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The Catskill Animal Sanctuary: A Green Haven for All - P1/2
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Greetings,
cheerful viewers,
and welcome to
Animal World:
Our Co-Inhabitants.
Today we’ll travel to
New York, USA’s
picturesque Hudson Valley
to visit the loving
Catskill Animal Sanctuary,
founded by
former teacher and
animal advocate
Kathy Stevens and
Jesse Moore.
Ms. Stevens has written
a book about this special
place called “Where
the Blind Horse Sings:
Love and Healing
at an Animal Sanctuary.”
Located in the
Catskill Mountains, the
40-hectare haven is home
to farm animals who
have been rescued from
cruelty and neglect.
Since its establishment
in January 2001,
the Sanctuary has saved
over 1,500 animals,
with some now
living permanently
at the facility and
the rest having been
successfully re-homed.
We have right now
about 250 animals from
12 different species.
We’re a sanctuary
for farm animals, so
we have horses, donkeys,
pot-bellied pigs, sheep,
goats, cows, ducks,
chickens, geese, rabbits
and turkeys.
Right now we’ve got
about 20 to 30 of
every different species.
We’ve got about
30 horses;
we’ve got 20-some cows.
We’ve expanded a lot
in the last year,
new pastures, new barns.
We’ve got a lot more
room right now for
the middle-sized animals,
pigs, sheep and goats.
Kathy Stevens, a vegan,
grew up on a horse farm
in Virginia, USA and
has always had a special
connection with animals.
Deciding to follow
her heart’s call to help
our gentle fellow beings
in need, she made
a pivotal career change
some years back.
I had been a teacher for
10 years, a high school
English teacher, and
I was offered a job as
the principal of a new
high school opening in
Boston, Massachusetts
(USA) and I found myself
turning the job down.
And I thought, “Hmm,
what do I want to do
for the rest of my life?”
And so I took some time
off and I really did some
very serious searching.
I took lots of long walks
in the woods with my dog
Murphy, I spoke with
friends and finally
what came to me was that
I wanted to combine
the love that I’d always
had for animals and
my knowledge that
they’re really not so
very different from
human beings with
my passion for education
and my belief that
education,
if it’s done properly,
is a transformational
experience, and so
from those two passions
the idea of running
an educational sanctuary
was born.
With passion
and determination,
Ms. Stevens created the
Catskill Animal Sanctuary,
a safe, healing place
for abused and
abandoned farm animals.
What we do at Catskill
Animal Sanctuary is
let a number of animals
free range,
which means they walk;
they’re not confined
in pastures or stalls.
They walk anywhere
they would like on this
big piece of property.
And the reason we do that
is because we believe
it’s so important
for every animal to heal
in his own way
and at his own pace.
Through workshops
and school programs,
the Sanctuary provides
opportunities for people
to learn about
and understand
the sentient nature of
our fellow beings, and
the severely detrimental
impacts of factory farming
on animals, humankind
and our precious,
shared planet.
We offer this place as a
facility for school groups
from underprivileged
communities to
come without charge.
And we create different
programs depending on
the kids’ backgrounds,
ages, interests, etc.
I also go all over the state
as a speaker, primarily
to schools because I’m
very interested in working
with school children.
So those are some of
the ways that people can
take part in what we do.
Surprisingly
the farm animals at
Catskill Animal Sanctuary
do not necessarily
come from rural areas.
Some come from the
largest metropolis in the
US – New York City!
People who find animals,
and many of our animals
do come from Manhattan
(New York City),
goats wandering around
the streets, and ducks
and chickens; many of
our sheep, goats, ducks
and chickens have come
from New York City,
interestingly.
We try to take
every single animal
we have room for.
We’ll do our best,
either to take them in
or to find
a suitable placement.
Now let’s meet some
of the joyful animal
residents of the Catskill
Animal Sanctuary.
This is Lumpy.
Lumpy is a Merino sheep,
he’s a very, very
old sheep.
He and his friends, Aries
and Hannah and Rambo
enjoy the whole property
all day long.
Normally, they’re
much more active but
because it’s cold today,
they all hanging out
in here where it’s warmer.
Hi Lump, hi, Lumpster.
Say “Hi, hero!”
say “Hi, hero!”
“Welcome to Catskill
Animal Sanctuary!”
All of these animals
are quite good friends.
The two chickens are
Cheyenne and Barbie,
both of whom
the poultry industry
refers to as “broilers.”
Because they’ve been
made to grow so quickly,
they become
very overweight and then
they suffer
all the health problems.
Same with the two turkeys,
Nicole and Agent 44.
These birds in a normal
environment should
live well into their teens.
Alright,
I’ll give you a scratch;
I’ll give a scratch.
This is Charley our
senior pot-bellied pig.
And this animal right here,
the most amazing
animal I’ve ever met,
I’ll tell you lots of stories
about Rambo.
