We humans could learn a thing or two from this wonderful dog.

In 2003, police in Warwickshire, England, opened a garden shed and found a whimpering, cowering dog.  It had been locked in the shed and abandoned.  It was dirty and malnourished and had clearly been abused.

In an act of kindness, the police took the dog, which was a Greyhound female, to the nearby Nuneaton Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary, run by a man named Geoff Grewcock and known as a willing haven for animals abandoned, orphaned or otherwise in need.  Geoff and the other sanctuary staff went to work with two aims to restore the dog to full health, and to win her trust.  It took several weeks, but eventually both goals were achieved.

They named her Jasmine, and they started to think about finding her an adoptive home.

But Jasmine had other ideas.  No one remembers how it began, but she started welcoming all animal arrivals at the sanctuary.  It wouldn’t matter if it was a puppy, a fox cub, a rabbit or, any other lost or hurting animal.  Jasmine would peer into the box or cage and, where possible, deliver a welcoming lick.

Geoff relates one of the early incidents.  ”We had two puppies that had been abandoned by a nearby railway line.  One was a Lakeland Terrier cross and another was a Jack Russell Doberman cross.  They were tiny when they arrived at the centre and Jasmine approached them and grabbed one by the scruff of the neck in her mouth and put him on the settee.  Then she fetched the other one and sat down with them, cuddling them.”

“But she is like that with all of our animals, even the rabbits.  She takes all the stress out of them and it helps them to not only feel close to her, but to settle into their new surroundings.  She has done the same with the fox and badger cubs, she licks the rabbits and guinea pigs and even lets the birds perch on the bridge of her nose.”

Jasmine, the timid, abused, deserted waif, became the animal sanctuary’s resident surrogate mother, a role for which she might have been born.  The list of orphaned and abandoned youngsters she has cared for comprises five fox cubs, four badger cubs, 15 chicks, eight guinea pigs, two stray puppies and 15 rabbits.

And one roe deer fawn.  Tiny Bramble, 11 weeks old, was found semi-conscious in a field.  Upon arrival at the sanctuary, Jasmine cuddled up to her to keep her warm, and then went into the full foster mum role.  Jasmine the greyhound showers Bramble the Roe deer with affection and makes sure nothing is matted.

“They are inseparable,” says Geoff.  ”Bramble walks between her legs and they keep kissing each other.  They walk together round the sanctuary.  It’s a real treat to see them.”

Jasmine will continue to care for Bramble until she is old enough to be returned to woodland life.  When that happens, Jasmine will not be lonely.  She will be too busy showering love and affection on the next Orphan or victim of abuse.

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This  dog was born on

Christmas  Eve in the year

2002.

He was born with 2   legs -

He  of course could not walk

when he was born.

Even  his mother did not want him.

His  first owner also did not  think that he could  survive and he was thinking of ‘putting him to   sleep’.

But then, his present owner, Jude Stringfellow, met  him and wanted  to take care of  him.

She  became determined to teach  and train this little  dog to walk by himself..

She  named him  ‘Faith’.

In the beginning, she put Faith on a surfboard to  let him feel the movement.

Later  she used peanut  butter on a spoon as a  lure and reward For him for standing up and jumping around.

Even the other dog at home encouraged him to walk.

Amazingly, only after 6  months, like a miracle,  Faith  learned to balance on his hind legs and to jump to move forward.

After further training in the snow,  he could now walk like a human being.

Faith  loves to walk around  now.
No  matter where he goes, he  attracts people to  him.
He  is fast becoming famous on  the international  scene and
Has  appeared on various  newspapers and TV  shows.

There  is now a book entitled  ‘With a Little Faith’  being published about  him.

His  present owner Jude  Stringfellew has  given  up her teaching post and plans to take  him  around the world To  preach that even without a  perfect body,  one can have a perfect soul’.

In  life there are always  undesirable things, so in  order to feel better

You  just need to look at life  from another  direction.

I  hope this message will bring  fresh new ways of  thinking to everyone

And  that everyone will  appreciate and be thankful  for each beautiful day.

Faith  is the continual  demonstration of the strength  and wonder of life.

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