Hello my name is Badger.

Hello my name is BADGER and I am three years old.  I have been at the Sanctuary for most of my life.  Janet went to pick up some straw from a local farm, my home as a lamb.  Our herd of mothers and lambs had been rounded up to go for slaughter, but me and three of my friends knew that something was wrong so we had managed to evade the farmer.  It wasn’t easy I can tell you.  We were terrified seeing our mothers and friends treated like that.  Happily for the four of us one of the Sanctuary supporters gave Janet the money to buy us as she thought that for all our efforts at escaping we deserved to be spared.  I don’t think the farmer saw it quite like that but he was happy to take the money wherever it came from.  Perhaps he was glad to be rid of us as we had caused him such a problem – we did our best!  So we came here.  A few weeks later this sheep from next door told us she was thinking of jumping the fence to join us as we got treats and she didn’t.  We told her it was fantastic here and that she should jump.   So she did bringing her two lambs with her.  At first she was kept in a separate paddock to us but I remembered my own mother and I missed her so I decided to join Brodie, as she is now called, and her two lambs.  I managed to negotiate the kissing gate to get into her paddock.  Janet seemed surprised I had done this but then I was the leader of the Great Escape from the farmer and   had honed my skills on him.  Brodie and I have become very close companions, we are together constantly and we would like to stay that way.  I don’t want to escape from the Sanctuary.  Please sponsor me.