Hi, Rambo.
When we return,
Kathy Stevens will share
with us how the highly
intelligent Rambo saved
the lives of his friends.
Please stay tuned to
Supreme Master
Television.
I always had that chance
to connect in a deep way
with animals, so animals
have been my life and an
important part of my life
since I was about
two years old.
I love these animals;
I am surrounded by love!
I feel like I’m really
the luckiest person alive,
and love lives here,
and that’s what counts.
Welcome back to
Animal World:
Our Co-Inhabitants.
Today we’re visiting
the Catskill Animal
Sanctuary, located
in New York,
USA’s Hudson Valley.
The haven was
co-founded by vegan
animal advocate and
author Kathy Stevens.
Ms. Stevens now shares
her most memorable
experience with one of
the Sanctuary’s animals.
The most remarkable
animal, certainly
the one I consider
my greatest teacher, is
an animal named Rambo.
He has these great,
curled horns like this;
they probably weight
20 pounds apiece.
Rambo was our first
free range animal.
Rambo sleeps in the middle
of the barn every night,
he has his special bed.
I go to the barn
every night to check on
the animals, and I went
into the barn one night
and I said “hallo”
to everybody; Rambo
was there in his bed,
I didn’t notice that
anything was wrong, so
I came back to the end
of the barn and I said,
“Good night, animals!”
Rambo gets up from
his bed, runs up to me,
looks at me, “Baaaaa.”
And I said, “Tell me
what’s wrong.”
Because he might
as well have said,
“Something’s wrong!”
He turned around,
he walked halfway down
the barn, and he walked
into this empty stall to
tell me that the turkeys
were not in the stall.
We had left them out;
it was a cold, bitter
November night.
They would have spent a
miserable night outside.
I couldn’t believe what
I had just witnessed.
I went, got the turkeys,
brought them in,
dried them off,
and I was weeping.
He knew
something was wrong.
He found a way to tell
a human being.
He knew that I would
help them or he wouldn’t
have gone to this effort,
which told me that
he truly understands
what Catskill Animal
Sanctuary is all about.
He cared about the
well-being of two animals
of a different species.
That was maybe the
most remarkable thing
I have ever experienced
in my entire life, and it
completely changed me.
And it made me
understand that
the problem is not that
animals are limited or
even so very different
from us, the problem is
that we don’t slow down
enough to take the time to
see them for who they are.
So nobility, courage,
compassion;
absolutely you see that
in a lot of them.
He’s the most
extraordinary, as I said,
teacher I’ve ever had.
Under the affectionate
care of the Catskill
Animal Sanctuary staff,
animals of different species
live together happily,
sharing an abundance
of love with one another.
The warmth of this true
kinship extends beyond
shape, color and size.
We’ve got
a free range horse,
many free range pigs,
many free range ducks,
chickens, sheep
and turkeys.
And we have found that
absolutely they form
friendships across species.
We have two chickens
and two turkeys who
really love each other.
We have a sheep and
a pig who fall asleep
together in a bed of hay.
So, just like human beings
have learned that
superficial differences,
like race and gender
don’t matter,
animals figure out that
species doesn’t matter,
it’s much more about
a connection that’s
much deeper than that.
In 2007, Kathy Stevens
released her first book,
“Where the Blind Horse
Sings: Love and Healing
at an Animal Sanctuary,”
which depicts a world
where distinctions
between “human” and
“animal” disappear
and care and affection
overcome years
of neglect and abuse.
I had to write the book
because I didn’t know
that a former fighting
rooster would hop into
my lap and fall asleep.
I didn’t know that
he’d want to eat lunch
with us every day.
I didn’t know that
on a cold night when
I had to bring him up
to the house because
he couldn’t be with
the other roosters that he
would crow his head off,
until I put him in my bed
because he wanted
company!
And so I had to write
the book, I had to tell
those stories that
changed my life, because
I think if people saw
these animals as so few
get the opportunity to do,
then maybe it will
encourage a few people
at least to start to say,
“Well, if this is who
they are, do I really
want to eat them?”
So that’s why
I wrote the book.
A lot of times I get emails
from people saying, “I
became vegetarian
after I read your book.”
And I think
our job is very simple;
the animals are the ones
who convince the people,
we just have to get people
to read the book,
or to come here and
connect with the animals.
We applaud Kathy Stevens
for saving the lives
of so many of our
vulnerable animal friends.
May all people similarly
choose to always show
kindness to animals and
adopt the vegan lifestyle.
For more details on
the Catskill Animal
Sanctuary, please visit
“Where the Blind Horse
Sings” is available at
Graceful viewers, we
enjoyed your company
on today’s program.
Please join us tomorrow
on Animal World:
Our Co-Inhabitants for
the second and final part
of our interview
with Kathy Stevens.
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