New Sanctuary Location: Video 2

Video of the New Sanctuary in Grover!

Check out our article on Best Friends Network

Thank you to Rita for helping us to spread the word!

http://network.bestfriends.org/colorado/news/24216.html

Bandit Needs a Home!

Well, Bandit is down on her luck (again) and she doesn't know why. She's hoping to get lucky FOREVER this time.

Here's her story:

"Hi, my name should be Mushy Love Girl Bandit 'cuz that's who I am. I was down on my luck a few years back when my unfeeling person dumped me in the Buckhorn Canyon to fend for myself. I didn't have any practice doing this as my only experience was being a loyal and loving dog. But good fortune found me and my buddy and we both found new homes. So I loved my new family with all my might. I am quiet and like to follow my person around and just lay down quietly near them...this makes me feel good and I hope my loving companionship makes my person feel good too! All was going very well for 5 years but then the children grew up and moved away and now, much to my heart break, my adult people don't want me anymore. No one deserves to lose their home...much less twice. I am ready made. I am house trained, mature and have good manners. Given a preference, little kids aren't really my bag...even though I do OK. I don't want to be all alone during the day so it would be the cat's meow (terrible metaphor) if I could keep company with someone who works from home or is retired. Also, steps are easy but jumping in a car is a bit difficult. I promise I will love and be loyal to whoever wants me forever."

As you can hear, it is a sad story. I ask each of you to please search your heart and database for Bandit's final home. She deserves to get lucky forever.

Thank you,

Amy

Amy Burgess
(970) 215-3528
ABlive@aol.com

New Babies!

Howard and Robbi, Named for Channel 4's reporter and camera person are now five days old and doing great, their momma was part of the nine goats rescued together with Dreampower Animal Rescue of Colorado Springs.

Grover Property, New Photographs

The following are just a few of the more recent photos taken of the Grover property we are working to purchase. There are shelters located on the property, but we did not have room to add them here. This is a very nice, low-maintenance facility, a lot of farm equipment is coming with the property. We have raised $30,000 so far towards our $60,000 goal. Please keep it coming and help to close this gap! We have only a couple of weeks left to make this happen. This facility is located on 640 acres.

To donate, visit www.denkaisanctuary.org

9 Goats In Need Find Sanctuary

Nine goats from Colorado Springs have found Sanctuary at Denkai. These goats were becoming neglected due to owner depression issues. He started with three goats and ended up with 8. These goats have not had a lot of handling, so were pretty wild when they first entered our Sanctuary, but have calmed down tremendously, 5 of these were bucks and have been castrated thanks to the Help of Dr. Barb Roberts of Loveland, CO. The three females are all very pregnant and due any day for kids. We are looking for homes for the male goats in a couple of weeks.

Miracle 7 Horses, Before and After

Latest Sanctuary video

Missouri Puppies Updated, still need foster homes

The following are photos of puppies still in need of foster homes, as we have people fostering, we will try to update this post, please bear with us! Call Floss at: (970) 217-1457 for directions to the facility and questions!

Thank you!

22 Missouri Puppies in Need!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Denkai Animal Sanctuary
Floss Blackburn
(970) 217-1457
www.denkaisanctuary.org

22 Missouri shelter puppies have been sentenced to die by lethal injection.

Denkai Animal Sanctuary of Carr, CO is working together with Colorado
Animal Rescue Express, a Denver Based transport organization along with
rescuers in Missouri to save the lives of these precious babies.

Denkai needs help from the public in providing foster homes for these
puppies until they can be spay/neutered and homes found for them. The
Sanctuary estimates that this will take two to six weeks to accomplish.

Photos of the puppies in need can be viewed on our blog at:
http://denkaisanctuary.blogspot.com/ with brief descriptions. We will have
more detail when the puppies arrive. How many the Sanctuary will be able
to help depends on the number of foster homes available.

For more information: Contact us at: info@denkaisanctuary.org or Call (970)
897-3122. The website can be viewed at: www.denkaisanctuary.org

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An Aussie Named Mandy

Mandy is a one year old Australian Shepherd dog. She had the unfortunate luck of ending up at a rural shelter in Missouri where she birthed nine puppies. She was tagged as aggressive by kennel workers who stated she had bitten one of them and had a previous bite history to boot.

Rescue groups quickly dove into the task of relocating Mandy and all of her puppies to a rescue or sanctuary where they would all be safe. The puppies were three weeks old at this point, shelter workers were happy to pull them off mom and send them to Denkai Animal Sanctuary, but mom had to die
because she had a bite history. This is around the time they decided to
stop feeding Mandy because they were going to euthanize her anyway, so
what difference did it make that she was still nursing nine puppies who
were going to literally suck her dry.

Rescue and Sanctuary organizations dove into the task of rescuing mom and
looking for proof of her so called bite history, none could be found. With
the help of lawyers, the shelter finally released her to to our Sanctuary.

Mandy, a full-sized Australian shepherd, weighed in at just 35 lbs, skin
and bones, malnourished and still incredibly sweet. She allowed handling
of her babies with no issue, gave us kisses and is very well behaved.

Unfortunately, one of her puppies had to stay behind, the littlest one,
Lucy was found soaked in her water dish, where workers had left her for 16
hours without picking her up and drying her off. She lived. For the past
week she has been at a veterinary hospital in Kansas receiving treatment.
She will be arriving on a transport to Denver for our Sanctuary to pick her
up Saturday night. She is blind and we have word, deaf. We have had
enormous success placing dogs like this in homes and believe that Lucy too
will have a wonderful home awaiting her when the time comes that she makes
a full recovery.

In the meantime, due to mineral deficiencies, the second smallest puppy of
the litter was having seizures for two days, finally with proper
supplements, we the seizures have stopped and this precious baby is doing
excellent here at the Sanctuary.

Mandy and her puppies can be viewed on our website at: http://denkaisanctuary.blogspot.com/

Foster homes are needed for the other 8 puppies as soon as possible. If
you are interested in helping us to care for these special babies,
donations can be sent via www.denkaisanctuary.org or to: Denkai Animal
Sanctuary 10375 WCR 118 Carr, CO 80612. Donations of Esbilac, blankets,
towels, a vaccum cleaner, and cleaning supplies are also needed.

Miracle the Paralyzed Pig

Summer 2007 Sanctuary Video

Denkai Animal Sanctuary Video

Snow is Here, We need your Help!

Once again this year, we are snowed in! The 150 animals that call this home, need your help, act now, don't leave them without hay and grain this Christmas! The horses and other livestock residing here have been through terrible traumas; abandonment, starvation, beatings, neglect, the list goes on and on, thanks to your contributions, they are safe now. Help us keep them that way!

Dedicated workers spend more than 5 hours feeding and watering these animals on a daily basis. This is made possible by donation of a tractor by John and Eileen Connell and our 4WD Pickup truck Donated by DCP Midstream. These are two incredibly important tools, that we can not afford to be without in these winter months when feeding these animals.

We once again need to raise funding in the amount of $2,700.00 for hay here at the Sanctuary, we have managed to bring in two semi loads on our own since your last donations, but once again need your help, please don' t leave these animals hungry, this is our largest need here, the animals can not go without it. Our load of hay is en route right now from Montana and will be offloaded here Wednesday assuming the weather clears a little.

To donate: vist our website at www.denkaisanctuary.org and click any donation button or mail donations to: 10375 WCR 118 Carr, CO 80612 care of Denkai Animal Sanctuary.