Hello my name is Danny.

Hello my name is Danny and I am about three months old.  I’ve been here at the Sanctuary for two of those.  I was with my Mum in the field where I had been born when I was attacked by a dog.  Apparently the field had something called a public footpath in it.  It was very frightening, I can tell you, not to mention painful.  I shouted and shouted but the dog kept hold of one of my back legs. This man ran to help me.  He made the dog let go of my leg and put it on a lead.  Seemingly he owned the dog.  Then the first man took me to another man who looked at my leg and sewed up the gash the dog had made.  It was all very confusing and I was terribly anxious as I’d never had anything like this happen to me in my short life.  I ended up back at the farm where I had been born and the farmer told the man with the dog that he would shoot me anyway, whatever that meant, it didn’t sound too good judging by the way he said it.  So the man with the dog took me away from the farm and brought me here.  Some of the older sheep have since told me that I would have been killed by the farmer so I guess in a way that dog did me a favour.  When I first came here I was terrified after that experience and I missed my Mum and my friends.  I wouldn’t let anyone touch me let alone give me that rubbery thing a bottle.  I watched the other young lambs having one and being handled but no way was I going to do that.  I ate solid food and hay. Well, after the first two weeks I decided that this was a pretty decent place to be and that the people here were definitely not going to kill me or harm me in any way.  That goes for all the dogs as well especially that Puppa who told me not worry and that my leg would soon be good as new.  She was right.  A few weeks back I had my stitches removed, actually had my photo taken having that done and it was in the Slide Show on the website. My leg is back to normal now and its fun to be tickled and scratched by the humans.  I have two friends who are about a month younger than me – Bridget and Kazzy.  We have our own pen in the barn and when the weather is nice we go out to play and investigate in the small paddock in front of the kitchen window.  Rufus was in there under his shelter when he got heatstroke.  He told us a tale or two. We can visit the rabbits and the pigeons and the ducks and geese come to visit us.