As you all know, the situation regarding the COVID-19 coronavirus is changing all the time. Just last week, we e-mailed you to say that it was business as usual at our sanctuary in Israel. Since that time, Israeli authorities have sensibly imposed restrictions on travel and we have had to take the precautionary decision to […]
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Although we have over 200 donkeys at our sanctuary in Israel, each one of them is like a family member to us – none more so than Lucy, our very first rescued donkey, who was found at the side of a busy highway 19 years ago. We are very sad to announce that dear Lucy
When the last week of October 2019 began, who’d have thought that two abandoned foals with sad stories would end up making their home at Safe Haven? This is the story of David and Moshe. Late one wet and windy October evening, our sanctuary team received a call from the authorities in Jerusalem to say
In early September 2019, a stranger telephoned late one evening to report a sighting of two injured and bleeding donkeys on open ground between Nablus and Jericho in the Palestinian Territories. Arriving on the scene, our vet Dr Rakan soon realised that horrifically, both animals had been shot. He wasted no time and examined the
One of our donkey family, Marco Polo, was rushed to the vet yesterday with severe colic. Colic is abdominal pain and can be caused by a number of things – in Marco Polo’s case, after a number of tests the vet diagnosed impacted fecal matter which needed an emergency operation to remove. Without this operation,
Donkeys are said to have an extremely good memory, remembering a place they have been or other donkeys they have met 25 years ago. But does anyone really know this for sure? And how does a donkey even demonstrate their ability to recall anything? British charity Safe Haven runs a donkey sanctuary in the north
We are sometimes called upon to rescue unwanted donkeys in the West Bank (Palestinian Territories) and due to the risk of spreading disease, we cannot just pop them into a horsebox and drive them across the border to our sanctuary in Israel. Instead the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture have just very generously agreed that the
Please watch and share our moving 2 minute video which shows what we do and why our work is so vital. Thank you to Fifth Frame, Mike Cooper and Lindsay Morgan for making this film happen, completely free of charge. We are so grateful for your support.
Read a moving account and plea for help with our work with the builder donkeys of the West Bank on the Daily Mail’s website here Please consider making a donation towards our work by clicking the red button on our home page – the donkeys desperately need your help.
Today, our vet Dr Kol Amos visited the sanctuary to make his regular inspection of our donkey family. Dr Amos decided that Mistletoe’s teeth were looking a little overgrown and so he gave them a trim with his electric rasp – quick and painless, especially with the metal gag Mistletoe is wearing to hold her
