West Coast Maremma Rescue

Please support and share our fundraiser for our farm sanctuary utility. It is vital to our work of rescuing, rehabilitating, rehoming and providing sanctuary to dogs that need permanent care. We have raised $5000 of our $10500 target. Thank you to everyone that has donated. Any amount is appreciated as we understand the difficult economic times we are living in.

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Kaya having a great time on the farm. Kaya is a beautiful girl who will be available for adoption in the future. Follow Kaya's journey with West Coast Maremma Rescue

Great news! We have a wonderful Foster home on 5 acres for Simba mid August, so he will come to the farm first. He will have an older Maremma girl as a companion. Thank you Rachael and family for offering your home to the big boy 💙

We haven't found a foster carer for Simba, so he will be coming to the farm. What's another dog when I aready have 17? I have a wait list. Dogs needing to come into care, but there is only one of me. I am struggling. There are days so overwhelming I don't know how I can continue. I am doing this on my own. Herniatied discs causing much pain. Health issues where I struggle to get out of bed. Depression, exhaustion. I keep hoping help will come my way. That someone in the universe has the same love and commitment I have . I feel isolated, alone. I have been taken advantage of, because people know I rarely say no. I don't often share personal feelings. It is my love for these misunderstood, but beautiful, sentient, loving dogs that drives me to continue. But sometimes I feel so alone.
I feel undeserving when I put up posts for donations and help. I live on my own and work full-time with the dogs, voluntary. It is a love job. The best job I have ever had. I rely on passive income and savings to live. I am grateful for the Rescues wonderful supporters, without your financial help, I would not have been able to continue. But it is hard. I can't visit my son and his family in Finland, my sister in the USA, be at school assembly's with my grandchildren. And the loss. The continued grief of losing dogs from old age. Dogs that came into permanent care, but were more than dogs. They were my family. Grief everytime I say goodbye to dogs when they leave for their new homes. On one hand, I am happy they have a wonderful home, but I still feel loss. We have done much together and learnt from each other. They each take a piece of me with them.
How grateful I am though. They have given me their trust, and given me purpose and a feeling of self worth that I never had before, knowing I am doing some good in this mad, scary world. I feel safe with them. They are my companions and my best friends, but I am human, and feel the stresses of life like everyone else

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