Hello, my name is Adam.
I came to the Sanctuary when I was about eight weeks old and have been here 28 months now. The start of my life was so horrendous that I really don’t want to talk about it but Janet said I should because it may help other lambs in the future – so I will. It was a very cold day when me and my sister were born. She was smaller than me and took a lot longer to stand up. Our mother was very weak after our birth, I think it had been a struggle for her and she was starving herself. She didn’t have the milk or the strength to feed both of us so my sister died. My mother died a few hours after that. This large animal came. It was red and covered in something different to fleece. I didn’t know what to do I just stood by my dead mother and sister. The large animal started to eat them I couldn’t stop it. I was terrified, stood alone with my family who were being eaten. I couldn’t blame the red animal. I think it was hungry too. I was certain that I would die, I had no one to feed me, and the large animal would eat me as well. Why had I been born? I couldn’t understand it.
Then what I now know as a man appeared. That terrified me too – so many traumas in one day. But he was a wonderful man, he picked me up and took me to his house – he was almost crying and he was angry too but not at me or the red animal. Then he brought me here in a noisy, warm metal box. I didn’t like that much but by that time I was feeling very weak, tired and actually wanted to die. Well, I am very happy to say that I didn’t die that day, how I don’t know and if that compassionate man had not intervened in my life I wouldn’t be here now to tell you my story.
After a couple of weeks Minnie and Jack arrived. I was feeling stronger then and it was great to have some chums of nearly my size and age to play with. Then Annie arrived from the same farm as me. I feel a special love for Annie. She has gone some way to replacing my dead sister who I only knew for a couple of hours. No one can replace my mum. I just wish so much that they could have come to the Sanctuary too.
Twenty eight months on and Adam has not only survived his ordeal but very much thrived. He is a large and happy sheep but still wary of strangers.
Please sponsor me.