Wolf Den Holistic Farm Rescues
We are the Baker Family and we live on a 55 acre rental property in North Georgia. We moved from IL to GA in June 2014. We have three children under the age of five who are just as much animal lovers as we are. We spend our days taking care of our critters, tending to the garden, and being out in Nature. Moving to Georgia was wonderful but also shocking at the same time to see how animals are treated or should we say neglected and abused. Never in our lives have we seen so many loose dogs, dogs stuck together mating on the side of the road, numerous cases of equine neglect, and so many more incidences that just blew us away at how horrible and ignorant humans can be. In September 2014 we took in our first rescues. Two donkeys, Graden and Gracie, who were living in another county, tied to trees, starving. With the help of their neighbor and the neighbors friend we were able to get them transported to our home. Graden who was intact was vaccinated and gelded to make him a safe pet ($300). Jack donkeys can be very dangerous and should always be gelded unless being used for breeding, and well, that's another topic for another day. Gracie was underweight and pregnant, and delivered a beautiful white spotted donkey colt, Freddie, on October 28th, 2014. A month and a day after they came to Wolf Den Holistic Farm. October-December 2014 we spent a lot of time and energy trying to finance a 14 acre property in a local town so that we could establish our homestead/working farm and rescue the many, many desperate animals in our area. We were unable to obtain financing due to the condition of the home on the property. Because we had not been able to purchase our own land before the New Year we decided to place the donkeys up for adoption so that they could go to forever homes. Shortly after Christmas, Gracie and Freddie moved to another farm to have a forever home on a beautiful goat farm. Graden was adopted earlier this month and is now living in South Carolina with 3 other donkeys, 3 horses, and will hopefully be used as a children's equine therapy companion. We are so proud of him. Since the donkeys found their forever homes, we have taken in two puppies. Rocco, a boxer mix, whom was being given away at 4 weeks of age and needed to be bottle fed, weaned, and introduced to kibble. We paid for puppy milk, deworming costs, and will be paying for his vaccinations, neuter procedure, and all other costs. The second puppy we just took in yesterday. He was dumped on our road over the weekend and no one was willing to step up and take him in. He saught shelter on our out of town neighbors porch for two days before I could lure him over with some puppy kibble and Rocco yesterday. He is adjusting well, but I don't think before yesterday that Merlin had ever been inside a house. We are trying to teach him he will not die walking on the tile floor ;) Today we got a call asking us to take in an adult pitbull who has been roaming and frequenting the local food bank. With a severe winter weather advisory expecting for our area to get 3-6 inches, and Animal Control being more of a death sentence, we couldn't say no. We are on 55 acres...Corrine stays home with the children and animals, we have the space, we have the time, and we have the love to give. However we are a young family of five on one income, building a homestead, feeding not only our human family, but four dogs (five if the stray can be transported to us), and six chickens..with only one income right now which is approx. $26,000 a year, money is tight. We would love to continue to help local animals but the cost of food and vetting are costly. We are hoping to have extra produce, medicinal herbs, and other handmade items for sale by Summer time to help us reach our dream of owning our own land and having a private animal sanctuary, but for now it's really a juggling act. We currently go thru a little over 100 pounds of dog food a month, not including the fresh vegetables and supplements each dog receives. When we had the donkeys we were spending approximately $200 a month on hay and supplies for them. Not including farrier and veterinary expenses. After our lovely friend nudging us in this direction, we have decided to establish a gofundme account for our farm. If you would like to help feed the rescues and cover their routine veterinary costs, dog beds, collars, toys, treats, etc, it would be greatly appreciated. We are doing the best we can to help who we can and would love to not have to turn any animals we can help, away. There are several animals in need and we would love to provide them sanctuary. If you choose to donate, thank you so much. If you are unable to donate, please help us by sharing. Thank you so much.
The Baker Family
Wolf Den Holistic Farm
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