Life on an animal sanctuary may seem like heaven, with a rooster crow at the break of dawn, fresh eggs for breakfast, kids visiting to pet the donkeys and romp with baby goats. But heaven couldn’t possibly require so much work.
Maybe too much work for some one who already has a full-time job, I thought one hot summer morning when I headed out to the barn. It was feeding time for the animals, even if I hadn’t yet had my breakfast.
I’d started Whispering Acres Farm Animal Sanctuary with one small barn and a pasture. I thought that was all I could handle, but the need was so much bigger. We’d expanded in response, and now had three pastures, a larger barn and a paddock. When I went out to the barn that morning,
