Ruby
Born in July 2019, Ruby is a chocolate lab whose family was rescued during a puppy mill bust in Texas. Ruby, her siblings, and her mom were transferred to a rescue organization in Washington. Ruby came with some health issues as a puppy and needed extra care for her first six months but is expected to live a long and happy life making people happy at One Heart Wild.
She is still a bit of a teenager, not following the "stay off" people rules, instead choosing to enthusiastically greet everyone she sees with all of her Labrador bouncy charm. She is the biggest food-hound we have ever known. Unfortunately, or fortunately (depending on whose perspective) many of the One Heart Wild family are willing to share their food with her; chickens, cows, lambs, and some of the horses, but NOT the pigs!
Ruby has spent a lot of time in the schools and will be doing that work with Arrya again in the fall. She is such a lovely addition to the One Heart Wild family.
She is still a bit of a teenager, not following the "stay off" people rules, instead choosing to enthusiastically greet everyone she sees with all of her Labrador bouncy charm. She is the biggest food-hound we have ever known. Unfortunately, or fortunately (depending on whose perspective) many of the One Heart Wild family are willing to share their food with her; chickens, cows, lambs, and some of the horses, but NOT the pigs!
Ruby has spent a lot of time in the schools and will be doing that work with Arrya again in the fall. She is such a lovely addition to the One Heart Wild family.
Arrya
In 2015 a local dog rescue posted the story of a litter of pups and their mom that were rescued from California after being found in a ditch with a deceased adult dog.
The pups were infested with several types of parasites and would not have survived without human intervention. We fostered the pups for several weeks and fell in love with them all. Arrya and her sister stayed in the One Heart Wild family and enjoy several visits each year full of sister love and play.
Arrya has a very maternal side to her, and like Grace did, shows unique patience and kindness towards the small animals and birds. She and Bennie the guinea pig have a special connection. She also has a herding side to her and she is still working on peaceful coexistence with the big animals. She is improving with maturity ... as we all do.
The pups were infested with several types of parasites and would not have survived without human intervention. We fostered the pups for several weeks and fell in love with them all. Arrya and her sister stayed in the One Heart Wild family and enjoy several visits each year full of sister love and play.
Arrya has a very maternal side to her, and like Grace did, shows unique patience and kindness towards the small animals and birds. She and Bennie the guinea pig have a special connection. She also has a herding side to her and she is still working on peaceful coexistence with the big animals. She is improving with maturity ... as we all do.
Our Animals & Empathy elementary program includes the students visiting the Sanctuary at the end of classroom sessions. One of their classroom activities is to write a story about one of the Sanctuary residents they learned about and then read it to them during their field trip. Many children read to the animal whose story touches some aspect of their own (friendship, grief, trauma, healing, hope).
Learning to take the perspective of another and act compassionately is one of the goals of Animals & Empathy. There are no better teachers than our fellow animal and their parallel life stories.
Learning to take the perspective of another and act compassionately is one of the goals of Animals & Empathy. There are no better teachers than our fellow animal and their parallel life stories.
