say they don’t have the funds or resources to continue their care of the animals.

Board member and founder Brian Warrington says they ran into financial trouble when the main donor stopped providing funding. His ex-wife, also a board member, was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis around the same time, and his care for her cut into the time he gave to the sanctuary.

“This place is so big, and there’s so much to be done, and it wasn’t possible for the number of people here to do it,” says Karren Moltzen, founder of AniMeals, a non-profit that provides food to animals in need.

AniMeals is just one of a number of animal shelters and rescues that are taking over the Montana Large Animal Sanctuary until new homes can be found for its animals. "My plea to the public is to keep the donations coming so we can keep the animals fed until we can get them taken care of," Moltzen says.