Helping Donald the Crippled Rooster and Harvest Home Sanctuary

by Stephanie Ernst · 2009-11-12 15:02:00 UTC
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It seems that once every couple months, I learn about another growing or small animal sanctuary that I previously didn't know existed. And this is always a lovely surprise. This time, it's the Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary in California, which I learned about via Marji of Animal Place Sanctuary (and of the Animal Place blog).

One of Harvest Home's residents (you can meet the others here) needs surgery. His name is Donald. He hatched into a first grade classroom as a project -- and he emerged from his egg with deformed legs. When Harvest Home first met him, "one of his legs was splayed at a 90 degree angle, while the other leg was supported with curled toes." He was only four months old, yet "his daily routine was a struggle. A struggle to reach food and water. A struggle to stay clean. A struggle to move without thrashing around." So Donald needs surgery, expensive surgery.

Sanctuaries, especially new, small, or not-well-known sanctuaries, are not awash in money. But that doesn't change how much the animals for whom they care need and deserve help and the best medical care possible. If you'd like to help this growing sanctuary -- if you'd like to help raise the funds that will allow Donald to get his surgery -- you can donate here. I know that there are far more individual animals in dire need of help than I could document here -- than scores of us could document here -- even if every hour of the day were devoted to that task. But it's good to acknowledge them, and help them, as individuals whenever we can. Best of luck, Donald.

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Photo courtesy of Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary

Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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